The following is a declassified Top Secret cipher telegram dated 15 March 1941 from Tokyo about the training of Russian language translators to staff each of Japan’s army companies. The source of the information related in the cable was redacted during the declassification process, as was the pseudonym of Soviet agent who filed the cableContinueContinue reading “March 1941: Every Japanese Military Unit to have its own Russian Translator”
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Prelude to Pearl Harbor: March 1941 – Attacks on UK, US Will Hinge on Japan-USSR Neutrality Pact
The following translation from our “Prelude to Pearl Harbor” series is from a Top Secret letter consolidating information from a series of Tokyo cipher telegrams on how potential actions against England and the USA would depend on a non-aggression pact between Japan and the USSR. The letter, sent from an unnamed Soviet agent in Tokyo,ContinueContinue reading “Prelude to Pearl Harbor: March 1941 – Attacks on UK, US Will Hinge on Japan-USSR Neutrality Pact”
Prelude to Pearl Harbor: Russian Spy Uncovers Japanese Plans to Seize Hawaii as Early as February 1941
The following is a translation of a 14 February 1941 Top Secret intelligence report from People’s Commissar of State Security [NKGB] Merkulov to Stalin, Molotov, and Beria. TOP SECRET 14 February 1941 I am forwarding to you an intelligence message received by the NKGB from Tokyo. Cipher Telegram No. 980/15 dated 12 FebruaryContinueContinue reading “Prelude to Pearl Harbor: Russian Spy Uncovers Japanese Plans to Seize Hawaii as Early as February 1941”
Translating History 