The Japanese military attaché is also reporting to Tokyo that the Luftwaffe is developing a new fighter plane, the Messerschmitt 309. (The first hint about this plane’s conception was given eleven months earlier, in the Magic Summary of January 24, 1943.) Although the plans have not yet been perfected, the attaché now recommends that experimental models be purchased by the Japanese Air Force. Tokyo replies by ordering the plans to be purchased and sent via submarine to meet the “present pressing need for a new fighter plane.”
