[Secret]
From: Tokyo (Togo)
To: Honolulu
November 28, 1941
J 19 (Priority)
#118
Re
your #232 [a],
To
be handled in government code.
Anticipating
the possibility of ordinary telegraphic communication being severed when we are
about to face the worst of situations, these broadcasts are intended to serve
as a means of informing the diplomats in the country concerned of that
situation without the use of the usual telegraphic channels. Do not destroy the
codes without regard to the actual situation in your locality, but retain them
as long as the situation there permits and until the final stage is entered
into.
Army 25859 Trans. 12/7/41 (S)
[a] Not available
[b] S.I.S #25432 in which Tokyo sends a circular giving hidden-meaning words which will be broadcast in the event that code communication is
cut off.
(EXHIBITS OF JOINT COMMITTEE , EXHIBIT NO. 1 INTERCEPTED DIPLOMATIC MESSAGES SENT BY THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT BETWEEN JULY l AND DECEMBER 8, 1941)