A cable describing the government and style of Yuri M. Luzhkov, then the mayor of Moscow, presented the puzzle. 1 2 3 4 Next Page » Andrew W. Lehren contributed reporting.
The most visible casualty so far could be Gene A. Cretz, the ambassador to Libya, who was recalled from his post last month after his name appeared on a cable describing peculiar personal habits of the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
In a cable describing corruption in Moscow, US diplomats note that Russia's FSB spy agency – former boss Vladimir Putin – offers the best krysha of all, extending its protective arm to Moscow's biggest mafia gang.
That month, CIA headquarters received a cable describing Zubaydah's interrogation as a success and recommended that the "aggressive phase should be used as a template for future interrogation of high value captives".
An Oct. 15, 2009, cable described a delegation of a dozen high-ranking United States officials — including diplomats, Pentagon officials and a Marine Corps major general — who tried to persuade Japan to honor an agreement to keep an American air base on the Japanese island of Okinawa.
A leaked US diplomatic cable described China in Africa as a "pernicious economic competitor with no morals".
A leaked US diplomatic cable described Gen Kheirbek as Syria's "point-man for its relationship with Iran".
A recently leaked 2009 State Department cable described Ben Ali's family as "a mafia-esque elite who have their hands in every cookie jar in the entire economy".
An article last Sunday about the new careers of onetime dot-com employees misidentified the business school of the University of North Carolina, where an associate professor, Daniel Cable, described how such workers had to unlearn their old work habits.
The business secretary, Vince Cable, described it as a disastrous fine.
