ARMY NOT INFORMED
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OFFICER ACCUSES NAVY (10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. A former officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Clausen, who conducted a private investigation into the Pearl Harbour disaster for the former Secretary for War, Mr. H. L. Stimson, told the Pearl Harbour committee of inquiry that the Navy right up to the last months of the war was not passing on to General MacArthur's headquarters all the information it got from intercepted enemy messages. He said the Navy handled the decoding and decided what messages it thought the ArmV should see. Colonel Clausen said that General MacArthur's intelligence officer. MajorGeneral Willoughby, protested on May 8. 1945. during "the actual fighting in the Philippines that he was having a perplexing problem of getting information from the Navy.
Colonel Clausen tendered General Willoughby's affidavit expressing the opinion that a proper analysis of intercepted messages before the attack on Pearl Harbour would have indicated that the Japanese intended to attack Hawaii.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21947, 15 February 1946, Page 3
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