History buffs and conspiracy theorists, rejoice. Thanks to WikiLeaks, millions of U.S. intelligence documents are now available online.

WikiLeaks combined the 250,000 State Department documents it had previously released in 2010 (now called “Cablegate”) with 1.7 million documents from the department’s Henry Kissinger era to launch the Public Library of U.S. Diplomacy (PlusD).

The Kissinger Cables date from Jan. 1, 1973 to Dec. 31, 1976, and include assessments of Vietnam and transcripts from conversations that include classic Kissinger-isms like, “The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer (see screenshot below).”

The government had previously declassified or made publicly available most of the documents included in the Kissinger Cables release, but the diplomatic records were largely in PDF format at the National Archives and Records Administration.

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