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774 <strong>Pearl</strong> <strong>Harbor</strong>: <strong>The</strong> <strong>Seeds</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Fruits</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Infamy</strong><br />

When Kramer appeared before the JCC on February 6, he<br />

acknowledged that the Navy had intercepted the “Pilot Message”<br />

between 7:15 <strong>and</strong> 7:20 a.m. that Saturday morning <strong>and</strong> that it<br />

hadn’t reached the Army, until 12:05 p.m. 149 In any event, Kramer<br />

was “as certain as” he could be “that the fi rst knowledge I had<br />

that the [14-part] Japanese note was being sent to the United<br />

States was around 3 or shortly after 3:00 p.m. Saturday, December<br />

6, 1941.” Although the Army might possibly have delivered the<br />

“Pilot Message” to Kramer’s section earlier in the afternoon, he<br />

had “no recollection <strong>of</strong> seeing that message until later in the<br />

afternoon.” 150<br />

Two days later Kramer changed the story he was telling the<br />

JCC. He said he didn’t believe the “Pilot Message” had been disseminated<br />

Saturday afternoon at all <strong>and</strong> listed it (Navy #7149)<br />

as one <strong>of</strong> several intercepts that were delivered at 10:30 Sunday<br />

morning. 151<br />

I fi nd as a result <strong>of</strong> my study last night [after referring to a<br />

Navy Department fi le] that the pilot message was not disseminated,<br />

at least in the Navy, until Sunday morning subsequent<br />

to 10:00, at the time when the so-called hidden word message<br />

<strong>and</strong> a number <strong>of</strong> other short messages, including the 1:00 message,<br />

were disseminated. 152<br />

When Senator Ferguson asked Kramer:<br />

If you did not know what this pilot message was until 10:30 . . .<br />

on Sunday morning how did you know there was going to be a<br />

fourteenth part? . . . How did you know without the pilot message<br />

that you were going to get an answer to the 26th note?<br />

149Ibid., part 9, pp. 4100–01.<br />

150Ibid., part 8, p. 3898.<br />

151Ibid., part 9, pp. 4017–18.<br />

152Ibid., pp. 4015.

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