The famous whistle blower website WikiLeaks has crossed the mark of 1.7 million United States diplomatic and intelligence reports on every country in the world. Most of the work behind arranging and publishing these sensitive documents was done by Julian Assange, at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he has taken refuge since last summer.
The Ecuadorian Government has given him political asylum as Assange was afraid of being sent to United States if he was extradited to Sweden to face sexual offence charges.
The data contained on the WikiLeaks site shows the “vast range and scope” of US diplomatic records from 1973 to 1976, including cables, intelligence reports and other correspondence and has been termed as Public Library of US Diplomacy (PlusD) by Assange. Most of the reports contained in the PlusD were written by Henry Kissinger.
Mr. Assange said WikiLeaks had undertaken a detailed analysis of the communications, and claimed the information eclipsed Cablegate, a set of more than 250,000 US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks from November 2010 onwards after being anonymously leaked.
The collection published today has not been leaked, but Mr. Assange said WikiLeaks had been working for the past year to analyze a vast data hoard from the US national archives before releasing it in a searchable form.
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