00379              Exhibit 2


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Confidential                  Strictly Confidential stamp

                  P A R A P H R A S E

     The following is the substance of a confidential
telegram (no. 125) dated January 27, 1941, from the
American Embassy in Tokyo:
     Although the following report seemed to the Peruvian
Minister to Japan to be fantastic, he nevertheless re-
peated it to a member of my staff because he had heard
it from so many different sources, including a Japanese
informant.  The report was to the effect that should
"trouble" break out between Japan and the United States
the Japanese intended to make a surprise attack on Pearl
Harbor en masse.  They would employ in this attack their
entire military equipment.










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