EXHIBIT NO. 11 (HART INQUIRY)

TOP SECRET

 
3 December 1941.
From: OPNAV.
Action: CINCAF, CINCPAC, COM 14, COM 16.
Info:
031850.

Highly reliable information has been received that categoric and urgent instructions were sent yesterday to Japanese diplomatic, and consular posts at Hongkong X Singapore X Batavia X Manila X Washington and London to destroy most of their codes and ciphers at once and to burn all other important confidential and secret documents X.

(PROCEEDINGS OF THE HART INQUIRY)