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Behind the Bastards
The book was used to support the claim that the British government knew about the Chagossian population and chose to lie about it. This was highlighted by a 1965 foreign office minute and a Whitehall document titled "Maintaining the fiction", both of which were cited as evidence.
And I'm reading from Mark Curtis's web of deceit here.
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The book was used to support the claim that the British government knew about the Chagossian population and chose to lie about it. This was highlighted by a 1965 foreign office minute and a Whitehall document titled "Maintaining the fiction", both of which were cited as evidence.
And I'm reading from Mark Curtis's web of deceit here.
A foreign office minute from 1965 recognizes policy as to certify the Chagossians more or less fraudulently as belonging somewhere else.
Another Whitehall document was entitled, maintaining the fiction.
The foreign office legal advisor wrote in January, 1970, that it was important to maintain the fiction that the inhabitants of Chagos are not a permanent or semi-permanent population.