From: Buenos Aires
To: Panama
23 September 1941
J 19
Circular #146
Buenos Aires to Tokyo #416.
Strictly secret; C. O. R.
When Minister Yamagata*
was in Panama he was asked by the Italian Minister there to deliver some maps
and charts of the Panama Canal Zone for him, which he did. Since then, we had
Usui go to Chile to take charge of those maps and upon their arrival here they
were delivered to the Italian Ambassador. At the same time, we requested that
we be given copies of them.
Recently, these copies
were delivered to us. (At the time of this delivery, Assistant Attache Kameda
and Usua were present to ascertain that they were exact copies of the
originals). And we entrusted them to our Navy's courier Tatuma who is returning
home on the Buenos Aires Maru.
The Italian Ambassador
here requests that upon the arrival of these papers in Tokyo, we notify the
Italian Government to that effect through (our Embassy in Rome?)
Minister Yamagata has
already advised Chief of Bureau Terasaki regarding this matter. The Navy has
also sent a report.
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JD-1: 5970 (D) Navy Trans. 10-22-41 (X)
*Minister to Chile.
(EXHIBITS
OF JOINT COMMITTEE , EXHIBIT NO. 2 JAPANESE MESSAGES CONCERNING MILITARY
INSTALLATIONS, SHIP MOVEMENTS, ETC.)