 Before either Athens or Skopje had officially responded to the proposal, the Athenian daily "Ethnos" published an alleged secret diplomatic correspondence of the U.S. Department of State.The leaked document, originally tagged as classified until 2018, was said to detail a behind-the-scenes deal between Washington and Skopje on the main provisions of the Nimetz proposal as early as July.According to the newspaper, the latest UN-sponsored set of ideas were secretly sketched to please Skopje by the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice three months earlier.