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  • When Kisner delivered his intelligence bundle to the basement cryptology center for the Pacific Fleet, he noted that Joseph Rochefort had left.

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

  • Whitlock analyzed the radio direction finder reports obtained by Station CAST, and Kisner analyzed the intercepts obtained by his operators at Station H.

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

  • Kisner did not mention any of the Japanese carriers in the report.

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

  • Kisner said US Navy intelligence knew the ship was a precursor for a future Japanese invasion, for her naval role called for taking soundings and mapping out the Tarawa atoll and other islands in the Gilbert Group.

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

  • The discovery of the two carrier commands was a monumental find, yet neither Kisner nor any of his 65 men nor the remaining hundred-odd intercept operators were ever called before any of the nine Pearl Harbor investigations, including the 1995 probe.

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

  • In interviews with the author in 1988 and 1998, Kisner said his intercept operators rarely missed Japanese naval radio messages.

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

  • β€œIt enabled us to first identify who was bossiest, then who was being bossed,” Kisner said.

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

  • Homer Kisner told the author that bearing locations obtained by the radio direction finder operators were part of the complete intelligence bundle he delivered each day to Station HYPO.

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

  • Kisner accurately identified three areas of potential hostile Japanese action: (1) massing of Japanese warships and aircraft of the Eleventh Air Fleet around the Philippines and Southeast Asia, (2) arrival of the Japanese submarine force, including its commander, at Jaluit in the Marshall Islands, and (3) two identical Tokyo naval broadcasts that were aimed at ships a great distance from Japan.

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

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