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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

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