Albatross file

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The Albatross file is a series of documents covering the period leading up to Singapore's separation from Malaysia in 1965. Compiled by Singapore's finance minister Goh Keng Swee, the file includes papers by the Cabinet of Singapore, confidential memoranda and Goh's handwritten records of his discussions with Malaysian leaders. Although the prevailing narrative holds that Singapore was abruptly and unilaterally expelled from Malaysia by the federal government, the file's documents reveal that as early as 1964 and especially after the racial riots that July, confidential talks regarding Singapore's constitutional rearrangements in Malaysia had commenced between Singapore's People's Action Party and Malaysia's Alliance Party, which eventually led to Singapore's separation. In a handwritten note, Singaporean prime minister Lee Kuan Yew formally authorised Goh to engage in discussions with Malaysian leaders, Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Razak Hussein and Minister of Home Affairs Ismail Abdul...

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