[Signalman]

I think it was President Wilson who said that Gentlemen don’t spy on Gentlemen.

Actually, it was the Secretary of State, Henry Stimson, who made this comment in 1929 when he found out that the U.S. was engaging in cryptanalysis (breaking codes) of other nations' secret radio transmissions.

As a result, the signal intelligence unit(s)of the US govt. was closed down. But around the time World War II started, it was brought back. That's how, for example, the USN broke the Japanese diplomatic code. Stimson was clearly misguided.

[cgbg]

“the USN broke the Japanese diplomatic code.”

Lol.

The British broke it first (before Pearl Harbor).

Churchill got to decide what we knew and when we knew it.

Think about what that meant.