WikiLeaks, the free information group made famous with the leaking of hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables, has made public thousands of documents from the government of Saudi Arabia.

Meanwhile in Geneva, the Saudi mission is stuck dealing with a multi-million dollar limo bill racked up by a Saudi royal and her entourage. One 2012 memo warned that Iran was getting “flirting American messages” suggesting that the U.S. had no objections to a peaceful Iranian nuclear program so long as it had guarantees, “possibly Russian ones”.

And another document from the same year, sent from the Saudi embassy in Abu Dhabi, said the United Arab Emirates was putting ‘heavy pressure’ on the egyptian government not to try ex- president hosni mubarak. The document found in the WikiLeaks archives makes this claim seem more believable, despite the fact that the Saudis adamantly denied making any such offer at the time.

“They listened to briefings by embassy employees, asked questions, and had pictures taken”, the message stated.

They show that Clinton often visited Saudi arabia during her tenure at state from 2009-2013, including a March 2012 trip to meet the late king Abdullah and ex- foreign minister prince Saud al-Faisal in Riyadh.

Many more of the dozens of documents examined by The Associated Press appeared to be the product of mundane administrative work, such as emails about setting up a website or operating an office fax machine.

WikiLeaks said that the leaked reports of communications between the Saudi government and its embassies across the globe “provide key insights into the kingdom’s operations and how it has managed its alliances and consolidated its position as a regional Middle East superpower, including through bribing and co-opting key individuals and institutions”.

The AP was able to partially verify a handful of documents’ authenticity by calling the telephone numbers included in many of them. Kristinn Hrafnsson, a spokesman for WikiLeaks, said he was positive the material was authentic.

Julian Assange, WikiLeaks publisher, said: “The Saudi Cables lift the lid on a increasingly erratic and secretive dictatorship that has not only celebrated its 100th beheading this year, but which has also become a menace to its neighbours and itself“.

He said: ‘As a matter of policy we’re not going to discuss the source of the material.’.