The release on Monday, also known as the "Public Library of US Diplomacy" or "Plus D", include classified and declassified documents from US diplomatic history, Al Jazeera and The Guardian report.
The new records, dating from 1973 to 1976, include many communications which were sent by or to former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger and have also been dubbed as ''The Kissinger cables''.
The website's Australian founder, Julian Assange, warned about the release earlier today.
The website has collated a variety of records including cables, intelligence reports and congressional correspondence and is releasing them in a searchable form, he said.
Assange has carried out much of the work from his refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London and told the Press Association that the records highlighted the "vast range and scope" of US influence around the world.
The Australian has been holed up in the tiny diplomatic mission for nine months as he seeks to avoid extradition to Sweden over allegations of rape and sexual assault, which he denies.
WikiLeaks sent shockwaves around the diplomatic world in 2010 when it released a set of more than 250,000 leaked US cables.
Many of the documents, which WikiLeaks has called the Public Library of US Diplomacy (PlusD), are marked NODIS (no distribution) or Eyes Only, while others were originally marked as secret.
Assange said WikiLeaks had undertaken a detailed analysis of the communications, adding that the information eclipsed Cablegate, a set of more than 250,000 US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks from November 2010 and over the following year.
Assange fled to the Ecuadorian embassy in June after losing his battle in the British courts against extradition to Sweden.
Ecuador granted him asylum in August but Britain has refused to allow him safe passage out of the country, sparking a diplomatic stalemate.
Assange founded the WikiLeaks website that enraged Washington by releasing cables and war logs relating to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in one of the biggest security breach in US history.
news.com.au 8 Apr 2013
Governments react with an aggressive force against those who expose their illegal and criminal activities, as in the widely publicised case of Julian Assange.
Instead of focusing on the evidence in the exposed documents, and charging the relevant people, the target becomes the postman (Julian Assange).
In order to incarcerate the individual for the exposure, another 'alleged' matter is of concern that cannot be ignored, as rape is a serious and violent offence against women, which has support of the entire masses.
Actions of a corrupt legal system in full swing.
The alleged allegations of Assange's rape have already been dismissed in Sweden.
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