Royals caught in secrets leak: Biggest intelligence leak in history reveals U.S. contempt for world leaders - and concern at Prince Andrew's behaviour


What the cables reveal:
Clinton ordered diplomats to spy on UN - even asking for DNA
Claims of inappropriate behaviour by a member of the British royal family
Chinese operatives waging cyber war on U.S.
The bargains to empty Guantanamo Bay
Arab leaders privately urging an air strike on Iran
Ahmadinejad compared to Hitler
Stand-off with Pakistan over nuclear fuel
Plans for collapse of North Korea
Details of corruption in Afghan government

Sensational claims of ‘inappropriate behaviour’ by Prince Andrew emerged last night in the biggest intelligence leak in history.
Secret U.S. embassy cables are said to show the prince, who is a UK trade envoy, has shocked the Americans with his ‘rude behaviour abroad’.
A Buckingham Palace source said: ‘We are awaiting further detail, as everyone else is.’



Misbehaving? The astonishing claims of Prince Andrew's (left) 'inappropriate behaviour' appeared on Julian Assange's WikiLeaks site. Details of his 'rude behaviour abroad' have yet to be disclosed - the Palace has so far declined to make any official comment


The Palace declined to make any official comment.
America meanwhile has been plunged into an unprecedented diplomatic crisis as its astonishing secret verdicts on Britain and other countries around the world were revealed in the leak.


Most seriously for Washington, they also showed the U.S. had ordered a spying operation on diplomats at the United Nations, including British officials, in apparent breach of international law.
U.S. staff in embassies around the world were ordered by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to obtain frequent flyer numbers, credit card details and even iris scans, fingerprints and DNA of foreign officials.
The whistleblower website Wikileaks ignored a last-minute warning from the Obama administration that going ahead with publication of the first tranche of 250,000 classified documents would put 'many lives at risk'.





This afternoon the Wikileaks website crashed.
In a Twitter statement the organisation said it was suffering a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack - ie an effort to make the site unavailable to users, usually by flooding it with requests for data.
But the damaging disclosures were already being published by international media.
Other disclosures, to be dripped out over a fortnight, include:
Strong criticism of the UK's military operations in Afghanistan
Attacks on both David Cameron and Gordon Brown, who is said to be branded 'unstable'
U.S. requests for specific intelligence on individual MPs
Alleged links between the Russian government and organised crime
Deep concern in Washington and London over the security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme
Strong pressure from the West's Arab allies for a military strike on Iran
Nicolas Sarkozy is called an emperor with no clothes and Vladimir Putin an alpha dog    

Experts warned the revelation of repeated private calls from King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia for the United States to attack Iran to destroy its nuclear programme and 'cut off the head of the snake' risked destablising the Middle East.





President Barack Obama is revealed in one damaging cable as having 'no feelings for Europe' and preferring to 'look East rather than West'.
Others reveal withering assessments of the U.S. of a long list of world leaders.
The U.S. branded France's President Nicola Sarkozy an 'emperor with no clothes' with a 'thin-skinned and authoritarian personal style', Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as an 'alpha dog' and Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as 'Hitler'.


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