Purple passion

[Forrest B. Snyder, Jr.]

The book "Silent Victory: the History of the US Submarine Service in WW2" gives
due credit to the US codebreaking efforts, particularly the "PURPLE" effort.
 Between the wars, codebreaking was not looked on as an honorable profession
because "Gentlement do not read each other's mail."

This book also reports that indications of the pending attack on Pearl Harbor
were detected and ignored.


Forrest B. Snyder, Jr.
N4UTY
"Sure, it's 1936 technology. But it's GOOD 1936 technology!"
On Sunday, July 05, 1998 3:11 PM, eaj at HIWAAY.NET [SMTP:eaj at HIWAAY.NET] wrote:
> The PURPLE code breaking is rarely mentioned, as the dirty  little
> secret is that it DID reveal the Jap intentions on Pearl Harbor - the
> Naval installation that was deliberately positioned to insult the
> Japanese.  FDR, Churchill, and the other criminals in question had spent
> several months smacking the Japs in the face, in order to get them to
> commit some overt act against the U.S., and get the American people, who
> wisely didn't want into World Woe 2, to rise up in anger.  There's a lot
> more truth here than anyone is likely to be willing to discuss . . .
>         e
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