Overview
- Singapore’s National Library Board and the Ministry of Digital Development and Information launched The Albatross File book and permanent exhibition on Sunday.
- The release includes newly declassified notes from Goh Keng Swee’s files, in which he code-named Malaysia “Albatross.”
- The materials highlight a split in the founding leadership, with Goh convinced a clean break was necessary and Lee Kuan Yew wrestling with the consequences.
- The book features interviews with several of Singapore’s founders and places some documents in the public domain for the first time.
- Organizers frame the collection as an official effort to deepen the public record on the 1965 separation and how the decision was made.