[Secret]
 
From: Tokyo (Togo)
To: Washington 
December 2, 1941 
Purple

 

CORRECTED TRANSLATION
 
#867. (Strictly Secret)
 

 

1. Among the telegraphic codes with which your office is equipped burn all but those now used with the machine and one copy each of "O" code (Oite) and abbreviating code (L). (Burn also the various other codes which you have in your custody.)

 

2. Stop at once using one code machine unit and destroy it completely.

 

3. When you have finished this, wire me back the one word "haruna."

 

4. At the time and in the manner you deem most proper dispose of all files of messages coming and going and all other secret documents.

 

5. Burn all the codes which Telegraphic Official KOSAKA brought you. (Hence, the necessity of getting in contact with Mexico mentioned in my #860 [a] is no longer recognized.)

 
Army 25640                      Translated 12-3-41 (X) Corrected 12-4-41
 
[a] S.I.S. #25550 in which Tokyo wires Washington advising them to have KOSAKA return to Japan on the Tatsuta Maru which sails on the 28th. If this makes it impossible for KOSAKA to make his trip to Mexico, make some other arrangements with regard to KOSAKA's business in Mexico.
 

(EXHIBITS OF JOINT COMMITTEE , EXHIBIT NO. 1 INTERCEPTED DIPLOMATIC MESSAGES SENT BY THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT BETWEEN JULY l AND DECEMBER 8, 1941)