Hundreds of thousands of formerly confidential U.S. diplomatic
records from the 1970s, made available by WikiLeaks on Monday, offer
previously unseen insight into the turning points of modern Cambodian
history.
The global anti-secrecy organization launched a database of more than
1.7 million U.S. diplomatic records—relating to U.S. interests in all
parts of the world, called the “Kissinger Cables”—from between 1973 and
1976. The documents date back to Henry Kissinger’s tenure as U.S.
secretary of state, a period in which Cambodia’s civil war concluded
with the sacking of Phnom Penh by Khmer Rouge forces.
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