Nemo
12-21-2011, 12:19 AM
"The National Archives is best known for dusty files rather than Class A drug powders, so it came as a shock when a researcher found heroin there.
In October a scholar visiting the Government's official archive in Kew, west London, asked for a 1928 Foreign Office file from the British Consulate in Cairo, Egypt, detailing a criminal assault court case involving possession of narcotics.
Upon opening file FO 841/276, the researcher was intrigued to find a pouch containing 19 sachets with a mysterious "off-white powder" inside..."
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/12/20/heroin-find-at-national-archives_n_1159723.html
In October a scholar visiting the Government's official archive in Kew, west London, asked for a 1928 Foreign Office file from the British Consulate in Cairo, Egypt, detailing a criminal assault court case involving possession of narcotics.
Upon opening file FO 841/276, the researcher was intrigued to find a pouch containing 19 sachets with a mysterious "off-white powder" inside..."
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/12/20/heroin-find-at-national-archives_n_1159723.html