Monday, April 8, 2013

13-04-09 Wikileaks released Kissinger cables...


Kissinger: The illegal we do immediately; unconstitutional takes longer

WikiLeaks releases 1.7 million archived records from 1970's shedding light on global diplomatic history

By Natasha Lennard
April 08, 2013 "Information Clearing House" -"Salon" -  News organizations around the world who have partnered with Wikileaks over the Kissinger Cables are already digging up a number of significant stories.
The late Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Ghandi may have been a middleman for an arms deal in the 1970s, according to diplomatic cables searched by The Hindu newspaper. Gandhi was employed by Swedish group Saab-Scania to help sell its Viggen fighter jet reportedly because of access to his mother Indira Ghandi  – prime minister at the time. In his press conference Monday, Julian Assange said this revelation is shaking Indian politics, as the Ghandi family still dominates India’s ruling party.
Meanwhile, one cable dated October 18, 1973 sent to Washington by the US embassy to the Vatican reveals that the Vatican once dismissed reports of massacres by Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as “Communist propaganda.”
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