‘British Foreign Office ordered Netaji’s murder’ link

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<mbranparker> wrote:

>

>

> Sunday, 14 August , 2005, 20:23

>

> Kolkata: Adding a new twist to the mysteries surrounding the life and

> disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, an Irish scholar on

> Sunday claimed that British Foreign Office had ordered the

> assassination of the great leader in March, 1941 during his great

> escape from India.

>

>

> `British Foreign Office ordered Netaji's murder'

> According to Prof Eunan OHalpin of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland,

the

> British Foreign Office ordered assassination of Netaji in March, 1941,

> and reconfirmed the order in June that year.

>

> Learning from a decode of an Italian telegram on February 27, 1941,

that

> Subhas Bose might be in Kabul, the British Foreign Office asked the

> British minister there if he had any local clue in confirmation, OHalpin,

a

> professor of history, said while delivering the Sisir Kumar Bose lecture

> at the Netaji Research Bureau in Kolkata.

>

> He said on March 7, the British Special Operations Executive, formed

in

> 1940 for sabotage, underground propaganda and other clandestine

> activities, informed its representatives in Istanbul and Cairo that Bose

> was understood to be travelling from Afghanistan to Germany via Iran,

> Iraq and Turkey.

>

> OHalpin handed over documentary evidences in support of his claims

to

> NRB chairperson Krishna Bose.