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Starting today there will be multi-series postings outlining the Winds Code Message controversy.
The Winds Code Message order was an instruction from Tokyo to Japanese legations worldwide that diplomatic relations were in danger of being ruptured. While the code was set up, the question is whether the code was transmitted as a precursor to war in the Pacific. This is the bases for the following series. The last of the series starting on August 29 disagree with Captain Safford and Mr. Briggs, but, what will be your conclusions when present with testimony?
The following posts will start tomorrow:
August 10: Biography of Mr. Ralph Briggs. Briggs reignited the controversy by stating in a 1977 interview that he intercepted the Winds Code Message while serving as an intercept Morse code operator at Cheltenham, Maryland. Mr. Briggs was born on this date, 1914.
The Winds Code Message order was an instruction from Tokyo to Japanese legations worldwide that diplomatic relations were in danger of being ruptured. While the code was set up, the question is whether the code was transmitted as a precursor to war in the Pacific. This is the bases for the following series. The last of the series starting on August 29 disagree with Captain Safford and Mr. Briggs, but, what will be your conclusions when present with testimony?
The following posts will start tomorrow:
August 10: Biography of Mr. Ralph Briggs. Briggs reignited the controversy by stating in a 1977 interview that he intercepted the Winds Code Message while serving as an intercept Morse code operator at Cheltenham, Maryland. Mr. Briggs was born on this date, 1914.
The Winds Code Controversy (Series)
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Cryptology
WWII World War Two
Japan
Cheltenham
Military History
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."To quote Captain Safford: “There was a winds message. It meant war and we knew it meant war.” Note how LFS called it a “winds message,” not a winds execute. I personally believe that Captain Safford played a major role in the cover-up of Pearl Harbor. Some people, indeed, a number of Pearl Harbor writers, believed Safford was crazy. Safford’s main goal, I believe, was to make it appear that “no one in OPNAV can be trusted.” In other words, the folks in OPNAV, the folks in the War Department, had deliberately or accidentally withheld intelligence from Admiral Kimmel and General Short. It’s my opinion, my belief, that such was not the case.
The shortest possible summation I can give for what Pearl Harbor was: It was the first overt act that would unify our people and bring the United States and its people into the Second World War. This saved millions of lives.
This email was written on the fly after reading your message about the series of articles on the Winds Execute."...
..."To quote Captain Safford: “There was a winds message. It meant war and we knew it meant war.” Note how LFS called it a “winds message,” not a winds execute. I personally believe that Captain Safford played a major role in the cover-up of Pearl Harbor. Some people, indeed, a number of Pearl Harbor writers, believed Safford was crazy. Safford’s main goal, I believe, was to make it appear that “no one in OPNAV can be trusted.” In other words, the folks in OPNAV, the folks in the War Department, had deliberately or accidentally withheld intelligence from Admiral Kimmel and General Short. It’s my opinion, my belief, that such was not the case.
The shortest possible summation I can give for what Pearl Harbor was: It was the first overt act that would unify our people and bring the United States and its people into the Second World War. This saved millions of lives.
This email was written on the fly after reading your message about the series of articles on the Winds Execute."...
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