CONFIDENTIAL

 

WAR DEPARTMENT

WAR DEPARTMENT GENERAL STAFF

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE DIVISION G-2

 

Washington, December 6, 1941.

G-2/CI

JFP

 

Memorandum for Colonel Holbrook:

 

Word has just been received from O. N. I. by telephone to the effect that the Japanese Embassy, in Washington, D. C., was reliably reported to have burned its Code Book and Ciphers last night.

                             

James F. Perry,

JAMES F. PERRY,

1st Lt., Military Intelligence,

Evaluation Subsection.

 (PROCEEDINGS OF CLARKE INVESTIGATION pg. 173)