But a U.S. government official said the information in thecable offered nothing specific and was just one of hundreds of such reports that the center evaluates daily.
At the time, prosecutors allege, Mrs Heidrun was sitting in her study in front of a wireless transmitter that was receiving encoded messages on a shortwave frequency and was hooked up by cable to a computer, reportsthe German news website Spiegel Online.
After excitable newspaper reports about Vince Cable walking out of the government if reform wasn't implemented quickly, the business secretary and the chancellor were as one on the timetable for reform.