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that it should become an independent "Section" under a DS 5 or DS 5'S' working directly to the AUS;

(ii) that it should be included with whatever

organisation is recommended for the Caribbean.

He does not favour the proposal which I put forward with the report on Gibraltar and General department for incorporating the rump in Commonwealth Co-ordination department.

5. I see no prospect of incorporating the 'rump' with West Indian and Atlantic department which already has a full work- load and, as a matter of principle, I should be reluctant to create a new level of independent organisation (the independent "Section") within the FCO structure. Nor do I see real prospect of being able to incorporate the rump in CCD until after next year's Commonwealth Conference. I consider therefore that the immediate solution is the attachment of the General and the Administrative, Judicial and Legal Staffing sections, which are already housed in the immediate vicinity, to HKIOD.

6. In the longer term the solution must I think either be attachment to Commonwealth Co-ordination department or dispersal if the need for a Dependent Territories staffing and policy unit has meanwhile disappeared.

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M H Morgan

Inspectorate

CG 616 233-5376

28 May 1976

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