Reality is much messier.
The releases are generated by scripts, and the scripts contain bugs that are fixed later, causing minor differences in the html markup or whitespace layout of the published cables. It seems that different (groups of) people work on the release, and synchronisation is not perfect, so that sometimes already released cables disappear, and reappear a few days later. (Also, some cables are released, then redacted, then given in the original form again, then in the same redacted form again.)
Remain the cases where there are actual changes. Below we discuss all changes noticed on the release history page. There pages are compared after the html markup has been stripped, so if others report a difference not reported here, probably it is only a difference in markup and not in cable text.
Today (2011-09-01) there are 2293 changes to discuss. These changes involve 2213 files: some files were changed several times, and hence are mentioned several times in the below. (Of the 251287 files, 2143, 61, 8, 1 were changed 1, 2, 3, 4 times, respectively.) The last week of August 2011 has not been covered, as too many files are involved. Now that the complete unredacted archive is available it is more interesting to compare the final Wikileaks release (cablegate-201108300212.7z) with that archive (cables.csv).
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For example, a batch of 22 for TRIPOLI and DAMASCUS was adding paragraph marks only. For later cables also the removal of a duplicate header is noted here.
A duplicate header was removed in
09SANTIAGO324, 09BEIJING2963, 09ROME97, 09KABUL2246, 10RIYADH182, 09KABUL3890, 05THEHAGUE2599, 05THEHAGUE2855, 06LIMA1247, 04HELSINKI1603, 08HELSINKI374, 04GUATEMALA3270, 08QUITO221, 09QUITO108, 09QUITO1206, 09QUITO1218, 09QUITO122, 09QUITO204, 09QUITO455, 09QUITO510, 09QUITO549, 09QUITO602, 09QUITO818, 09QUITO820, 10QUITO126, 10QUITO9, 05LIMA3434, 04PANAMA2176, 07MEXICO965, 07MEXICO983, 08BOGOTA4036, 03PARIS5741, 05ASUNCION668, 06BRASILIA746, 07MANAGUA2402, 08QUITO216, 09STATE120006
In 08OTTAWA918 by mistake a NYT header was added, and 43 minutes later removed again.
In 09PARIS1097 the typo 'Affairs' was corrected to 'Affaires', and the next day the original text was restored.
In 05DUBLIN107 the original typos 'Hanfin' and 'Christams' were restored.
In 07TELAVIV2652 an 'XXXXX' was introduced to indicate (already present) redaction. (Also the typo 'economicall' was introduced.)
In 10KABUL693 a duplicate header was removed, a paragraph mark added, and moreover 'himself' was changed into 'HIMSLEF' in the Subject line.
In 08STATE93970 the line 'NOTE - DO NOT PUBLISH - AWAITING LEGAL ON MENTION OF PACHAURI' (referring to IPCC Chairman Dr. Rajendra Pachauri) was deleted.
In 07TRIPOLI912 the repeated start of the cable was deleted from the end.
In 08STATE114173 an incorrect paragraph sign was removed, but also the tags 'DA, AF, IZ, MD', a mistake. Later, these tags were restored again, but an incorrect paragraph sign was added in front of A. Carsten Damsgaard's initial.
In 09THEHAGUE399 some duplicate sentences (with duplication indicated by 'Q') were removed.
In 09TRIPOLI306 a SUBJECT: line was added, and also paragraph signs.
In 10WELLINGTON65 'theid:' was corrected to 'the' (and the length of dashed lines was changed). In 97WELLINGTON1656 only the length of dashed lines was changed.
The first release of 07QUITO2008 in reality contained 06QUITO2617 (with the header of 07QUITO2008), the second corrected that.
In 08USNATO265 the signature OLSON was added.
In 05RIODEJANEIRO1238 the signature ATKINS was added.
In 05SANTIAGO1539 doubled quotes "" were replaced by quotes and the signature YAMAUCHI was added.
In 09BRASILIA1428 the signature KUBISKE was added. In 09BRASILIA1460 the signature KUBISKE was added and a separator line "BRASILIA 00001460 003 OF 003" inserted. In 08STOCKHOLM510 the signature SILVERMAN was added. In 05KABUL5181 the signature NEUMANN was added.
