Rochefort's Duty Case Summary

As a result, Redman denied many of HYPO’s reports from being sent out to other agencies, finding them suspect. Rochefort became frustrated and began circumventing the system to report directly to Layton in CINCPAC, linking him directly with Nimitz, who was technically outside of his chain of command (Symonds 138). Nimitz had no problem with this, as he put complete faith in Rochefort’s abilities, which proved essential for the case of Midway. In one case, Rochefort’s team was receiving intelligence that the Japanese attack would occur on location “AF”. HYPO had deduced with little doubt that the location was Midway, but for whatever reason Redman refused to share the information with the United States Fleet (COMINCH). Instead, he cautioned