The Nation - News from Nov. 18, 1985
A former naval officer apparently denied a medal during his lifetime because of feuding within the intelligence community over the Battle of Midway will be honored posthumously for breaking a key Japanese code during World War II. Capt. Joseph J. Rochefort, who died in 1976, broke the code 43 years ago, when he was serving in a naval intelligence unit at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
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