I’ve added
the following:
Military Intelligence Code No11 was a
5-letter codebook, printed in 1933. It was enciphered with substitution tables.
Source was
the book ‘The history of codes and
ciphers in the United States during the period between the world wars part ii.
1930-1939’.
Under Military
systems
The Military
Intelligence Code No5 had been printed in 1918, Military Intelligence Code No9
in 1919, Military Intelligence Code No10 in 1927, Military Intelligence Code
No11 in 1933 and Military Intelligence Code No12 in 1935.
The War
Department Confidential Code No1 was introduced in the 1930’s. It was not a new
codebook but rather the old Military Intelligence Code No5, provided with a new
title page and supplement.
It seems
that the War Department Confidential Code No2 also followed this system. According
to a 1943 message of the Japanese military attaché in Hungary the War
Department Confidential Code No2 was the same as the Military Intelligence Code
No12.
Under Diplomatic
and OSS systems
Apart from diplomatic messages their
success against State Department systems also allowed them to read messages of
other US agencies such as the OSS
-Office of Strategic Services Bern station, Military
Attaché in Switzerland. Office
of War Information representative in Switzerland and possibly the
Foreign Economic Administration, War Shipping Administration, Office of
Lend-Lease Administration and the War Refugee Board.
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