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N 191'1 I created the American Black Chamber, the 

official cipher bureau of the United States Government, which solved the secret code and cipher telegrams of foreign governments. I directed its secret 

activities until 1929, when a new Secretary of S*ate, 

being informed of our skill, disapproved of our practices. Thia decision closed the doors of my secret bureau. Du!·il:~ th~:; ilCl1

iJd, fro: .. 1 1917 to 1~29, 1.h."' 'D!ilcl: 

Chamber deciphered oy.er 45,000 diplomatic code and 

·cipher telegrams <Jf" foreliP.i governments, and aolved. the 

code books of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Costa Rica, . Cuba, England, France, Germany, Japan, Liberia, 

lUexico.Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Russia, San Sal\"ador, 

Santo Domingo, So\•iet Union, and Spain. And now that the United States is no longer engaged in this sort of espionage, I am often asked whether such 

countries as England continued after the war to super- vise the diplomatic messages of friendly nations. We are all familiar with the fame of the British nM-al cipher bureau, obtained during the war under the direction of 

Admiral Hall. But did this bureau continue its secret 

acth·itiea after the war? 

On December 16, 1920, this question was asked Indirectly of Newcomb Carlton, president of the Western 

Union Telegraph Company, who was testifying before 

the Senate committee on cable landing licenses. 

" As I recall it," Mr. Carlton said, " after a message bas been in our office in London for, I think, ten days, to 

give it a good start so there cannot be any question about 

ft, that message in its original form-ninety per cent of 

them are in code-is taken to, I think, the British Naval 

Intelligence Bureau. They hold them not more than a fe\V hours, three or four or five, and then return them. 

They do not hold them long enough for anything like 

deciphering. • • ." · The chairman might ha\·e pointed out to llr. Carlton 

that, though it may take se\·eral hours or perhaps weeks or months to decipher a document, onl)" a few .seconds are required to make a phOtostatic cop)". Once the telegrams are phott1stated1 the cr)·ptographers can take their time· 

aoMng them. 

llr. Carlton "·ent on to say that he had in1trueted hi1 

vice president in London not to delh·er the messages, but 

\\"us assured b:r the Ilritish Go,·ernment that the mea- lilaJ!"es would not be deeiphered but that they wanted to 

know who was (.'abling. On Januar)· 10, 1921, l\lr. Carlton was again ques- tioned by the same committee. 

Tm: CUAIUlAN: " llr. Carlton, as I recall It, when you were 011 the stnnd here a couple of weeks ago or so, you 

u1 qlimpse of the 

that <;Joes <9n ~ehina 

By HERBERT 0. 

made the statement that all commercial messages were turned o\·er to the Navy Department of Great Britain, 

but you did not know whether that included government 

messages or not. I would like to know whether that does 

include go\-emment messages or not," 

Mr. Carlton asked to be excused from answering. The 

chairman did not insist, but after taking other teatilDOJIJ' 

he requested an answer. llR. CARLTON: .. I must ft.rat describe what takes place. It appears that the British Government was desirous of 

supervising in and out cable messages to certain European countries in the interest of British peace and quiet. In order to.avoid an appearance of discriminating against 

ou ... 1· Euruv .. an euuntdes, they decided to take charge, physical charge, of all in and out cable messages .from 

e\rery country, aJid they therefore adopted the plan of 

waiting ten days, that is, to give ten days between. the 

handling of message& and the time that the government called at the cable offices for the meBBages. The messages · were then placed in large bags, sealed, I believe, and put in wagons. Those wagons were drawn away under cus- tody of the Admiralty, and lodged overnight in a storehouse and returned to the cable oflice next morning •••• "We have further 

Investigated and are satisfied that during that period not a single message, commer- cial, diplomatic, or otherwise, has been 

actually handled by the Naval IntelHgence Bureau, and 

the contents are un- known to the British 

GoYernment because 

of that fact." 

Just how one would 

go about in\-estisrat- ing what happened to 

the teleirrams during the night Mr. Carlton does not say. Ha,·ing directed the 

secret aetMties of 

the American Black 

Chamber O\"er a pe- riod of twelve years, I ask to be pardoned if I am skeptical:' During the war I v.-as in l.ondon &e\·eral weeks, lltudyingcryp- togrnphy under the 

British and was in a good position to !tnow 

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comes a social secretary. I can- .- much for the story, except that 

weak as a gangster's alibi. The -: Claudette Colbert ls utterly 

here. 

