Book description
A study of cryptologic documents dealing with the issue of American pre-knowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack.
Table of contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Background: Interwar U.S. – Japan Relations and Cryptology
- Intercepted Japanese Diplomatic Messages Reveal a Warning System, 19 November – 28 November 1941
- The Hunt for the Winds Execute Message, 28 November – 7 December 1941
-
The Winds Controversy: Myth and Reality
- Captain Laurance F. Safford – In the Eye of the Controversy
- Safford Searches for the Missing Winds Execute Message
- Safford's Detailed Claim about the Winds Execute Message – February 1946
- Safford Tells His Story
- Examining Safford's Version(s) of Events
- The Case of Captain Alwin Kramer's Changing Testimony
- What the Japanese Said about the Winds Execute Message
- What the British and Dutch Radio Monitors Heard
- The Winds Controversy Resurfaces: Ralph Briggs' Claim
- The Winds Execute: The Final Casting
- Afterword: The Winds Message, American Cryptology, and History
- Exhibits
- Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
- Sources and Selected Bibliography
Product information
- Title: West Wind Clear: Cryptology and the Winds Message Controversy--A Documentary History
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2008
- Publisher(s): Center for Cryptologic History, NSA
- ISBN: 01120090001SI
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