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"Vatican, Israel, North Korea on WikiLeaks' list"

A journalist working closely with WikiLeaks says that secret documents about the Vatican and the volatile territories of North Korea and Israel are to be made public in the coming weeks.

By Roland Hancock 8:01PM GMT 29 Nov 2010

James Ball said in an interview filmed for Telegraph TV that with only a fraction of the 250,000 papers held by the site so far released, journalists across the world will be kept busy for months by the revelations.

The response to the just over 200 documents already made public has been phenomenal, he said, with 5.7 million people accessing the site in the last 24 hours.

The first tranche of more than 250,000 classified cables released by the WikiLeaks site says American officials were also told to spy on the United Nations' leadership and get biometric information on its secretary general Ban Ki-moon.

The cables detail claims of inappropriate behaviour by a member of the Royal family and criticism of Britain's military operations in Afghanistan and David Cameron.

The cables include requests for "specific intelligence" about British MPs. The communiques last night threatened a global diplomatic crisis and put America's relations with Europe and the Middle East under a cloud.

The leaked memos also disclose how American diplomats compared Iran's President Ahmedinejad with Adolf Hitler and labelled France's President Nicolas Sarkozy as the "emperor with no clothes".

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel was depicted as "risk aversive", while the Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin was an "alpha dog". Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai was "driven by paranoia". The unguarded comments were contained in the classified cables from US embassies, details of which were published by several newspapers on the internet last night. Some of the cables were sent as recently as last February.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...eaks-list.html

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