On June 1, 1944, the tireless and always obliging Baron Oshima crafted a message to Tokyo and sent it over the Purple circuit. The encrypted message revealed that Hitler, anticipating an Allied invasion, expected that diversionary landings would take place in Norway and Denmark and on the French Mediterranean coast. Oshima added—and this was crucial; this was exactly what the Allies had hoped—that the Führer expected the real Allied attack, when it came, to come sailing through the Strait of Dover, toward the Pas de Calais.
