WikiLeaks online repository has 2 mn secret cables from 1970s

BANGALORE, INDIA: WikiLeaks is at it again. Today it published over 1.7 million US diplomatic records from the 1970s, coined the Kissinger Cables. That marks its launch of a new searchable database for all of its released materials, Public Library of US Diplomacy (PlusD).

The database lists the year-wise records from 1970s to 2010 under various classifications like Unclassified, Confidential, Limited official use etc. WikiLeaks estimates that the original PDF files total more than 380GB in size, and include 320,000 originally classified records, 227,000 confidential and 61,000 secret cables, according to The Next Web.

The Kissinger Cables alone comprise more than 1.7 million US diplomatic records for the period from 1973 to 1976. While Cablegate is a set of over 250,000 US diplomatic cables originally published by WikiLeaks from November 2010 and over the following year, the earliest document in Cablegate is from 1966, with the set including documents up to February 2010.

The WikiLeaks PlusD claims to hold the world's largest searchable collection of United States confidential, or formerly confidential, diplomatic communications. As of April 8, 2013, it holds 2 million records comprising approximately 1 billion words.

WikiLeaks' publisher Julian Assange stated: "The collection covers US involvements in, and diplomatic or intelligence reporting on, every country on Earth. It is the single most significant body of geopolitical material ever published."