The Netaji Mystery: 64 New Files Hold Promise of Big Reveal on Freedom Fighter

Secret files on legendary freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose will be made public by the West Bengal government soon.Hidden in government and police lockers for years, 64 classified files will be on display at the Kolkata police museum.Many secrets are expected to emerge on Netaji, whose death has been an enduring mystery for decades.Scores of files were declassified recently, many in the National Archives in Delhi. One such intelligence file revealed in 1997 reports that eight months after Netaji purportedly died in an air crash in at Taihoku in Taiwan on 18 August, 1945, Mahatma Gandhi had publicly said he believed Netaji was alive.

Secret files on legendary freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose will be made public by the West Bengal government soon.Hidden in government and police lockers for years, 64 classified files will be on display at the Kolkata police museum.Many  secrets are expected to emerge on Netaji, whose death has been an enduring mystery for decades.Scores of files were declassified recently, many in the National Archives in Delhi.

One such intelligence file revealed in 1997 reports that eight months after Netaji purportedly died in an air crash in at Taihoku in Taiwan on 18 August, 1945, Mahatma Gandhi had publicly said he believed Netaji was alive.

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