[Secret]
From: Tokyo
To: Washington
1 December 1941
(Purple)
Circular #2444
The
four offices in London, Hongkong, Singapore and Manila have been instructed to
abandon the use of the code machines and to dispose of them. The machine in
Batavia has been returned to Japan. Regardless of the contents of my Circular
message #2447*, the U. S. (office) retains the machines and the machine codes.
Please
relay to France, Germany, Italy, and Turkey from Switzerland; and to Brazil,
Argentina, and Mexico from Washington.
25606
JD-1: 6984 (D) Navy Trans. 12-1-41 (S-TT)
*Not available.
(EXHIBITS
OF JOINT COMMITTEE , EXHIBIT NO. 1 INTERCEPTED DIPLOMATIC MESSAGES SENT BY THE
JAPANESE GOVERNMENT BETWEEN JULY l AND DECEMBER 8, 1941)