Wikileaks.org which has created an uproar in the US over the release of insider accounts of the war in Afghanistan and now the release of a vast amount of US diplomatic cables says 380 of them pertain to Guyana.
Its website shows 380 documents for Guyana but these have not been uploaded as yet. Several news organizations have been delivered the entire lot and they have been serializing the contents. Some of the ones already reported on pertain to a Saudi demand for the US to root out the Iranian nuclear programme, China growing disaffected with North Korean over its military antics and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton questioning the mental health of Argentinean President Christina Fernandez de Kirchner.
The Wikileaks website said it began on November 28th publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables, “the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain. The documents will give people around the world an unprecedented insight into US Government foreign activities.”
It said that 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. Of these 15,652 of the cables are classified as Secret.
The website said that the embassy cables will be released in stages over the next few months. “The subject matter of these cables is of such importance, and the geographical spread so broad, that to do otherwise would not do this material justice.”
The website said that the cables show the extent of US spying on its allies and the UN; “turning a blind eye to corruption and human rights abuse in “client states”; backroom deals with supposedly neutral countries; lobbying for US corporations; and the measures US diplomats take to advance those who have access to them.”
