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/instance was financial rather than political. Their interest would be in setting up a pliable puppet government and hinted that the chances of AMOCO finding oil in the vicinity of -` Seychelles were very good, and that this could provide a profit motivation for such an interest. Again, I asked whether he had any proof to substantiate this allegation. He said that he did not but it was something of which we should be aware.

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