Another impressive cable was sent on November 17, 2009, by Charles H. Rivkin, US Ambassador to France, regarding the competition between French companies and Boeing for a contract worth tens of billions of dollars to provide advanced fighter planes to Brazil. The authors got it right: French President Nicolas Sarkozy was pulling out all the stops to close the deal, including support for Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on issues of interest to him, and acceptance of technological, legal, and military conditions imposed by Brazil on French firms, mainly the armaments manufacturer Dassault.
另外一份令人印像深刻的电报发送于2009年11月17日，电报作者是美国驻法国大使查尔斯·H·里夫金，这份电报讨论法国企业和波音争夺向巴西出售先进战斗机的价值数百亿美元的合同问题。 作者在电报中写道： 法国总统尼古拉·萨科奇使尽浑身解数力求达成这笔交易，包括在巴西总统路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦感兴趣的问题上为他提供支持，以及接受巴西对法国公司，主要是装备制造企业达索提出的技术、法律和军事条件。