The Kissinger cables[1] are 1.7 million United States diplomatic and intelligence records dating from 1973 to 1976 that had previously been declassified and released by the National Archives and Records Administration[2] and were republished in searchable form by WikiLeaks in April 2013. At the time of the cables, Henry Kissinger was the United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor.[3][4] The cables can be searched using a search engine provided by WikiLeaks at the Public Library of United States Diplomacy, a special page on the WikiLeaks website.[5]
The Kissinger cables revealed that: