1.   Embassy officials have said that Makharadze, an economics minister, had diplomatic immunity.

2.   Several embassy officials had been arrested for spying.

3.   The delegation registered a formal protest with US embassy officials Wednesday.

4.   The embassy official claimed diplomatic immunity and was later released.

5.   Embassy officials met with the ambassador.

6.   Luckily I mentioned this to an embassy official first.

7.   Local US embassy officials described the coup as the work of disaffected rank-and-file soldiers, who had compelled reluctant senior commanders to participate.

8.   An embassy official said only that the general had already left Beijing for a tour of China.

9.   An embassy official said the apartment of the four men arrested last week seemed to have been used to sell false documents.

10.   An embassy official, Benjamin Zapata, was quoted saying the government would review the matter.