If you are new to these pages, please read an introduction on the structure of a cable as well as how to discuss them with others. See also the FAQs

Understanding cables
Every cable message consists of three parts:

• The top box shows each cables unique reference number, when and by whom it originally was sent, and what its initial classification was.
• The middle box contains the header information that is associated with the cable. It includes information about the receiver(s) as well as a general subject.
• The bottom box presents the body of the cable. The opening can contain a more specific subject, references to other cables (browse by origin to find them) or additional comment. This is followed by the main contents of the cable: a summary, a collection of specific topics and a comment section.

To understand the justification used for the classification of each cable, please use this WikiSource article as reference.

Discussing cables
If you find meaningful or important information in a cable, please link directly to its unique reference number. Linking to a specific paragraph in the body of a cable is also possible by copying the appropriate link (to be found at theparagraph symbol). Please mark messages for social networking services like Twitter with the hash tags #cablegate and a hash containing the reference ID e.g. #08VLADIVOSTOK68.

P 090721Z JUL 08
FM AMCONSUL VLADIVOSTOK
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 0974
INFO MOSCOW POLITICAL COLLECTIVE
AMCONSUL VLADIVOSTOK

UNCLAS VLADIVOSTOK 000068 
 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PINR RS
SUBJECT: RUSSIAN FAR EAST: CHUKOTKANS WORRY AS THEIR "HERO," 
BILLIONAIRE ROMAN ABRAMOVICH, STEPS DOWN AS GOVERNOR 
 
REF: 2007 VLADIVOSTOK 095 
 
 
¶1.  Summary.  On July 3, Presi...