Naval Intellegence knew that the Japanese carriers were on the move, but they thought they were headed for the South Pacific. They dismissed any possible attack on Pearl Harbor, becases at the time it was beleaved that it was unassailable (especially from an air attack).
BTW they broke the Japanese diplomatic code, not their naval codes.
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