:.1 know that-

.:>ld Lloyd ls at work on a new •• built about a boob who breaks 

::lovie studio? 

and three-star pictures last six nroruhs • •-Street Scene. Bad Girl, Tht 1· 

;: Lieute~nt. Skippy, The Fron 

-The Spider, Waterloo Bridge. 

ast 1'~light. Alexander Hamilton, · as You Feel. The Common Law, I :.. Sporting Blood. Laughini!' Sin· ! 

orbidden Ad,·enture. The llan in ' 

:•Ion. Night Nurse, Smar;t llo~e)'', : .:ind Ten, Chances, Le l\lilhon, ' 

I..ons Legs. AlwayR Goodbre. A 

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something of the espionage methods of the Admiralty cipher bureau. 

Clarence H. l\lacka)·, president of the Postal TelegraphCable Company, testifying before the same committee, 

-~= " Since censorship ceased the British Gcn·ernment . ha\"11 

required us to turn over all messages ten days after they lla\"11 been sent or received. This is a right which they claim under the landing licenses they issue to all cable" companies~" 

Mr. llacksy did not say that the British made no attempt to decipher the messages. 

In any case. membera of our diplomatic corps tell a &turf lluat h1Lrdly tits l11to »Ir. Caricon's pictUl'8. 1'hey 

take it as an aceepted fact that Great Britain attempts to . decipher our messages-take it good-naturedly, as most 

diplomats do. Not long ago a former secretary to the 

American Embassy in London thought he had a huge joke on the British Admiralty cipher bureau when he 

told me the following tale. 

. . ''AS you know," be said, "code words are often garbled in transmission and cannot be deciphered. One day Washington cabled us in London, asking that we confirm 

and repeat several code words in a message that had been 

dispatched a few hours earlier. The original code message 

had been sent to the British authorities for transmission, 

and through an inad\11rtence we had not retained a copy • So "·e telephoned them to return the original at once. E\idently a new clerk answered the telephone, for he re- plied, ' That message isn't here. It's over at the Ad· 

miralty .' " 

The secretary leaned back in his chair and laughed long and loud at this. I thought it amusing myaelf. However, someone must ha\"11 O\"llrheard the new clerk, for 

shortly thereafter he telephoned the embassy to say that 

he was mistaken about the message being at the Admiralty. They had found 

the message anc\ were re· turning it to the embassy. 

" Of course," concluded 

the secretary," what ac- tuall)· happened is that 

they realized the clerk 

had tipped their hands, 

and sent an urgent call to 

the Admiralty to rush the 

telegram back to us." 

E~my. A Conneeticut Yankee. f 

!illionaire, Dirigible. Tahu. Be· """ , ·:!ice Door11. Charlie Chan Carrie!' "! ··' 

But whether Mr. Carlton was O\"llroptimistic or not, the American Black 

Chamber was not so fortunate as to have wagon· loads of code and cipher 

messages delh·ered to it 

under na,·al escort. Our . ranttera ):la)' ~i88,, Dlshonored. l:, '·WC?-=zi11;1Clll~d;·l-~i~·~'•••••• t Parade, Paghacc1. ·· 

cable llnea are not controlled by the go\"llmment, and 

there were therefore periods when it was difficult to 

obtain copies of the telegrams of foreign gcn-ernments. Often it was necessary to resort to dangerous espionage. 

......-In 1927, however, things were running smoothly, when 

suddenly my informant in Washington stopped sending me copies of Japanese code messages, except one now and then. Thia was during the crjsls in China. when 

Washington was especia!J.y concerned about the intentions 

of Japan and England. Back in 1919 I had broken the 

JaP&nese diplomatic codes. From 1919 to 1927 we had 

deciphered something like 10,000 Japanese diplomatic 

messages and broker£ close to thirty different Japanese codes-this, of course, in addition to our other work. 

Japan was one of the few governments that \Vashinirton was interested in at all times. For this reason, aside from 

the Chinese crisis, I wrote my informant after a couple of weeks, asking why be was sending us only a few Japa- nese messages. He replied that on!)· a few ·were being filed with the cable companies in Washington. I doubted 

this and immediately took the midnight to \Vashington, 

.where I questioned him closely. 

