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| | Pearl Harbor Revisited: U.S. Navy Communications Intelligence, 1924-1941 |
 | | Regarding diplomatic communications, General Joseph O. Mauborgne, Chief Signal Officer, U.S. Army, proposed an elaborate study to determine which targets could be heard by the individual stations of each service. |
 | | According to Mauborgne's proposal, responsibility would be assigned according to hearability, frequency, time of day, type of transmission, and, in the case of duplication, preponderance of copy without regard for the underlying value of any intelligence to the intercepting agency. |
 | | Convinced that the OP-20-G work load was already excessive, Safford originated several appeals to Rear Admiral Leigh Noyes, DNC, between July and September concerning the pitfalls of this approach. |
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