A Subject line was added in
02BRASILIA4227, 03BRASILIA698, 03BRASILIA907, 04BRASILIA222, 04BRASILIA2939, 04BRASILIA873, 04BRASILIA913, 05BRASILIA1567, 05BRASILIA2231, 05BRASILIA3124, 05BRASILIA3251, 05BRASILIA715, 06BRASILIA476, 06BRASILIA609, 06SAOPAULO229, 06SAOPAULO316, 06SAOPAULO449, 06SAOPAULO532, 06SAOPAULO689, 06SAOPAULO968, 07SAOPAULO301, 08BRASILIA1253, 08BRASILIA1477, 09BRASILIA1360, 09RIODEJANEIRO363, 09SAOPAULO144, 09SAOPAULO660, 09SAOPAULO663, 09STATE103113, 10BRASILIA33
Separator caption lines like "BRASILIA 00001667 002.2 OF 003" were added in
06BRASILIA1667, 06BRASILIA2002, 06BRASILIA2352, 06BRASILIA678, 06BRASILIA876, 06BRASILIA882, 06SAOPAULO1206, 06SAOPAULO276, 06SAOPAULO332, 07BRASILIA2132, 07BRASILIA277, 07BRASILIA833, 07SAOPAULO250, 07SAOPAULO464, 07SAOPAULO855, 08BRASILIA1378, 08BRASILIA1396, 08BRASILIA1565, 08BRASILIA593, 08BRASILIA640, 08BRASILIA674, 08RECIFE34, 08RIODEJANEIRO19, 08RIODEJANEIRO91, 08SAOPAULO248, 09BRASILIA1142, 09BRASILIA1184, 09BRASILIA1195, 09BRASILIA1210, 09BRASILIA1250, 09BRASILIA1320, 09BRASILIA1338, 09BRASILIA1516, 09BRASILIA201, 09BRASILIA224, 09BRASILIA28, 09BRASILIA34, 09BRASILIA35, 09BRASILIA599, 09BRASILIA791, 09BRASILIA905, 09RIODEJANEIRO353, 09RIODEJANEIRO440, 09SAOPAULO200, 09SAOPAULO317, 09SAOPAULO619, 09STATE100957, 10BRASILIA108, 10BRASILIA140, 10BRASILIA15, 10BRASILIA156, 07PHNOMPENH820, 07PHNOMPENH820, 08PHNOMPENH372, 08PHNOMPENH372, 08DUBLIN237, 08DUBLIN310, 08DUBLIN384, 08DUBLIN577, 09DUBLIN99, 07BRASILIA2132, 06BRASILIA678, 07BEIJING1566, 07BEIJING4010, 07KABUL3932,
Separator caption lines were removed in
09CARACAS1201, 09CARACAS442, 09PARIS1553, 10CARACAS187, 09PARIS1254.In 10CARACAS187 also spurious header material was removed.
In 04BRASILIA2803, 07BRASILIA572, 09STATE97233 a Subject line was added and telephone numbers and/or email addresses were unredacted.
In 08BRASILIA278 a Subject line was added, an email address unredacted, and a header line added and 'Co sorcio' corrected to 'Consorcio'.
In 06BRASILIA861, 06SAOPAULO1197, 06SAOPAULO675, 06SAOPAULO910, 07SAOPAULO1007, 08BRASILIA504, 08BRASILIA672, 08BRASILIA806, 09BRASILIA1042, 09BRASILIA1262, 09BRASILIA953 a Subject line and separator lines like "BRASILIA 00000861 00x OF 004" were added.
In 06BRASILIA971 a Subject line was added and 'starc' was corrected to 'starch'.
In 05BRASILIA2619, 06BRASILIA1618, 06BRASILIA2094, 06BRASILIA2582, 06BRASILIA527, 07BRASILIA1774, 08BRASILIA1102, 08BRASILIA1262, 08STATE58722, 09SAOPAULO310, 09STATE123431, 09STATE3691 telephone numbers and/or email addresses were unredacted.
In 04BOGOTA12829 and 09BRASILIA68 an empty REF: field was added.
In 06BRASILIA2315 an empty SUBJECT: field was added.
In 09BRASILIA1167 a REF: field was added.
In 08MOSCOW2452 a Classified By: field was added.
In 05BRASILIA1067 a lost 8 (closing quote) was restored.
In 05SAOPAULO1158 two lost 8's were restored.
