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Exclusive: The UK Has Just Unearthed New 'Top Secret' Colonial-Era Government Files
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office has located a new cache of colonial-era government documents, VICE News has learned.
The documents, some with "Top Secret" classifications and tantalizing subject titles, originate in the Colonial Office — the long-ago-disbanded government department that oversaw the colonies of the British Empire.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) confirmed to VICE News that the files were located last year, during an audit of government offices that revealed a staggering 170,000 historic files which had never been ma...