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EVEN as the oily black clouds of destruction mushroomed above the shattered feet at Peari Harbor, a thin spire of gray smoke was rising from tbe yard of the Japanese Consulate in Honolulu. This smoke came from a small fire tended by Consul General Nagao Kita and his Vice Consul, Atojiro Okuda. They were burning the Consu- late's secret code books and the messages which had passed between Kita and Foreign Minister Togo in those last days before treachery reached its faming climax. Nagao Kita. It's a name to remember in the espionage of World War II. If any san can be named as the most effective cnemy agent in the Peari Harbor attack, it was Kita. Behind the curtain of diplo- matic immunity he supplicd Tokyo with a running account of last- minute ship movements in and out of Pearl Harbor. And now that the blow was struck, he was trying to destroy the evidence.. But paper in bulk burns slowly. While the fiames at the Consulate CONTAINED were being fed by Kita and Okuda, Special Agent in Charge Shivers asked the Honolulu Police Department to place a guard at the Consu- late. The guard saw the papers being burned. He rushed in and grabbed a code book and a bundle of messages from the protesting Japanese. The papers werg turned over to Shivers, who gave them to tbe Navy to decode, along with Consulate messages obtained from the commer- INFORMATION 1 cial communications companics---messages which had beea denied to the FBI until thc Japanese struck. When Shivers saw the uncoded messages, he exclaimmed to another F2687 agent, "My God, if we'd had these eartier! Look at this!" And he DATE8-28 handed the messages to the agent: #0245(1)*pA" 3 December, 1941 FROM: POREIGN MNISTER,TO YO (Secret Mititary message No.) (By Chicf of,Coasulate's Code). To: Chief of Third Sectioa, Naval Gencral Staffd From: FUJU Re signals I wish to simplify communications as follows:. I. Code (following 3 section 8 tine table) I. Battle force, including scouting force, are about to put. 2. Several aircraft carrien plan to put to sea.. 3. All battle force has sailed Ist-3rd dates inc. 4. Several aircraft carriers have sailed (lst to 3rd) 5. All aircraft carriers have sailed (Ist to 3rd) 6. All battle force have sailed, 4th-6th dates inc. Bage l9O of "The FBI Story, A Report to ths People" by Don hitehead 65- 15 74 - ENCLOSURA