With the recent publication of 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain, and of course the Afghan and Iraq War Diaries, Kunstpedia was curious to see if any confidentialities had been published in relation to the fine- and applied arts and cultural heritage in general.

The results, from a perspective of volume, were rather disappointing. On one occasion and antique pistol was confiscated during a friendly action search in Iraq; In Bagdad a raid to detain an Iraqi for stealing  antiquities was successfully carried out and the antiquities were recovered; Guido Westerwelle , currently serving as the Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel, collects paintings from New Leipzig School artists such as Neo Rauch and Tim Eitel and is a fond collector of works by Norbert Bisky and Joerg Immendorff; The uncovering of a plot, which included setting off a bomb planted at the submarine exhibit at the Rahmi Koc Museum in Turkey.