Papers released by the National Archives in Kew, west London, show No 10 advisers believed the Marbles also known as the Parthenon Sculptures could be a powerful bargaining chip in the race to host the 2012 summer games.
The return of Marbles, controversially taken from the 2,500-year-old Parthenon the greatest surviving monument of Classical Greece by the Scottish peer Lord Elgin, was a longstanding demand of the Greeks.
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