"J THINK the Japanese Embassy Is sending its messages in some other manner," he told me. "But in 

order not to arouse suspicion they file a telegram now and then with the cable companies here.'' •• But what of the telegrams the;t· receh-e from Tokyo T n 

I asked • " I have sent you everything, both receh-ed and sent 

cables," he assured me. · "But there ha\·en't been a dozen telegrams In the last 

three weeks," I protested. " During the crisis in China 

there should be a large file.'' 

" I can't help that," he said. " The\" are not being tiled 

here in the name of the Japanese Embassy." I was be\rildered at this information, but a few days later I receh-ed a communication frorir" m)' 8'0\·ernment 

·that seemed to explain the situation. Japan evidentl~· had 

adopted a most amazing and illegal method of sending diplomatic dispatches to and from Tokro and Washington. 

The letter contained se\·eral code telegrams and sheets 

of data, and stated that these had been turned 0\'1!1" to the 

War Department by the coast guard \vhich was intl!rcept- ing n1mrunner wirele11s messages on the Pacific coust. 

The meRl'al!'es had been intercepted on a wa\-e lenirth 

of about fift)·-fh:e meters between 5 and 6 A. l\[., Pacific 

time. They were e\·identJy transmitted on a fixed schedule. for the sending operator ga,·e no call or signature. 

But suddenly, without warning, there flashed "RK3 to 

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RP7.• Then followed raplury &e\.-eral messages with no address or signature. At' the end there \\"as silence for a few seconds, then the other station signaled "RP7 to 

RK3," and followed with a aeries of messages. There waa no acknowJtadgm"nL The air was suddenly still, and not 

until twenty-four hours later would the signals. again be 

heard. 

established communication with Tokro through high. 

frequency transmission. Such a step was illegal, a gra,·e 

bn!ach of international Jaw. . They were, without question, encoded in what we called 

Jbb code, the twenty-eighth Japanese code we had broken 

since my original solution. I at last took the messages 

into the Japanese Department of the Black Chamber, 

BJJd requested my assistants to give me a translation at once. · ln\-estigatfon, so the report said, disclosed the fact that 

the mysterious calls, RP'1 and RKS, were signals for 

am11teur stations. Nothing else was known. 

They told me the telegrams were so badly garbled that 

only phrases here and there could be read, but they were sufficiently clear to sho\'\"· the subject matter, which was T>·ped at the bottom of each message were notes by the the Chinese situation. 

coast guard intercepting operator: This ga\-e us no clue as to their destination, for it la the 

custom of Tokyo to keep all embassies informed on international, questions. The above i1 certain to be coneet ffir the 1ignal1 were ex- ceptionally loud, but the cheek doe1n't agree nor the numben. 

Unable to hear RP7 thi1 watch. THE messages therefore might be from Peiping to The above code groups were intercepted on approximatel1 

fifty metera. Signals barely readable. Station already transmit.ting when tuned in and did not sign call-at end of me .. age. 

Tokyo, or f1-om Tokyo to Washington, London, Paris, or any other post. However, one of the telegrams was not 

encoded in Jbb code, but in Jw, an English-language code 

which the Japanese had compiled for encoding Englisblanguage telegrams. Though badly garbled, the message was without question a memorandum from our Secretary 

of State to the Japanese Foreign Office. It looked to me 

like a Washington-Tokyo telegram. 

RKS sent the ftnt meuage and then 1ipaled " AR," mean- ing" I have finilhed, go ahead." RP7 transmitted, but our station was unable to copy on account of static. RKS then 

1ignaled "AHR," meaning" Another here," and tranamitted 

Part 2 of inclosure, not sending any addreas or 1ignature. 

Be signed off with" NM," meaniq "No more." All this seemed to me conclusive proof that Japan had 

erected a high-frequency sending and receiving set on These two 1tation1 apparently work on fixed schedule 8Vft1 

morning from o A.M. to 6:80 A.M., Pacific coast time. our soil. · The intercepted messages were In ten-letter code 

groups. The following few lines will serve as an example: 

I felt some hesitancy In sending mY deductions to Washington. It might lead to very serious conaequ'8cea. War 

had often been declared for leas. However, there waa 

nothing to do but report my findings. In making DlJ' re- port I urged Washingt.on to attempt to locate the station 

by the use of a radio goniometer, which is an instrument 

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I bad read the report and the operator's comments that shows the direction from which the wave emanates. 

hurriedly without payiq any attention to the cipher mes- Much to my surprise, I was informed that the War Desages. When I looked at them, my heart stood still. Th81 partment equipment for high-frequency Interception was were Japanese diplomatic code messages I Japan had dis- .: not sufficiently mGdern· for: this experiment. 

