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Currently 706,740 NARA cables are only available digitally as metadata. The main text content of these cables lies hidden behind a FOIA request.

Using the text search we can look for patterns that reveal the decisions made behind this selective digital record. What is hidden and why?

In the search WikiLeaks made it possible to filter the cables by Origin. This is not just the name of the Embassy or the Department of State but can be a specific Office or Department. A list of known origins is also available.

Filtering by Origin we can clearly see some patterns.

(First number amount listed cables. Second number amount of available cables)

1,534 / 1: Bureau of Politico / Military Affairs 2,519 / 7: Bureau of African Affairs 8,388 / 0: Bureau of Public Affairs 1,892 / 0: Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs 1,858 / 1: Bureau of International Organization Affairs 761 / 1: Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs/Ocean and Fishery Affairs 15,094 2,736 / 0: Office of the Chief of Protocol 2,317 / 0: Office of International Conferences 2,451 / 0: Office of Personnel 213 / 0: Office of Security 7,717 1,566 / 0: Passport Services 350 / 0: Foreign Affairs Document and Reference Center 5442 / 12: National Archives and Records Administration 282 / 0: Pan American Health Organization Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (Paris) Salt Lake City Talks (MBFR) 2,198 498 / 6 Department of Commerce 278 / 0 Department of Health Education and Welfare 671 / 0 Department of Humanitarian Affairs 4,446 / 3 Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs 8,802 / 3 Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs 1,615 / 1 Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research 4,269 / 17 Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs 741 /487 Department of State Secretary of State Aboard Aircraft 21,320

Person as origin: all cables are behind the FOIA wall.

1,484 Schweiker, Richard Schultz 414 Bayh, Birch 349 Beal, J Glenn Jr 219 Bennett, Charles E 498 Bentsen, Lloyd 981 Borg, C Arthur 322 Brooke, Edward W 1,236 Buckley, James L 471 Burgess, Harrison W 588 Case, Clifford P 412 Chiles, Lawton 308 Church, Frank 300 Clark, Dick 1,590 Cranston, Alan M. 520 Davis, Jeanne W 301 Eagleton, Thomas F 200 Fascell, Dante B 518 Ford, Gerald R 232 Fraser, Donald M 334 Glenn, John 296 Goldwater, Barry 662 Griffin, Robert P 257 Habib, Philip C 522 Hart, Philip A 789 Hartman, Arthur Adair 390 Hatfield, Mark O 242 Horton, Frank 262 Hummel, Arthur W Jr 623 Humphrey, Hubert H 1,013 Ingersoll, Robert S 463 Jackson, Henry M. 642 Jackson, Murray E. 2,496 Javits, Jacob K. 523 Jones, Adolph W 1,624 Kennedy, Edward M. 1,425 Kissinger, Henry 300 Leigh, Monroe 267 Long, Russell 610 MCCORD, FRANKLIN O 377 Magnuson, Warren G 399 Malmborg, Knute E 408 Mansfield, Mike 295 Mathias, Charles Mcc Jr 281 McCloskey, Robert J 322 Mondale, Walter F 223 Morgan, Thomas E 203 Nelson, Gaylord 213 Packwood, Robert W 586 Percy, Charles H 288 Proxmire, William 369 Robinson, Charles W 399 Rodino, Peter W Jr 223 Rogers, Paul G 294 Rogers, William D 1,484 Schweiker, Richard Schultz 641 Scott, Hugh 221 Scott, William L 307 Sisco, Joseph J 474 Sparkman, John Jackson 5,384 Springsteen, George S 817 Stevenson, Adlai Ewing 244 Symington, Stuart 223 Taft, Robert Jr 390 Talmadge, Herman E 283 Thurmond, Strom 472 Tower, John G 1,675 Tunney, John Varick 205 Weicker, Lowell P Jr 622 Williams, Harrison A JR 43,005 total sum: 89,334 total hidden: 706,740

Redacted Cables

A last finding. NARA marked 156 manually redacted cables with "Sensitive Information Deleted, NARA 2/23/2006".

The NARA cables made accessible by WikiLeaks contain 151,350 almost empty records. Many however still contain a subject and can be referenced by other cables.

Here is a list of keywords for exclusion to get that list down to ~8,000 hits.

WikiLeaks tries really hard to reinvent itself lately and found the perfect method in heading for the change: the former radical investigative journalism group has a new addition called the Public Library of United States Diplomacy -PLUS D-. This new project aims to take the physical archive of classified/formerly classified documents from all US diplomatic [...]

The post WikiLeaks’ new purpose – digitize all US diplomatic documents appeared first on SecurEncrypt - HIPAA/HITECH File Encryption Software.

WikiLeaks has published more than 1.7m US records covering diplomatic or intelligence reports on every country in the world.

The data, which has not been leaked, comprises diplomatic records from the beginning of 1973 to the end of 1976, covering a variety of diplomatic traffic including cables, intelligence reports and congressional correspondence.

Julian Assange said WikiLeaks had been working for the past year to analyse and assess a vast amount of data held at the US national archives before releasing it in a searchable form.

WikiLeaks has called the collection the Public Library of US Diplomacy (PlusD), describing it as the world’s largest searchable collection of US confidential, or formerly confidential, diplomatic communications.

Assange told Press Association the information showed the vast range and scope of US diplomatic and intelligence activity around the world.

Henry Kissinger was US secretary of state and national security adviser during the period covered by the collection, and many of the reports were written by him or were sent to him. Thousands of the documents are marked NODIS (no distribution) or Eyes Only, as well as cables originally classed as secret or confidential.

Assange said WikiLeaks had undertaken a detailed analysis of the communications, adding that the information eclipsed Cablegate, a set of more than 250,000 US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks from November 2010 and over the following year. He said WikiLeaks had developed sophisticated technical systems to deal with complex and voluminous data.