WikiLeaks.org began publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables today, the largest set of leaked confidential government documents ever to be released into the public.
The cables, which date from 1966 up until the end of February this year, contain confidential communications between 274 embassies in countries throughout the world and the State Department in Washington DC. 15,652 of the cables are classified Secret.
The full set consists of 251,287 documents, comprising 261,276,536 words (seven times the size of “The Iraq War Logs”, the world’s previously largest classified information release).
The New York Times has a detailed scoop on the contents of the leak.
Secret US Embassy Cables [WikiLeaks]

