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(THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT)
OPD(67) 8th Meeting
CABINET
DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE
COPY NO. 76
MINUTES of a Meeting held in
10 Downing Street, S.W.1.,
on THURSDAY, 23rd FEBRUARY 1967 at 5.30 p.m.
PRESENT:
The Rt. Hon. Harold Wilson, MP
Prime Minister
The Rt. Hon. George Brown, MP
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
The Rt. Hon. James Callaghan, MP
Chancellor of the Exchequer (Item 2)
The Rt. Hon. Denis Healey, MP
Secretary of State for Defence
The Rt. Hon. Michael Stewart, MP First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
The Rt. Hon. Richard Crossman, MP Lord President of the Council (Item 2)
The Rt. Hon. Roy Jenkins, MP Secretary of State for the Home Department
THE FOLLOWING WERE ALSO PRESENT:
The Rt. Hon. Patrick Gordon Walker, MP
Minister without Portfolio
The Rt. Hon. Lord Shackleton,
Minister without Portfolio
The Rt. Hon. George Thomson, MP
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
(Item 2)
Mr. Robert Mellish, MP
Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Housing and
Local Government
(Item 2)
The Rt. Hon. Arthur Bottomley, MP, Minister of Overseas Development
The Rt. Hon. George Wigg, MP
Paymaster-General
Mr. Gerald Reynolds, MP
Minister of Defence (Administration) (Item 2)
General Sir James Cassels, Chief of General Staff
Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Elworthy, Vice-Admiral Sir John Bush,
Chief of Air Staff
Vice-Chief of Naval Staff
SECRETARIAT:
Sir Burke Trend
Mr. P. Rogers
Mr. H.L. Lawrence-Wilson Mr. M.J. Moriarty
Major-General J.H. Gibbon
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