CONFIDENTIAL

FACILITIES ACCORDED TO THE U.S.A. IN BRITISH DEPENDENT TERRITORIES

Territory

Agreements

Tern of Agreement

Antigua*

1961 Defence Agreement (Cmnd.1369)

for review in

1968

NASA agreement

concluded 23 January 1967 and came into force.

Bermuda

1941 Defence Agreement

(Cmnd 6259)

99 years

as modified by

subsequent agreements.

1961 NASA Agreements (Cmnd.1388 & 2223)

*U.S. relinquished 2 acre of the U.S.A.F.

Defence Area on Antigua Island in

August 1967. The exact portion involved was Tract AN-909.

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ANNEX 'B'

Facilities enjoyed

The wartime airfield is shared with civil airlines and has been extended to take jets. jets Missile Tracking Station Oceanographic Research

Station

Project Apollo tracking station (not yet constructed).

Deep water harbour constructed as a result of U.S. loan given for the purpose.

Military airfield

Naval Station

Project Mercury

tracking station Other space research

Benefits arising for territory concerned

U.3. agreed to make v available U.S. $350,000 for certain development projects in 1961. The airfield is now one of the heaviest used by civil airlines in the Caribbean.

Construction of deep water harbour, completed October 1968, for use by civilian traffic.

Airfield shared with civil airlines.

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