More than 50 government files relating to the Lockerbie bombing are held at the National Archives in Kew, London, but only a handful have been opened to the public. Earlier this year a file containing records from the prime minister’s office relating to the “Pan Am 747 air crash” on December 21, 1988, was declassified and listed in the archive records as available to view. However, when The Times requested to see it we were told it had been retained by the government on an indefinite basis. We were granted access to other files from 1989 relating to the atrocity, which had remained unseen for almost 30 years. Within them, however, were notices which stated that a number of selected cabinet documents had been “removed…

Source: The Times November 30, 2018 00:02 UTC