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

One of the first such reports is sent in early 1942 by the Japanese attaché in Sofia to the foreign office in Tokyo. Russia is reported to be focusing its attentions more and more on Iran, “overpowering [the] British politically and militarily,” because the British were pulling out their troops for service in India and Africa. The attaché says Russian subversive activity is increasing in Iran, that “the Turks were aware of what was going on, but were not going to publicize it.”