Some 170 boxes of top secret files on Britain's former colonial administrations have gone missing, while those relating to Singapore may have been destroyed in the 1990s, the government said Friday.
In a statement to parliament, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister David Lidington said the department knew the files had been returned to Britain from former colonies but did not know what had happened to them subsequently.
"There is some evidence that the Singapore top secret colonial administration files were destroyed as part of a review of FCO post files in the 1990s. Full story
