Well now, the Japanese are past masters at it. They’ve got the right mentality for finicky problems in letters and numbers. Since the war, under C.I.A. guidance, they’ve built incredible cracking machines – far ahead of I.B.M. and so forth. And for the last year they’ve been reading the cream of the Soviet traffic from Vladivostok and Oriental Russia – diplomatic, naval, air-force, the lot.’ ‘That’s terrific, sir.’ ‘Terrific for the C.I.A.’ ‘Aren’t they passing it on to us, sir? I thought we were hand in glove with C.I.A. all along the line.’ ‘Not in the Pacific. They regard that as their
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