Diplomacy

Diplomatic Records

First published 8 April 2013 · US Department of State; Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs · 2 releases

The diplomacy of two states: 1.7 million declassified US State Department records from 1973 to 1976, and cables from Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry.

Overview

The Kissinger Cables, launched in April 2013 as part of our Public Library of US Diplomacy: more than 1.7 million US diplomatic records from 1973 to 1976. Not leaked. Declassified National Archives records that we turned into a single searchable database.

The Saudi Cables, from June 2015: cables, reports and emails from the Kingdom's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We did not name our source. The ministry had admitted a breach of its networks a month earlier, and the Saudi government urged citizens not to share the documents.

What reporting revealed

The Kissinger Cables: 1.7 million records from 1973 to 1976, 205,901 of them involving Henry Kissinger.
They came from declassified State Department files at the National Archives, not from a leak.
Our Saudi Cables database lists 122,619 published documents from a cache of more than half a million.
A Saudi foreign ministry spokesman said many of the documents had been fabricated.
Cables suggested UK–Saudi vote-trading for the 2013 UN Human Rights Council elections.

Collection record

First published	8 April 2013
Institution	US Department of State; Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Scope	2 releases
Material dated	1973–1976 (US records); Saudi records up to 2015
Media partners	Fairfax Media (The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald), Página/12, Pública, Bivol, Al Masry Al Youm, Ta Nea, Plaza Pública, Haïti Liberté, The Hindu, L'Espresso, La Repubblica, Al Akhbar, La Jornada, Público, Aftonbladet, Press Association, Associated Press, The Nation, Mada Masr, The Saturday Paper, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Reporters Without Borders

Original publication »wikileaks.org

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Catalogue records

Entries describing the release and related documents, with provenance and sources.

Published	Cat. no.	Title	Type
2015-06-19	FAN-0023	The Saudi Cables Cables, reports and emails from Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry, which I published in tranches from June 2015; 122,619 documents have been released from a cache we put at over half a million.	Diplomatic cables
2013-04-08	FAN-0020	The Kissinger Cables (PlusD) More than 1.7 million US diplomatic records from 1973–1976, drawn from declassified State Department files at the US National Archives and which I republished through WikiLeaks as a searchable database.	Diplomatic cables

Source

Diplomatic Records — original release — wikileaks.org (Original publication)wikileaks.org