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WikiLeaks Releases Tens of Thousands of New Classified U.S. Diplomatic Cables

HeadlineAug 26, 2011

The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has announced it is releasing tens of thousands of previously unpublished classified U.S. diplomatic cables. The cables appear to be from a cache of more than 250,000 State Department reports leaked to the group. One of the newly released memos shows that the Obama administration coordinated with the Egyptian government to keep the Gaza border with Egypt closed.

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