West Bengal govt declassifies 64 files related to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

The West Bengal government on Friday declassified 64 files related to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. The files were handed to the family members first and also kept on display in a police museum in Kolkata. However, the files will be allowed for public viewing only by Monday. The documents are believed to be in over 12,000 pages. The secret files on Netaji may contain enough circumstantial evidence that he was alive till at least 1964, sources disclosed to the Times of India earlier. An American intelligence report prepared in the early 1960s suggests that Netaji could have returned to India sometime in February 1964 — 19 years after it was claimed that he died in an air crash in Taihoku, Taiwan. Though Russia is not mentioned, Netaji researchers believe American intelligence units had learned about his imminent return from Russia via China. He would have been 67 years old at the time.