Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-06-11 | Page 5 | Book by Former Head of U. S. 'Black Chamber' Tells of Alleged Plot of Allies to Poison Woodrow Wilson

s h fc k by Former Head of U. U S. S Black Blackd k d Chamber amber Tells of Alleged Plot of Allies to Poison Woodrow Wilson It Jor or Yardley Says Decoded Told of Plan Message age During Peace Parley tt YORK ORK June 11 An CUP al al- by the al allied tied powers to kill kUl riot plot td by means of a a. slow I. I Wilson f while hUe he was attending the theD D conference ence Is detailed by peate 1113 P In hIs book Herbert O. O s 's Black Chamber chamb r r pu pub bm Bobbs com com- t today qty by T. T It y ey who was VIas in charge J American cryptographic J the go tiring during the a war ar asserts that message fell into his hands I with the peace nIt ns nI h be disclosed Ion WOD in Paris Pads which He g goes coes so EO far as to int Inthe In- In t e 1 that t tt the pr presidents president's death t the result oft of years t ad may well welt appreciate ocY I received as I 1 deciphered t entente KS m which bleh reported an 1 President WiL Wilson Wilton Wilsona n t 10 0 by a slow poi poJ I A d vin g him influenza in ice inform inform- writes Our lour had the greatest whom n we ant ma begged the authorities to toi president i 1 h Nile hive n no way of knowing the plot had any truth in w tot tad and U it it had whether it suc sue f I M. M But there are these undo unde- President dent Wilsons Wilson's first jl l of occurred while he was m Ice Park Paris and he was soon to die a aI I ng death eath General Pe ton G. G March chief of staff of the army at the time tad d others othera ba bae have e avowed they never tart d of suds 1 a plot w Miter yardley Yardley's s book is the first to renal the Inner workings v of the dumber which oper operated d se- se attly decoding confidential mes mes- between representatives of or for for- p powers ers From 1917 to 1929 1999 the plod of its existence the chamber Scaled td such messages Yard Yard- tes The Tte success of the American dolea dele dele- a to the Washington rat nt conference headed by Secretory Secre Secre- tory iN o of State Hughes Yardley attrib I ate z to the fact fut that the American l tt were able to read at break- break 1 t test tut the secret cret coded messages which between the foreign deleand dele dele- oat and their home govern govern- 15 INFORMED D With Win this Information In its I he writes Elites the American If It cared to take ad of It could not lose All It need needed to do was Vias to mark time Stud poW pout Is not DOt a a. very difficult game titer liter 11 you see tC J your our opponents opponent's hole card art artHis His ms work ork In conne connection with this w ud other activities brought Ma Major or the distinguished se service ce from the secretary of war to pinned the medal on my lapel The for forthe forthe forthe ml tat ed at me reason the could not be made public tot reasons Major Yardley end and the citation therefore was tT a generalization of ot statements hid had no real bearing on the ac ac- w situation In describing the activities of ot the b ru u which he h headed Major how the safe of a forn for for- ela n minister r was vas opened and his teem code book photographed how ft r beautiful girl was directed to become become be be- come conee friendly with a 8 secretary of a embassy and to learn leam the nature na ture th code book how foreign spies made St St. Patricks Patrick's cathedral a ren ren- ou dm-ou during the war ar period and hOW the general genera rushed to retch rech the th president when hen the black succeeded in decoding a 8 sensational telegram between the representatives of ot a foreign power CHAMBER ENDED Major Yardley says the black chamber died suddenly and sWiftly s In 1923 1929 when a a. new secretary of state sUite took office This secretary of state he writes held that it was vas unethical for this country to seek the secrets transmitted d in foreign diplomatic messages Although well a aware arc that all alj great powers have ha their black chamber chamber cham chain ber Major Yardley asserts he he was the tho first diplomatist who had the courage courage or or was it to naivette-to to an an- announce pounce that diplomatic correspondence correspond correspond- ence must be inviolate