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Most of
the WikiLeaks cables date from 2004: Report
Sunday November 28, 2010 09:56:40 AM ,
DPA
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Washington/Berlin: The first details of the illicit
publication of US classified diplomatic cables and documents were
leaking Saturday on the internet.
The US State Department was bracing for the publication by
WikiLeaks of millions of confidential messages and reports
sometime in the coming days. Germany's Der Spiegel, London's
Guardian and the US's New York Times were expected to
simultaneously release their stories and links to the documents in
the coming day or so.
The documents are expected to contain classified and embarrassing
details or communications about other countries. They will
represent the third batch of secret US documents posted by the
upstart WikiLeaks organisation.
The German website netzpolitik.org reported Saturday on a brief
posting on Der Spiegel online that hinted at some details of the
WikiLeaks documents. Der Spiegel took the posting down after only
a brief appearance online.
According to the link to the now-disappeared article, the
documents will include 250,000 diplomatic cables sent by US
representatives all over the world to the State Department in
Washington.
Most of the documents were transmitted since 2004, only one
document dates back to 1966, netzpolitik.org reported.
More than 9,000 documents stem from the first two months this
year. Spiegel Online did not comment to DPA on the veracity of
netzpolitik's report or on whether the summary was posted in
error.
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has reached out to
Germany and a handful of other countries to contain the diplomatic
fallout ahead of the WikiLeaks publication, the State Department
said Saturday.
Only a small portion of the documents are classified as secret,
that is, with the second highest secrecy level. An estimated 4,330
documents were so confidential that they were not to have been
made accessible to foreigners.
None of the documents that WikiLeaks obtained were classified as
"top secret", according to the alleged Spiegel report.
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