Thread by @althecat

Update on the @Wikileaks #CableGate #TPLFTruth project, which is launching today.

The initial focus of work will by US @StateDept cables related to Getachew Asefa/Assefa, long time TPLF spy chief. search.wikileaks.org/?query=Getache…

There are 10 Cables in the #CableGate File and I have started on the most famous of these here >> docs.google.com/document/d/1fJ…

The Google Doc file contains the methodolgy I am following and which I would appreciate crowd sourced assistance with. There are several questions in comments in the file for which it would be useful to have answers. One appears to relate directly to @JoeBiden when he was @VP.

There are reports that he is dead, but there are also reports that he is not dead. And there is also some debate over what he looks like. This story was published when an arrest warrant was issued for him in August 2018. borkena.com/2018/08/21/eth…

He is considered to be one of the masterminds behind the November 3rd attacks on the ENDF forces in Mekelle during which according to two sources an estimated 6000 ENDF personnel were killed. Many of them in their beds as they slept.

The cable provides details a meeting between Assefa and US State Dept. personnel in June 2009. Assefa is quite demanding in this meeting, warning the U.S. to stay away from "Ethiopian Terrorist" organisations.

"Just as Ethiopia would not meet with domestic U.S. insurgent groups, referring to individuals and groups who would conduct bombings of U.S. government offices, abortion clinics and advocates of racial and gender hate...." - Getachew Assefa June 4th 2009.

".... , Ethiopia would not want U.S. officials to meet with Ethiopia's domestic insurgents who bomb and kill Ethiopian officials and citizens." - Getachew Assefa June 4th 2009

"Getachew noted the visit to European Capitals and Washington of ONLF senior leaders and said they met with staffers in the U.S. Vice President's office. The Ambassador said that we had no evidence that a meeting took place with the Vice President's staff.."

As mentioned at the top we have 10 cables to work on initially, from #Cablegate, I am currently working on this one and am requesting assistance from either journalists, or keen researchers observers with the other nine. #TPLFTruth.

This first set of cables will be used as a test bed for our methodology.

Please DM me if you would like to assist and I can provide you with some guidelines and advice on how to proceed.

These cables are extremely rich in information, but for people who are not Ethiopian, hard to interpret.

Sharing the working Google Docs (in view mode) with threads will be I think a good way to gather the context which is needed to report on them.

And part of the idea here is for this information to be made freely available for foreign journalists in threads on twitter which they can then use to complete articles for publication about this material.

/ENDS