In 09BRASILIA1038 a pair & and 8 (opening and closing quote) was restored.
In 05BRASILIA1207, 08BRASILIA43, 09BRASILIA1540 a spurious date was removed.
In 05BRASILIA2339 a document number was corrected.
In 05BRASILIA2692 a spurious "TIP" was removed.
In 05BRASILIA3116 a spurious "..." was removed.
In 06SAOPAULO1038 a spurious "FEARS" was removed.
In 06SAOPAULO355 a spurious "]" was removed.
In 08BRASILIA236 a spurious "BR, PREL, MARR" was removed.
In 88LONDON16998 a spurious 'x' was removed.
In 06BRASILIA2193 'an' was corrected to 'and'.
In 06BRASILIA2433 'r quire' was corrected to 'require'.
In 06BRASILIA478 'hgh' was corrected to 'high'.
In 08BRASILIA1567 and 08BRASILIA1568 '6(ii)' was corrected to '6(a)(ii)'.
In 08BRASILIA896 'occurr d' was corrected to 'occurred'.
In 09BRASILIA1321 'H1966TECHNOLOGY' was corrected to 'TECHNOLOGY'.
In 09BRASILIA1383 'cmparison' was corrected to 'comparison'.
In 09BRASILIA1412 'M E' was corrected to 'MRE'.
In 09SAOPAULO104, 10BRASILIA55 'CC' was corrected to 'C'.
In 05SANTIAGO1681 'he' was corrected to 'the" and 'the'
and . and ; were added.
In 06MONTEVIDEO419 a comma was deleted.
In 06BRASILIA2245 a spurious "the votes are in." was removed, and this text was added to 06BRASILIA2246.
In 09BRASILIA282 the missing "On February 19," was inserted.
In 06SAOPAULO516 a duplicate line was removed.
A messy version of 07ASUNCION396 was cleaned up.
In 09BISHKEK744 separator lines and a duplicate header were removed, and the Classified By field was completed.
Truncated versions of 09LONDON2198, 10MADRID49, 07BRASILIA2069, 08BRASILIA1356, 09BRASILIA310, 09BRASILIA178, 06KABUL3934 were completed.
Truncated versions of 08BRASILIA1219, 08BRASILIA1572 were completed, and an email address was unredacted.
The cable 06SAOPAULO348 (that had the header of 06SAOPAULO348 but the contents of 06SAOPAULO319) was corrected.
The cable 07BRASILIA382 had 07LIMA632 tacked at the end. Removed.
A slightly damaged version of 08BRASILIA469 was corrected.
The cable 08LAPAZ751 was in reality 08BOGOTA4036. Corrected.
The cable 09BRASILIA1188 was in reality 09BRASILIA679. Corrected.
In 09DOHA691 a duplicate header was removed and names were unredacted.
In 09SAOPAULO487 the trailing text 'Track impresión: asegovia @ Sat Dec 4 19:20:36 2010. Este documento es propiedad de EL PAÍS ID: 187536' was removed.
09KUWAIT110, 10BERLIN180, 10MONTERREY66, 09STATE124636.
In 08OTTAWA918 by mistake a NYT header was added, and 43 minutes later removed again.
In 09PARIS1097 the typo 'Affairs' was corrected to 'Affaires', and the next day the original text was restored.
In 07TELAVIV2652 an 'XXXXX' was introduced to indicate (already present) redaction. (Also the typo 'economicall' was introduced.)
In 10KABUL693 a duplicate header was removed, a paragraph mark added, and moreover 'himself' was changed into 'HIMSLEF' in the Subject line.
In 09STATE15113 some backslashes are added in front of quotes and whitespace is mangled.
In 09TRIPOLI1025 some text was unredacted, but also the tag 'LY' was deleted, a mistake.
In 09BANGKOK1998 a header line 'BANGKOK 00001998 002 OF 004' was deleted.
In 09TELAVIV2502 a header line 'S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 04 TEL AVIV 002502' was deleted.
In 08KYIV2414, 09BAKU687 by mistake the SUBJECT and REF lines were deleted (and some text was unredacted).
In 08STATE114173 an incorrect paragraph sign was removed, but also the tags 'DA, AF, IZ, MD', a mistake. Later, these tags were restored again, but an incorrect paragraph sign was added in front of A. Carsten Damsgaard's initial.