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Oum)· way back to Ne\V means ot: J!etting posith·e 

stations. For O\-er a year 

prefaced their code telegr: 

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For this rea110n no one con tempt t.o find out what they 

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of the messa1.-e already q1 

groups. Now it suddenly o decipher these groups, and 

the telegrams, I could then 

passing between WashingtA 

ton-Tokyo telegram numbE 

this mysterious intercept, 

Tokyo-Washington, 60. No• 

Reference Code and diacovi 

tion bas a number a great c or 50-say 10 or 200-then 

not a message passing bet• 

On the other hand, if the se 40 or 50, I ha\·e good proof 

tion on our soil. 

THE Congressional Limi1 

delphia when this thou, 

my mind. What had thoae 

gram looked like'! I had l 

Could I decipher them 7 J 

awaited my arrival in New~ 

had unlocked m,· safe and at 

t.opped desk u sbeai" uf ,j 11.~1: 

The. p,rocea Of i!eciph~ 

success proved barren of di· 

cal details. 

Ha,·ing constructed the 

turned to the intercepted m1 

with misgivings. Would m that Japan had erected a" 

States? I began to deci11 

One was enourh. 

FA FE OZ ID 

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telegrams were not Washl1 

ll-ere transmitted bet"-een ; 

intercepted messa1.re just q 

the serial number is 186. 1' 

number for approximately that from Tok,·o to \\'ashi 

that the RK3 arid RP7 "irel 

Washington and Tokyo. I ga,·e a sigh of relief, f cause of a great deal of a ceh·ed my report I think th 

ings that they forgot to ce 

But this did not end th 

that the Japanese Embassy 

less, why were they not fi 

established lines? I went 

determined to find out. \V on whom I had depended 

the whole story: 

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said with a smile. 

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had secret!)• ei:ected a wireless station in the United 

Staled. I was orde1·ed to \\" :111hi11gton at once with instructiom1 to bring the e\"idence on whii:h l baded mr memorandum. Whl·ll I showed them the decipherment nr' 

the English-text tclcg1·nm ant.I explained personally that 

my informant had told me that Lhe Japan<'"t! I::mb11:1sy 110 

longer filed their mes,;ages with the caule ro111pnnies. the)· 

readily ag1·eed with my memo1·andum. '!"he situation 

looked se1·ious indeed. 

On my war back to Xew York I thought of ways and means of getting positi\·e proof of the location of the 

stations. For o~er a yea1· the Tok)"o Go\·ernment had 

prefaced their code teleg1·ams with a series of letters. 

From the text of the telegrams it was clear that the letters had nothing to do with the messages themseh"es. 

For this reason no one considered it wo1'th while to attempt to find out what they meant. 

The first few letters, FAFEOZIDNY VAFEITQUPU, 

of the message already quoted are the indecipherable l'roupa. Now it suddenly occurred to me that if I could .. deeipher these l'roups, and if they gave the number of 

the telel'rams, I could then determine whether they were passinl' between Washinl'ton and Tokyo. The Washing- ton-Tokyo telegram number for February, the date of 

this mysterious intercept, is approximately 40; the 

Tokyo-Washington, 50. Now if I can break the Telegram Reference Code and discover that the telegram in question has a number a l're&t deal larger or smaller than 40 or 50-say 10 or 200-then I am fairly certain th.11t it is 

not a message passing between Washington and Tokyo. On the other hand, if the series number is approximately 

40 or 50, I have good proof that Japan half erected a station on our soil. 

THE Congressional Limited waa pullinl' out of Phila- . , 'delphia when tl,1111. thought~s•tddenly fl.ashed th~ugh 

· mv,mlnd. Wnat had those·fitBI: fP.w letter11-·Af ea~te­ .ram looked likeT . I·had'paid little attention to tliinn. 

