Japs Interrupted U.S. Intelligence Report
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 The Japanese intercepted an American broadcast on December 6, 1941, revealing the number of battleships, cruisers and destroyers entering or anchored at Pearl Harbour, according to a statement by a Japanese naval intelligence officer, Commander Tomo Tachibana, furnished to the Pearl Harbour inquiry committee by General MacArthur’s headquarters, which interrogated Tachibana. Tachibana added that the Japanese were' fully prepared to attack any ships in or outside the harbour.
Vice-Admiral Wilkinson, former chief ,of naval intelligence, gave evidence that the fleet would have been in greater danger if attacked outside Pearl Harbour or in west coast ports of the United States, because the anti-aircraft protection of those places was not as complete as Pearl Harbour.
He added that the Navy was aware that Japanese agents were active at Hawaii and tried in vain to obtain passage of a law prohibiting the fleet being at Pearl Harbour.
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Northern Advocate, 21 December 1945, Page 5
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