Tuesday, November 30, 2010 More than a quarter of leaked Cuba cables from 2009-2010<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/2010/11/most-of-leaked-cuba-cables-are-fresh.html> <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_p0Ky0eMmXNo/TPUXlkUx0yI/AAAAAAAA_cI/BMLN44_Sfls/s1600/usint.jpg> The leaked diplomatic cables originating at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana aren't going to be old news.
The vast majority of the 507 cables listed in a Wikileaks spreadsheet are less than five years old. About 29 percent - or 146 - are from 2009 and 2010. And more than 40 percent - or 204 - were transmitted after Jonathan Farrar <http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/108143.htm> became chief of the Interests Section in July 2008. The age of the cables is important because the newer the document, the more likely it is to stir up new trouble in U.S.-Cuba relations. The documents have not yet been posted on Wikileaks' Cablegate<http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/index.html>site, but a quick analysis of tags in the spreadsheet (see 19-page PDF version<https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxlYXRvbmRvY3VtZW50czF8Z3g6NTM3YWM1YjYwNDk4ZDdh>) shows that major topics of interest are Cuba's political affairs, the country's relations with other countries and human rights. Here's a breakdown of the cables from 2006 to 2010: 2010 - 12 2009 - 134 2008 - 150 2007 - 116 2006 - 79 That totals 491 cables or 97 percent. Here are the years for the remaining 16 cables: 2002 - 1 2001 - 1 1999 - 1 1997 - 1 1996 - 1 1994 - 4 1993 - 1 1992 - 1 1990 - 2 1989 - 1 1988 - 1 1987 - 1 I haven't done an exhaustive analysis of the spreadsheet. But I wanted to get sense for the contents of the documents, so I searched tags to find some of the most common acronyms. Here they are, along with the number of time they are listed: PREL - External political relations - 326 PGOV - Internal governmental affairs - 281 PHUM - Human rights - 266 PNIR - Intelligence - 163 ECON - Economic conditions - 110 Other tags in the documents include: ASEC - Security - 35 PINS - National security - 21 EAID - Foreign economic assistance - 19 EFIN - Financial and monetary affairs - 12 AEMR - Emergency planning and evacuation - 8 OREP - U.S. congressional travel - 7 EINT - Economic and commercial Internet - 4 The tag PTER - Terrorists and terrorism - turns up just 11 times, which is interesting considering that Cuba is on the State Department's list of State Sponsors of Terrorism <http://www.state.gov/s/ct/c14151.htm>. You'd think that number would be higher if Cuba were a hotbed of terrorist activity. The acroynm PROP - Propaganda and psychological operations - gets three mentions; Venezuela gets two. These get one mention each: TINT - Internet technology TBIO - Biological and medical science EINV - Foreign investment OEXC - Educational and cultural exchange opportunities Here's a link to a glossary<https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxlYXRvbmRvY3VtZW50czF8Z3g6MTkwZTQ4MTFhMWQxNTIwYg&pli=1>of acronyms. Some of the tags shown in the Cuba cables aren't listed. I don't know how many of the 251,287 leaked cables relate to Cuba. This seven-page PDF<https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxlYXRvbmRvY3VtZW50czF8Z3g6NzBmYWRmZjhiNjg4YTQ3OQ>listing the leaked cables shows 507 originated from the Interests Section. A separate graph, below, shows that more than 2,000 of the leaked records mention Cuba. Perhaps that number is higher because it includes documents that didn't originate at the Interests Section. I'm sure more of this will become clear as time goes on. <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_p0Ky0eMmXNo/TPTj9QmMYBI/AAAAAAAA_cE/a5aZ1YUgnMw/s1600/cuba-records.jpg> Posted by Tracey Eaton at Tuesday, November 30, 2010<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/2010/11/most-of-leaked-cuba-cables-are-fresh.html> <http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=6569634614488600291&postID=4804421672859913794> <http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6569634614488600291&postID=4804421672859913794> Labels: cuba <http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/search/label/cuba>, wikileaks <http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/search/label/wikileaks> Read more: http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/2010/11/most-of-leaked-cuba-cables-are-fresh.html#ixzz16tpP7sBk [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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