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Originally Posted by turbonium
In his book "Too Late for Pearl Harbor", author Stephen Budiansky (an anti-conspiracist) writes...
"What has not been well established, because of continuing security classification of key documents, is just how much of JN-25 was readable in the critical months before the Pearl Harbor attack."
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This statement does not mean what you think it means. What Budiansky is referring to here is the statement such as "we could read about 10% of JN-25b." This does not mean we could read 10% of the messages. What is means that in any given message we'd be lucky to decode 10% of it. What Budianksy is saying is that the absolute level of comprehension is uncertain. I'm sure he is not claiming that we understood enough pre-war to allow for a warning.
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Last edited by Duane; 13-February-2006 at 10:09 PM..
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