UK: Revealed: the bonfire of papers at the end of Empire - DG was a code word to indicate papers were for British officers of European descent only

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"Fifty-year-old documents that have finally been transferred to the National Archive show that bonfires were built behind diplomatic missions across the globe as the purge – codenamed Operation Legacy – accompanied the handover of each colony."

See the full article: Revealed: the bonfire of papers at the end of Empire - DG was a code word to indicate papers were for British officers of European descent only (Guardian, lnk)

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