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

Alfred McCormack talked with Henry Clausen about the problems that existed in terms of handling Magic material. McCormack found that the messages not considered important were summarily burned. Those that were important were circulated to a tiny group of people in raw, unevaluated form. Declared McCormack in his memo to Carter Clarke: “No personnel were assigned to a continuous study of the material; hence very little could be done to put any of it together in connected form.”