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Newly declassified documents – known as the Albatross File – are the subject of the permanent exhibition on the 10th floor of the National Library Building.

Newly declassified documents – known as the Albatross File – are the subject of the permanent exhibition on the 10th floor of the National Library Building.

ST ILLUSTRATION: CEL GULAPA

Michael Han

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SINGAPORE – My son and I visited The Albatross File Exhibition in January.

He first told me about it when a group of his classmates from Singapore Management University (SMU) went. Newly declassified documents – Cabinet papers and handwritten notes compiled by then Finance Minister Goh Keng Swee from 1964 and known as

the Albatross File

– are the subject of the permanent exhibition on the 10th floor of the National Library Building.

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