[Travis McGee]

Did you bother to read the article before posting?

Would you have preferred to have lost the "Magic" code breaking advantage, and hence lost (among many battles) the Battle of Midway and WW2 in the Pacific?

[cyborg]

I read the article. You and I have a disagreement. Sorry.

[hoot2]

"Did you bother to read the article before posting?"

that was my thought too?
maybe there is something to that "ozone hole theory"...

[Poodlebrain]

"Would you have preferred to have lost the "Magic" code breaking advantage, and hence lost (among many battles) the Battle of Midway and WW2 in the Pacific?"

That is a BS argument. How would Japanese spies find out about MAGIC when it wasn't even known to military commands below the theater level? Why couldn't the U.S. have been as successful at turning Japanese agents into double agents as the British were with the Germans?

The Battle of Midway was fought in early June 1942. The legislation enabling relocation of Japanese-Americans was passed on Feb. 19, 1942. How many of them were actually relocated before Midway occurred? It's not like the U.S. had the relocation camps prepared and ready upon enactment of the relocatin statute.

As far as compromising MAGIC, the Japanese had to know something was amiss when the U.S. Navy was able to conveniently have all of its available combat power on location to fight the Battle of the Coral Sea and then Midway without sending any significant forces to react to the Japanese diversionary attacks. The enemy guessing correctly twice in a row where to position aircraft carriers in the expanse of the Pacific Ocean would arouse suspicion in even the least competent communications and intelligence officers.