Posted on Aug 10, 2022
Remembering CWO4 Ralph T. Briggs, (Ret.), USN
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Ralph T. Briggs, became interested in ham radio when he was a teenager, obtained a radio operator’s license in the early 1930s and joined a Navy communications reserve program.
Briggs entered the Navy in 1934 and went navy boot camp at Great Lakes Naval Training Center. In 1936 he was selected for the Navy’s Communication Intelligence Organization, formally known as Naval Security Group Command, now called Fleet Cyber Command/Commander Tenth Fleet. With over 44 years of combined Navy and Federal Service, he has performed strategic clandestine and overt intelligence and counterintelligence assignments in both domestic and overseas billets, ashore and afloat.
Briggs entered the Navy in 1934 and went navy boot camp at Great Lakes Naval Training Center. In 1936 he was selected for the Navy’s Communication Intelligence Organization, formally known as Naval Security Group Command, now called Fleet Cyber Command/Commander Tenth Fleet. With over 44 years of combined Navy and Federal Service, he has performed strategic clandestine and overt intelligence and counterintelligence assignments in both domestic and overseas billets, ashore and afloat.
Remembering CWO4 Ralph T. Briggs, (Ret.), USN
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WWII World War Two
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Posted 2 y ago
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Post Scripted: In 1977 a navy historian interviewed Briggs. In that interview Briggs stated that while on watch on December 4, 1941 he intercepted a schedule Orange (Japanese) weather broadcast HIGASHI NO KAZEAME, which in Japanese means “East Wind Rain.” The Winds Code was an instruction from Tokyo to Japanese legations worldwide that diplomatic relations were in danger of being ruptured. While the code was probably set up, the problem is whether the code was ever transmitted as claimed by Briggs."...
..."Post Scripted: In 1977 a navy historian interviewed Briggs. In that interview Briggs stated that while on watch on December 4, 1941 he intercepted a schedule Orange (Japanese) weather broadcast HIGASHI NO KAZEAME, which in Japanese means “East Wind Rain.” The Winds Code was an instruction from Tokyo to Japanese legations worldwide that diplomatic relations were in danger of being ruptured. While the code was probably set up, the problem is whether the code was ever transmitted as claimed by Briggs."...
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