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

This Magic Summary has a special intelligence note added to it, saying: “Germany has for some time looked to Japan to supply some of her edible fats. Earlier messages show that in June, 1941, Japan was purchasing such commodities on behalf of the Germans and shipping them to Germany via the Trans-Siberian Railway.… The statements by von Ribbentrop and Wiehl … are by far the most urgent pleas for these items that Germany has yet made, so far as our material discloses. They may … indicate some change in the situation since last April. At that time an O.S.S. survey stated that the edible fats situation was ‘particularly tight,’ but that Germany was thought to have a sufficient supply to fill the ration requirements from the crop year 1942–3.”