In 08STATE56861 five paragraph signs were removed, and also the tags 'EN, FI, DA', both are mistakes.
In 10ISLAMABAD428 all double quotes were changed into double double quotes, a mistake.
In 05PARIS8057 a comma was added, and the signature was deleted, both mistakes.
In 06WELLINGTON958 the period at the end of a sentence was deleted, a mistake.
In 08TRIPOLI926 a duplicate header and many backslashes were added, both mistakes.
In 10ASTANA267 the cable was replaced by a newspaper article.
In 06DAMASCUS701 a quote was lost.
In 06TAIPEI2921 three header lines "TAIPEI 00002921 nnn OF 004" were deleted. In 06TAIPEI2933, 07MEXICO965, 07MEXICO983, 10KUALALUMPUR12, 09ISLAMABAD177, 09KABUL4070, 10CAIRO119, 08MOSCOW2273, 09MEXICO2473 similar changes occurred. (But e.g. "KABUL 00004070 004 OF 005" and "CAIRO 00000119 003 OF 005" etc. were left.) In 10CAIRO119 also an end-of-sentence period was lost.
In 08SAOPAULO499 a largish section of text was duplicated.
In 10BRASILIA51 a spurious "1. (C)" was inserted.
In 06BOGOTA10691 the second SIPDIS field was removed.
06MOSCOW9533, 10MOSCOW317, 10MOSCOW317, 10KABUL693, 09BAGHDAD3195, 09PARIS1526, 10STATE17263, 07PARIS322, 09BAGHDAD3195, 07MADRID1021, 09MADRID71, 09CASABLANCA226, 06MADRID76, 09CASABLANCA226, 08ASTANA760, 08PARIS1698, 10ASTANA72, 06TUNIS55, 09TRIPOLI1025, 08KYIV2414, 06BERN1867, 05SOFIA1207, 06TASHKENT902, 09SOFIA363, 09SOFIA69, 08LONDON2858, 06BERN141, 08MOSCOW3380, 06PHNOMPENH983, 09BRASILIA1216, 04DUBLIN1739, 05DUBLIN143, 05DUBLIN657, 05DUBLIN936, 05KINGSTON2509.
In the cases of 06TASHKENT902, 06BERN141, 08MOSCOW3380 also an incorrect header and many backslashes were added.
09BEIJING2963, 09ULAANBAATAR234, 10SHENYANG5, 10KABUL693, 10RIYADH182, 09ISLAMABAD3037, 10MOSCOW317, 10COLOMBO32, 07ALGIERS45, 09BEIJING2438, 09BAGHDAD1103, 09ROME97, 10MOSCOW266, 09KABUL2246, 07STATE164120, 09KABUL3890, 10KABUL693, 10STATE17263, 07PARIS322, 09BAKU478, 09ANKARA226, 09BAGHDAD3195, 08ISLAMABAD3418, 09ALGIERS1077, 09RIYADH716, 10RIYADH182, 09TRIPOLI771, 09DAMASCUS880, 09CARACAS728, 09NAIROBI2497, 09RABAT1018, 10HARARE93, 08CASABLANCA104, 10BAKU127, 08OTTAWA918, 08RANGOON749, 07HAVANA258, 07HAVANA258, 09HAVANA726, 09TUNIS372, 05LIMA2158, 08TRIPOLI480, 10ASUNCION97, 07ALGIERS1806, 09ABUJA259, 10TRIPOLI95, 08CAIRO2091, 10CAIRO237, 09CAIRO544, 09CAIRO79, 09BERLIN1162, 08STATE93970, 09STATE68250, 08LONDON1452, 08CAIRO2091, 09LONDON2005, 10LONDON21, 09BAKU695, 10CAIRO145, 08LONDON3215, 09BAKU20, 09CAIRO1468, 08MANAMA592, 09HERMOSILLO71, 09MEXICO3091, 09MEXICO944, 08QUITO248, 09TRIPOLI208.
Several of these have both redactions and unredactions.
For more detail on some of these redactions see here. Many other redactions are very minor, like the deletion of the URL of an embassy's website.
Following instructions from DIA headquarters, USDAO has sent the package via Diplomatic Pouch to Aberdeen Proving Grounds, through DIA, 3100 Clarendon, Arlington, VA.the address was redacted.