Could I deeipher them 7 For two hours I impatiently awaited my arrh·al in New York, and was"not happy until I 

had unlocked my safe and scattered before me on my ftattopped desk a sheaf of Japanese diplomatic code telegrams. 'the process of deciphering was intrieate, and as its success proved barren of direct results, I omit the technical details. 

Having constructed the table to my satisfaction, I 

turned to the intercepted messages between RP7 and RKS 

with misl'ivings. Would my table confirm my deduction 

that Japan had erected a wirelesa station in the United 

States? I began to decipher these groupa of letters. 

One was enough. 

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I now had the answer to my problem. The m)"sterious 

telegrams were not Washington-Tokyo messages. They were transmitted between Japanese posts. Although the 

intercepted message just quoted was sent February 18, 

the serial number is 186. Now the Washington-to-Tokyo number for appro."l:imately the same date is only 40, and 

that from Tokyo to Washington only 50. This is proof 

that the RKS and RP7 \\ireless intercepts are not between 

Washington and Tokyo. I gave a sigh of relief, for I had innocently been the cause of a great deal of anxiety. When Washington re- ceived my report I think they were so relie\·ed at m)" findings that they forgot to censure me for guessing wrong. But this did not end the episode. Now that we knew 

that the Japanese Embassy were not using a prh·ate wireless, wH)" were they not filing their messages with the 

established lines? I went to Washington the next day, determined to find out. When I arrh•ed I called in a man on whom I had depended for information and told him 

the whole story. " Now," I asked, "how do you account for the fact that 

the Japanese Embassy is filing no telegrlllDI?" " M:arbe Blank is putting something o\·er on :t-ou," he 

said with a smile. . "Well, you know more about him than I do. He's your man." 

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Continued from pap (art:r-one 

"No one knows muc:h about him," 

he said. 'Chen," Going to be in town 

!Ong'! .lleet me at the cigar store at 

Sixteenth and Xew York A\·enue at noon. l may ha\·e something then to 

i-eport." 

\\"hen I met him there he seemed 

to think he hat! a good joke on me. 

tained the hope that in tutu~~· a ,•, ,·, , underat11nding and ag1"t.. ·m1·n~ , : .:.1",: 

reached between Japan a11J (i ,.,.~ ! ... ~. 

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and that he thought that insti.:ad nf .,,, ., 

a general unde1·,.tancling it wuuld 1,., 1 .. ~­

ter to ha\'e a frank interchanj!'1: 0£ \"i•·\\ , 

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gan, "that fellow has been 

lying to you. The Japa- (- ~ neae are sending plenty . l 

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in a spirit of coG11l.'ra:i• !1 

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why the first step coulrl not 

be iaken now to begin con- ferences between Japan 

and Creat Britain and tu 

fix a common policy on questions which require.cl 

immediate 150lution, such as 

the question of foreign con- ee11ion1, the question of 

the extent to whleh the IDcalled treaty rights are to 

be abandoned, and other 

similar questions. • • • 

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n1ore applications will completely dis- messages found their f.::,"i,.,~~~-·.;~~ '!live and entirely destroy every single way by devious means !'•l'tllcirU ... 1a1 w...u.. From London 

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the 1calp will 1top instantly and your on March 24 the Chmese s1tuat1on be- On Mq 17th ( T) Arlen called and 

hair will be lustrou1, glouy, ailky and came acute. The Japanese telegrams discussed the Chineae question. • • • soft, and look and feel a hundred timea as deciphered hl us and sent to Wash· Aglen replied that ••• the Minister for 

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They were maneuvering to isolate a joint polie;v could be reached. 

America. Agleri aaid he did not think that it was Paragraphs from a few of the bun· essential for the United States to be lndreds of Japanese telegrams that the eluded and that the only thing to do was Black Chamber deciphered follow: for Japan and the British Empire to 

begin conversations by thmnselves. • • • From Tokyo 

To London llrla;v 14, 192'1. ••• On ?rlay 18th the British Am· 

bassador called upon the Foreia'n Minister. A summary of their Interview 

follows: 

• • • The British Ambassador re- feired to point two of my cablegram 

mentioned above, and said that the British Minister for Foreirn Aft'aira enterBut for the Intercepted Japanese 

wlrele11 messages that led us first to 

suspect a Japanese station on Ameri- can soil, which in turn Jed to the lies 

of my Informant, the Black Chamber 

would not ha\-e come into possession 

of these messages which created such a stir in Washington. 

THE END 

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