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191:" messages were top-secret and circulated only in a very select circle of ten people comprising the General Staffs of the Army and the Navy, the Secretary of War, and the President. No coherent analysis of these messages was done. The warnings that the General Staff sent to Hawaii failed to stress the urgency because MID themselves did not consider the contents of the "Magic" intercepts received prior to the attack as particularly significant at that time. In addition, communication channels in the U.S. military were convoluted due to the split commands of Army and Navy, each with their own intelligence branch, and the last message to Hawaii before the attack was delayed and was decoded at Hawaii only after the attack had already begun. 31: 426:, p. 214: "25 December 1941 ... Amongst the various heads that have been rolled in the dust has been that of General Sherman Miles (U.S. Military Intelligence)... General Raymond Lee (late U.S. Military Attaché in London) has taken Sherman Miles' place." 163:
The MID greatly expanded during his time as G-2, but, as Miles put it, "always in a piecemeal manner". Qualified cryptography personnel were scarce, and Japanese-speaking personnel were also hard to come by. Miles' suggestions to set up an
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Ten days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Miles was sent on an inspection tour through South America to survey installations there and to make recommendations for military assistance to the Latin American countries; Brigadier General
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Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. since its establishment in 1802. Supplement vol. 9 (1940–1950)
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The attack on Pearl Harbor ended Miles' career in the General Staff. MID very much relied on intercepted Japanese radio messages. The decoded "
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in February 1918, then Military Intelligence Division in June 1918) to March 1942. It was preceded by the
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Pearl Harbor attack: Hearings before the Joint Committee on the investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack
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Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
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U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack,
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In March 1942, the Military Intelligence Division was reorganized as the
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and the General Staff Second Division and in 1942 was reorganised as the
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Military intelligence units and formations of the United States Army
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Military intelligence branch of the United States Army (1917-1942).
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A delicate mission: the Washington diaries of R.G. Casey, 1940–42
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Chapter VIII: General Military Relations With Latin America
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United States Navy Communications Intelligence Organization
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service were ignored until June 1941, when U.S. President
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became a senior member of Army Chief of Staff General
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United States Army Intelligence and Security Command
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Index


Branch Insignia
United States Army
United States Department of War
Military Information Division
Military Intelligence Service
Corps of Interpreters
American Expeditionary Force
G-2
Corps of Intelligence Police
Black Chamber
Signal Intelligence Service
Sherman Miles
George C. Marshall
espionage
Franklin D. Roosevelt
William J. Donovan
Coordinator of Information
OSS
Magic
Raymond E. Lee
Military Intelligence Service
Fourth Army Intelligence School
Camp Savage
Alfred McCormack
COMINT
G-2 (intelligence)
Military Intelligence Corps (United States Army)
United States Army Intelligence and Security Command
Office of Naval Intelligence

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