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760 Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy
“Winds Execute” and located records proving this. 109 Th e reassurance
Saff ord received from Briggs that a “Winds Execute” had
actually been picked up on December 4, 1941 must have given
him added confi dence in standing up to the vigorous and grueling
cross-examination by some of JCC’s Democratic members.
His determination to learn the truth about Pearl Harbor persisted
for the rest of his life. He worked closely with this author
in trying to follow investigative leads and to explain discrepancies
in some of the testimony.
Saff ord later was recognized for some of his contributions
to cryptography. On February 11, 1946, the Navy Department
awarded him the Legion of Merit “for his work as a cryptographic
expert from March 1942 to September 1945.” 110 In 1958
Congress rewarded him $100,000 for his eff orts in solving foreign
codes and constructing our own codes. 111 And in 1983, a decade
after his death, he was awarded a delayed patent for his invention
that “overcomes jamming of radio communications.” 112
Kramer, U.S. Navy Translator
and Courier, Testifies
On February 6 Captain Alwin Dalton Kramer took the
stand. Forty-two years old and a 1925 graduate of the Annapolis
Naval Academy, Kramer had 21 years in the Navy. He had been
in charge of a section of the Division of Naval Communications,
109See John Toland’s Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath (New York: Berkley
Books, 1983), “Postscript,” section 4, pp. 346–47. Toland reports the recollections
of the Japanese naval attaché in Washington, Captain Yuzuru Sanematsu,
who picked up the “Winds Execute” on December 4, 1941, and those
of assistant attaché, Lieutenant Commander. Yoshimori Terai. See chapter 10,
pp. 228–29.
110Joint Committee, Pearl Harbor Attack, part 9, p. 4344.
111 Washington Star, May 18, 1973.
112 Th e New York Times, August 27, 1983.