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The secret files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose that will be declassified in Kolkata on Friday may contain enough circumstantial evidence that he was alive till at least 1964, say sources.
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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.
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"The report was prepared by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the US intelligence agency formed during World War II that later metamorphosed into Central Intelligence Agency or CIA. Remember, it was in 1949 that Netaji's elder brother Sarat Bose wrote an article: 'Netaji in Red China'. I believe this is conclusive proof that Netaji did not die in 1945," said Netaji researcher Jayanta Chowdhury, who had deposed before the Justice Manoj Mukherjee Commission, whose report had concluded that the Taihoku plane crash hadn't happened.
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Among the contents of the 64 files — whose photocopies will be made available to the public at the Kolkata Police archives on Friday — is another US intelligence report on Netaji's escape from house arrest on January 16, 1941.
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While history records that Bose, disguised as a Sikh, was driven away by his nephew Sisir, the CIA report — declassified and published 50 years later in the early 1990s — states that five Sikhs had arrived at 38/2 Elgin Road and all five had left in a wagon. One of them was Bose. But there is no mention of a relative. Intelligence Bureau records contain names of visitors to the Netaji residence on that date.
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