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Creased but readable newspapers with headlines like 'Exchange of captured air crew today' (between India and Pakistan) and government calendars are the contents of a jute "diplomatic bag" found buried for 46-years in Mont Blanc in the French Alps. The jute bag, weighing about 9kg and stamped "On India Government Service", "Diplomatic Mail" and "Ministry of External Affairs", was recovered by a mountain rescue worker on August 21 on Mont Blanc close to where an Air India plane flying from Mumbai to New York had crashed in January 1966 killing all 117 on board, including top Indian nuclear scientist Homi J Bhabha. Satwant Khanalia, an official with India's Embassy in Paris, took possession of the bag from the authorities at Chamonix town in the mountain base on September 4 and its contents were finally revealed. For more log onto- http://www.newsx.com