Diplomatic Cable Archive & Search

Diplomatic Cable Archive & Search indexes decades of diplomatic reporting so officers can search by meaning as well as by keyword, and find earlier cables, memoranda and reporting on a country, issue or negotiation. Every document carries its classification, caveats and handling markings, and search results are filtered by each user's clearance and need to know before anything is shown. Summaries and suggested related documents cite their sources, and every search and view is recorded for records and security staff.

The problem it solves

Foreign affairs agencies hold decades of cables and reporting that bear directly on current decisions, but much of it is hard to find. Older holdings sit in separate archives with inconsistent metadata, keyword search misses documents that describe the same issue in different words, and officers often rely on colleagues' memory of what was reported before. Access rules make this harder: a search tool that ignores classification, caveats and need to know cannot be used, and one that applies them inconsistently creates risk.

Who it’s for

• Foreign affairs agencies and their regional and functional bureaus
• Desk officers, analysts and policy staff who need historical context
• Records management and historian offices that maintain the archive
• Information security and classification management staff
• Inspectors general and oversight staff who review access

1. IngestCables and related documents are loaded from existing archives with their markings, metadata and dates, and checked before they become searchable.
2. SearchOfficers search by keyword, by meaning, or by country, post, subject and date. Access rules are applied before results are returned, so documents a user is not entitled to see are not shown or counted.
3. Review and build contextUsers read documents, follow related reporting, and assemble a reading list or chronology on an issue. Machine-generated summaries are proposals that cite the documents they come from.
4. Govern accessRecords and security staff manage who can see what, review marking issues, and watch for unusual access, under your agency's policies.

Meaning-based search

Finds documents that discuss the same issue in different words, alongside exact keyword, phrase and field search.

Access filtering before results

Clearance level, caveats and need-to-know groups are checked for every document before it appears in results, counts or suggestions.

Marking-aware display

Each document and each excerpt is shown with its classification, caveats and handling markings, including portion markings where present.

Marking review queue

Documents with missing, inconsistent or unrecognized markings are held from search until classification staff review them.

Related reporting

From any document, see earlier and later reporting on the same issue, post or subject, filtered by the same access rules.

Cited summaries

Draft summaries of a set of documents, with every statement linked to its source and marked as machine-generated for the user to check.

Chronologies and collections

Build a dated chronology or reading list on an issue, with notes, and share it only with people entitled to every item in it.

Scanned holdings

Older paper and microfilm holdings made searchable through optical character recognition, with lower-confidence text flagged.

Faceted filters

Narrow results by country, post, subject tags, date range, document type and originator.

Declassification history

Declassification, downgrading and release decisions recorded against each document as your authorities make them, with the effect on access applied.

Access monitoring

Searches, views and exports recorded, with reports that surface unusual patterns for security staff to review.

Records retention

Retention and disposition schedules recorded against document series, with holds that prevent deletion while they apply.

Searcher

Searches and reads documents within their clearance and need to know, and builds collections

Archivist

Manages ingestion, metadata and records retention for the holdings

Classification reviewer

Resolves marking issues and records declassification decisions made by your authorities

Access manager

Maintains need-to-know groups and approves access

Security reviewer

Reviews search and access activity for unusual patterns

Auditor (read-only)

Reviews access records and the audit trail without changing anything

Source archives

Cables and related documents transferred from your existing archives and records systems, with their metadata and markings.

Personnel security records

Clearance level and caveat eligibility from your authoritative personnel security source, refreshed on a schedule you set.

Single sign-on

Users sign in through your agency identity provider (SAML or OpenID Connect), including PIV-based authentication where your provider supports it.

Records management

Retention schedules and disposition decisions exchanged with your records management system.

Security monitoring

Search, view and export events sent to your security information and event management or insider threat tools.

FOIA and declassification review

Documents selected for FOIA or mandatory declassification review can be exported to your review tools, including Moraph's FOIA redaction engine.

Work API

Metadata, collection and activity data available to authorized internal tools through the Moraph Work API, subject to the same access rules.

US hosting and agency environments

Unclassified and CUI holdings are hosted in the United States region. Classified holdings are deployed in your agency's own environment and operated under your agency's authority.

Cleared support lane

Support tickets from federal clients are handled only by US citizens with active security clearances.

Access checked per document

Clearance, caveats and need to know are checked for every document before it is returned, counted or suggested.

Encryption under controlled keys

Client data is encrypted with keys Moraph staff cannot access without explicit, time-bound authorization.

Complete audit trail

Every search, view, summary, export and access change is recorded with the person and time, and cannot be edited.

AI proposes, people decide

Summaries and suggestions are labeled as machine-generated and cite their sources; they never change markings, access or records.

Moraph cloud, United States

For unclassified and CUI holdings, hosted and operated by Moraph in the United States region.

Dedicated environment

A single-tenant environment for agencies that require isolation, scoped in the proposal.

Agency environment

For classified holdings, the software is deployed in your agency's own accredited environment and operated under your agency's authority, with support from cleared Moraph staff as your procedures allow.

Holdings and marking assessment

We review your source archives, metadata and marking conventions with your records and classification staff, and agree how each marking maps to access attributes.

Access model design

Clearance levels, caveats and need-to-know groups are modeled with your security office, and the connection to your personnel security source is set up.

Environment setup

Unclassified and CUI holdings are set up in the Moraph US region. For classified holdings, the software is installed in your agency's environment and operated under your authority.

Staged ingestion

Holdings are loaded in batches, starting with a sample series, and marking issues and extraction quality are reviewed before each batch is released to search.

Access testing

Your security staff test with accounts at different access levels to confirm that results, counts and suggestions respect every rule before go-live.

Training and go-live

Searchers, archivists, reviewers and access managers are trained on their own workflows, including how to check machine-generated summaries against sources.

• Moraph holds no FedRAMP authorization and no accreditation for classified systems. We map controls and provide documentation to support your agency's own authorization decisions.
• Classified holdings are not hosted in Moraph's cloud. They are handled only in your agency's environment, under your authority.
• Access control is only as accurate as the markings on documents and the clearance data from your personnel security source. Documents with missing or inconsistent markings are held until reviewed.
• It does not classify, declassify or downgrade anything. It records decisions made by your authorized officials.
• Summaries and suggested related documents are machine-generated and can be incomplete or wrong. Users must check them against the cited sources.
• Search quality on older scanned holdings depends on scan quality; low-confidence text is flagged and may need rescanning.
• It is not a cable drafting or transmission system, and it does not replace your official records system of record.
• Search is in the languages your holdings are indexed for during implementation; translation is not included.

• Index a sample series of your unclassified holdings and compare meaning-based search with your current keyword search
• Test with accounts at different access levels and confirm that results, counts and suggestions never reveal restricted documents
• Load documents with deliberately inconsistent markings and confirm they are held for review
• Ask an officer to build a chronology on a past issue and check the cited summaries against the sources
• Change a test user's clearance in your personnel source and confirm access changes follow
• Review the audit trail for a session and confirm it answers your security office's questions