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What Would You Do If You Could Censor Your Past? A Visit to the UK's Secret Archives
VICE News has learned that some UK Foreign Office 'sensitivity reviewers' are reading and redacting historic documents that they themselves wrote while working as diplomats.
Exclusive: The UK Has Just Unearthed New 'Top Secret' Colonial-Era Government Files
The files, some labeled "Top Secret," could shed more light on abuses committed in British colonies during the heyday of the Empire, that successive governments have long kept hidden.
Britain Just 'Found' Another 170,000 Unlawfully Withheld Government Files
VICE News exclusive: The British government just "became aware" of a huge trove of historic documents that should have been released to the public — but won't yet say what's in them.
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