Wikileaks Cablegate Release: Wellington Cables On Nukes, Elections, Intelligence & Defence
Secret US State Department cables relating to New Zealand have been released by the Sunday Star Times. Journalist Nicky
Hager has received the 1490 cables sent from the Wellington embassy (analysis of the subject information for those cables here) and leaked to Wikileaks. Today eight of them were released, with analysis.
Full Text Of 8 NZ Wikileaks:Wikileak: Don Brash Resigns; Key Tipped To Take Charge 2006 (06WELLINGTON928)Wikileak: 2008 Election - Focus On Pm Clark And Don Brash (05WELLINGTON696)Wikileak: NZ Media U.S. Visitors Emerge As Media Leaders (06WELLINGTON341)Wikileak: National (McCully) Contemplates End Of Nuke Ban (06WELLINGTON128)Wikileak: NZ Accepts U.S. Proposal On Defense Engagement (08WELLINGTON66)Wikileak: A/S Fort's October 9-10 2008 Visit To NZ (08WELLINGTON356)Wikileak: PM Clark Goes To Washington 3 02 2007 (07WELLINGTON194)Wikileak: Scenesetter For Sec. Clinton's NZ 2010 Visit (10WELLINGTON3)
On the Stuff website:
Danyl McLaughlan of the Dim-Post has split the memos into seperate files and noted their subject and some names mentioned.
Blogger Idiot/Savant of No Right Turn is tweet summaries and comment on these and other cables at @norightturnnz on Twitter.
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Previously from Scoop:
Wikleaks: Clinton Seeks Helen Clark's Frequent Flyer Number (mentions of NZ in the Wikileaks cables)
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