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604 Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy
Bissell: It went to the fi le immediately.
Gibson: And no fi les were ever destroyed.
Bissell: Not as far as I know. . . .
Gibson: Did you tell Gen. Spaulding [sic] at any time, in substance
that you had destroyed what you would call vital records,
records which if known to exist would be very unpleasant to
the War Department?
Bissell: I did not.
Gibson: Did you ever tell him anything from which he might
infer such?
Bissell: No. 107
Clarke questioned not only Friedman but also the four
army offi cers supposedly implicated—Colonel Otis K. Sadtler,
Brigadier General Isaac Spalding, Major General Ralph C. Smith,
and Brigadier General John T. Bissell. Each in turn denied having
actually seen a possible Winds Code Execute.
Clarke Investigation Part II – Summary
Friedman was told by Sadtler that he remembered hearing
that a Winds Code execute had been received on December 4 or
5 and that it had been destroyed on GCM’s orders. 108 Sadtler told
Friedman he had heard this from Spalding. 109
Sadtler later contradicated this testimony. He said he had
never seen a Winds Code execute himself. 110 He later made “an
107Ibid., pp. 101–02.
108Ibid., pp. 79–81.
109Ibid., p. 81.
110Ibid., p. 80.