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OPD(67) 25th Meeting
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DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE
MINUTES of a Meeting held at 10 Downing Street, S.7.1., on MONDAY, 3rd JULY 1967 at 3.30 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
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The Rt. Hon. Richard Crossman, MP, Lord President of the Council
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The Rt. Hon. Michael Stewart, MP, First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for
Economic Affairs
The Rt. Hon. Herbert Bowden,
Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs
MP,
The Rt. Hon. Denis Healey, MP,
Secretary of State for Defence
The Rt. Hon. Roy Jenkins, MP,
Secretary of State for the Home Department
THE FOLLOWING WERE ALSO PRESENT:
The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Longford,
Lord Privy Seal
The Rt. Hon. Arthur Bottomley, MP, Minister of Overseas Development
The Rt. Hon. George Wigg, MP,
Paymaster-General
Admiral Sir Varyl Begg,
Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord
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The Rt. Hon. Anthony Wedgwood Benn,
Minister of Technology
The Rt. Hon. Lord Shackleton,
Minister without Portfolio
Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull,
Chief of the Defence Staff
General Sir James Cassels,
Chief of the General Staff
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Air Chief Marshal Sir John Grandy,
Chief of the Air Staff
SECRETARIAT:
Sir Burke Trend
Mr. P. Rogers
Mr. H.L. Lawrence-Wilson
Major-General J.H. Gibbon
CONTENTS:
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DEFENCE EXPENDITURE STUDIES
DEFENCE WHITE PAPER
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