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e associated with the administration of the facility and will Mave the right to use it as required. Exact details of this project are still subject to negotiation between the Americans and ourselves. No date for a public announcement has been suggested as yet but the contract date on which the project could become known is, for congressional reasons, January or February 1969. The scientific objections to the development of Aldabra are not likely to apply in the case of Diego Garcia.

9. The British Indian Ocean Territory is administrated by a Commissioner, who is the Governor of Seychelles. He is assisted by an Administrator.

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