WikiLeaks cables: #US agrees to tell #Russia Britain’s nuclear secrets - Telegraph
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A series of classified messages sent to Washington by US negotiators show how information on Britain’s nuclear capability was crucial to securing Russia’s support for the “New #START” deal. (...) The UK refused, but the US agreed to hand over the serial numbers of #Trident #missiles it transfers to Britain.
• America spied on Foreign Office ministers by gathering gossip on their private lives and professional relationships.
• Intelligence-sharing arrangements with the US became strained after the controversy over Binyam Mohamed, the former Guantánamo Bay detainee who sued the Government over his alleged #torture.
• David Miliband disowned the Duchess of York by saying she could not “be controlled” after she made an undercover TV documentary.
• Tens of millions of pounds of overseas aid was stolen and spent on plasma televisions and luxury goods by #corrupt regimes.