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So you’ve been hearing an awful lot about these Wikileaks cables, and you’d love to read some salacious stuff about your government, but the process of rifling through a bajillion pages for a nugget about, say,

So you’ve been hearing an awful lot about these Wikileaks cables, and you’d love to read some salacious stuff about your government, but the process of rifling through a bajillion pages for a nugget about, say, Cuba’s friends in the drug smuggling trade sounds like a lot of work. Well, then you’re in luck, you aspiring journalist/terminally bored internet addict you! Thanks to CableSearch, anyone can easily search the cables. It’s shocking how easily you can turn up dirt: a simple search for “cocaine” returned this cable featuring a Mexican official “who was arrested in October 2007 for attempting to export
840 kilograms of cocaine hidden in frozen fish.” A transexual prostitute makes a cameo in this cable. Try searching for yourself and see what you turn up.

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