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xv Acknowledgments I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the assistance of many archivists and librarians whose able support enabled this work to come to fruition. First and foremost is Nathaniel S. Patch, archives specialist with the National Archives and Research Administration (NARA), Archives II, Ref- erence Section, Textual Archives Services Division, who guided me over a series of weeklong visits through the labyrinth of a haphazard and convo- luted filing system that constitutes hundreds, if not thousands, of Hollinger storage boxes that house the estimated half-million or more documents of one sort or another that deal with the years leading up to the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific. With his assistance I was able to screen through and find the key documents and pages that verified that the Imperial Japa- nese Navy had broken its own radio listening silence midway through its maneuvering toward Pearl Harbor during the first few days of December 1941—a critical event that was noted by a number of radio monitoring and intercept sources and duly reported to Office of Naval Intelligence in