Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan

by Bruce Lee

At the time, it matters not to Stimson that this so-called Black Chamber was originally created by the U.S. Army, and to hide its operations that the Army slipped the Black Chamber into the State Department’s budget (only $40,000 per year), or that the information the Black Chamber produces guarantees the supremacy of U.S. Navy battleships in the Pacific for twenty-odd years. What matters to Wall Street lawyer Stimson is that the Black Chamber, by God, is damnably unethical.