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Joint Congressional Committee, Pearl Harbor Attack: Part 3 767
Keefe: Yes. Now, I want to understand what your testimony is
today. Am I correct in the assumption that according to your
present, or what you have referred to many times as your current,
recollection after being refreshed, you are not able to tell this
committee what words were in that coded execute message?
Kramer: My present belief and conviction is that piece of teletype
referred to one country and that country was England. . . .
“Nishi No Kaze Hare.”. . .
Keefe: I asked you the simple question as to whether the statement
which you made, which I have read to you, the answers
that you gave in response to those questions was the truth. Was
it or wasn’t it?
Kramer: [I]t was not the whole truth as I see it now, inasmuch
as there was no reference in that answer to any handwriting [on
the teletype message]. 137
Keefe then turned Kramer’s attention to his mid-1945 testimony
before Hewitt. Concerning the “Winds Execute,” Kramer
had said at that time:
Kramer: It may have been “Higashi no kaze ame,” specifi cally
referring to the United States, as I have previously testifi ed at
Pearl Harbor, but I am less positive of that now than I believe
I was at that time. Th e reason for revision in my view on that
is the fact that in thinking it over, I have a rather sharp recollection
in the latter part of that week of feeling that there was
still no overt mention or specifi c mention of the United States
in any of this traffi c, which I was seeing all of and which also
was the only source in general of my information since I did
not see, as a rule, the dispatches from the fl eet commanders or
going out to them from Operations. 138
137Ibid., pp. 4131–32.
138Ibid., pp. 4133–35.