Wikileaks publishes 1.7m US diplomatic records

Wikileaks says it has created the world’s largest searchable collection of US diplomatic documents

Wikileaks has published more than 1.7 million US diplomatic and intelligence reports from the 1970s.

They include allegations that former Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi was a middleman in an arms deal and the first impressions of eventual British PM Margaret Thatcher.

The documents have not been leaked and are available to view at the US national archives.

 

https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/?q=&qtfrom=1972-01-01&qtto=1972-12-31

 

 

courtesy: BBC News