Washington: Unlike in the past, the latest tranche of secret US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks have not been leaked, but have been "legitimately obtained from a US government web site" and released in a user-friendly searchable format. These diplomatic cables about 1.7 million from the period of 1973-76 - now being dubbed as "The Kissinger cable" - were declassified by the US State Department in 2006 and since then have been posted at the website - www.archive.org - of National Archives and Records Administration.
NARA is an independent US state agency charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records. For instance the most talked about cable - 1975NEWDE14031_b, confidential - which refers to Rajiv Gandhi, son of the then Prime Minister, late Indira Gandhi - was declassified on July 6, 2006 and has been parked on the NARA website for years.
"It is basically repackaging of the documents" and putting them into a "nice searchable format", National Security Archive senior analyst William Burr told reporters. "The WikiLeaks press release also asserts that Kissinger authored many of the telegrams but that is an exaggeration because Secretaries of State don't see many of the hundreds of thousands of telegrams that go out under their names," Burr added....
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12:15 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: WikiLeaks returned to haunt the Congress party on Monday which trashed reports claiming that Rajiv Gandhi was a middleman for a Swedish aircraft company before entering politics but the Opposition demanded that the "truth" be made public. The Congress made it clear that the reports had no basis whatsoever, with party general secretary Janardan Dwivedi referring to the last line of the leaked WikiLeaks cable to emphasise that...
08:54 PM, Apr 08, 2013
A never-seen-before interview with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs will premiere next month. In the interview, Jobs speaks about how he pulled off a prank call to the Pope, saying he was US secretary of state Henry Kissinger. Jobs was interviewed by journalist Bob Cringely in 1995 for a Channel 4 series titled "Triumph Of The Nerds", the Daily Mail reported. The Apple founder - who died in October last year...
10:44 AM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: Veteran diplomat Henry Kissinger, the architect of the US' historic opening to China, has denied that that the US struck a secret pact with India to prevent an attack on West Pakistan in 1971. Known in India for unflattering comments on former prime minister Indira Gandhi, he sought to correct the picture, saying he always thought she was "an extremely strong and far-sighted woman". "India and the former...
12:09 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Henry Kissinger spoke exclusively to CNN-IBN on Obama's choice. ...
06:38 PM, Nov 18, 2008
Kolkata: Former India captain Sourav Ganguly on Saturday said VVS Laxman has sent out a loud and clear message to the selectors by deciding to quit international cricket with immediate effect. [Kris] Srikkanth has a big problem in communicating. A player like Laxman would not train so hard just to keep himself fit for two Tests. If they [selectors] had conveyed their opinion to Laxman earlier, this situation would not...
01:03 PM, Jun 17, 2008
Mumbai: Sachin Tendulkar is all set to return to the Test arena after a break of two months but all eyes will be on another veteran VVS Laxman's future when selectors pick the squad for the two-match series against New Zealand starting on August 23. The selectors will also pick the final squad for the World Twenty20 Championship in Sri Lanka in September and Yuvraj Singh, who is training at...
12:26 AM, Jun 15, 2008
Washington's best salespersons are in Delhi talking to everybody who matters. ...
11:11 PM, Oct 30, 2007
"Work on to build national consensus," he assures the USA. ...
09:00 PM, Oct 30, 2007
Mumbai: The International Cricket Council on Wednesday left it to the Indian Cricket Board and its South African counterpart to decide whether to use the highly debated Umpires Decision Review System during the full series in South Africa. The BCCI is still not convinced about the reliability of the technology in the Umpires Decision Review System. We would leave it to the BCCI and Cricket South Africa to come to...
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