The Saudi Cables

Over half a million searchable cables and other documents from the Saudi Foreign Ministry including secret communications from various Saudi Embassies around the world.

Press Release / بيان صحفي / Buying Silence / Press articles

Cables and other documents from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Document Management System for the Saudi Embassies

The Saudi Cables contains scans, emails, pdfs and other documents which were organized in a Document Management Software (DMS) controlled by the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. All documents are stored in named, non-hierarchical folders; folders and documents are assigned to and managed by individual users. The following views facilitate the navigaton through the DMS structure:

FOLDERS – This list shows all named folders, the number of documents contained in that folder, the dates of creation/last modification and the associated folder owner. If you select a folder, all contained documents are shown in a chronological list. Select a document to view its content. If you select the folder owner, you get a list of all documents managed by that user sorted chronologically (see USER).
Note: The DMS does not enforce a name for the folder, so many folders have “Blank Subject” as their title.

USERS – This is a list of all users authorized for the DMS and the number of documents managed by them. You can select a user to see all other documents managed by the selected user in a chronological list. Select a document to view its content. For each document, you can also navigate to the folder that contains the document to see other (related) documents in the same folder (see FOLDER).

If you prefer to browse the raw database instead, which has a lot of other types of information, you can use the links below to browse each table.