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Government agency responsible for providing national security
intelligence to senior US policymakers.
one or more meteorological stations on each possession; note - meteorological station on Tromelin Island (Iles Eparses) is important for forecasting cyclones
South Africa maintains a meteorological station on Gough Island
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