WORLD WAR II MAGIC:
The Chicago Tribune, Midway, and MAGIC
The American success in the Battle of Midway (3-6 June 1942), the turning point in the naval war in the Pacific, is attributable in large part to the U.S. Navy's advance knowledge of Japanese plans. That knowledge came from communications intercepts and cryptanalysis (MAGIC). Soon after the Battle of Midway, the Chicago Tribune reported that U.S. naval intelligence knew the Japanese navy's plans, strength, and dispositions prior to the battle. As Holmes put it in Double-Edged Secrets, "[a]ny informed reader could only conclude that Japanese codes has been broken." (p. 107) The compromise of the security around MAGIC and the failed effort to hold the newspaper and journalist Stanley Johnson accountable is the focus of the material included here.
Check out the links on this article -- they list some papers that discuss whether the reporters and editors committed treason.
It is more than just a little important to fully grasp the degree to which the stockholm syndrome also plays a part in the lefts collaboration. Their positions are a reflection of both grasping for power and their personal cowardice.
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Not to defend the Tribune, but could spies or moles have accounted for that knowledge (in principle) just as effectively?
Cheers!
...and Merry Christmas!
Isn't history fascinating? There's truly nothing new under the sun- especially with the MSM.
You might be interested to know that the Jappanese apprently did not pick up on this story or the Congressman's comments. Though they did change their codes shortly after Midway, it was a routine change of unit designations and routing names- not something that significantly indicated they knew we were reading their codes.