Hah, this is gonna' be verry interesting. However uninteresting and run-of-the-mill the Kathmandu Embassy papers may be, it's gonna' create ripples, and unlike the Shaktikhor video, or the phone-tape thingie, this one's gonna have solid proof of how those bozos interact with the American embassy. There are 2278 papers, from February 1, 2002 to February 1, 2010.
My guesses on what the Kathmandu papers will probably be about:
1) The US may still have maoists in their terrorists' list, but I suspect there was some kind of cooperation long before 2006. We will get to see exactly what level of cooperation it reached.
2) We know India coordinated with the maoists long before they got mainstream, now we will (hopefully) get to see how close it was exactly, or if not, what the American Embassy thought about the issue.
3) We will get to see the real view Americans' had towards HM Gyanendra. I suspect they approved of him until he started going crazy in 2005-2006.
4) Hopefully, we will get to see the Embassy's views on the high-level corruption that goes inside INGOs and other aid agencies working inside Nepal.
5) I suspect this would need a higher level of confidentiality clearance, but the documents might also have theories about the Royal massacre.
6) The documents will definitely talk about the 2005 fiasco, when HM Gyanendra could not 'give audience' to His Evilness W. Hopefully the teeny-teeny details too. My guess is that the Americans tried to bargain for the meeting, his people tried to gain an upper hand, and ultimately it did not work out.
7) This is improbable, but the uselessness(actually, the harm done by) of Jimmy Carter's election observation.
8) Definitely will have a lot to talk about the CA elections, and the irregularities that took place.
9) Will have a lot about the Maoists winning the CA elections, and the reactions thereof.
10) Will certainly talk a lot about the inter- and intra-party conflicts in Nepali parties and (hopefully) talk about how it could be used for tactical advantage.
....That's all I can think of at the moment.. If you have anything to add to the list, please please post it in the comments, and I will add it here, with due credit to the one who made the suggestion
The theories on Royal Massacre seems to be the most interesting. But, I don't think there would be much talk about Nepal (as in a direct country of strategic importance.) Nepal of course must have been observed through the Indo-China prism. Well, that remains to be seen.
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