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Joint Congressional Committee, Pearl Harbor Attack: Part 3 803
At the JCC, he changed the sequence of his deliveries slightly,
saying that after delivering fi rst to CNO Stark, he had delivered
it secondly to Knox at the State Department and then fi nally to
the White House. 236
When Kramer testifi ed before the JCC about delivering
the “One p.m. Message” to Navy Secretary Knox at the State
Department, where Knox was still meeting with Secretary of
State Hull, he said that before the folder was taken in to Mr.
Hull “there was a brief conversation . . . pointing out the tie-up of
the time 1:00 Washington, with the situation in the Southwest
Pacifi c.” Kramer had talked with one of Mr. Hull’s private secretaries
about that, also with the Army courier, he thought it could
have been Bratton who was there at the time making delivery to
Secretaries Hull and Stimson. 237
Saff ord had told the NCI that when Kramer made delivery
to Knox at the State Department on Sunday morning, December
7, Kramer had sent a note via Knox’s personal aide, a foreign service
offi cer, “saying in eff ect, that this means a sunrise attack on
Pearl Harbor today and possibly a midnight attack on Manila.” 238
the attention of Mr. Knox” through a State Department Foreign
Service Offi cer who regularly handled this material for Mr. Hull “the
implications of the times.” 1300 Washington time was 7:30 at Pearl
Harbor and a few hours before sunrise at Kota Bharu, where the Japanese
appeared to be heading.
236Ibid., part 8, pp. 3909–12. Kramer testimony:
Kramer told the JCC (part 8, pp. 3910–12) that he had delivered
the “One p.m. Message” to (1) the State Department where he had
“most emphatically not” spoken with Knox, (2) the White House, and
then (3) back to the Navy Department.
237Ibid., part 8, pp. 3910, 3912. Kramer testimony.
238Ibid., part 9, p. 4180. Excerpt reprinted from Saff ord NCI testimony.
Ibid., part 9, p. 3909. Kramer testimony:
Kramer: I stopped off at Admiral Stark’s offi ce [Stark was in his
offi ce; it was between 10:30 and 10:35]. . . . Th e offi ce door was closed.
. . . Word was sent in . . . that I had something for him. My impressions