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(THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT)

OPD(67) 27th Meeting

CABINET

COPY NO.

53

DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE

MINUTES of a Meeting held at

10 Downing Street, S.W.1., on

MONDAY, 17th JULY 1967 at 11.00 a.m.

PRESENT:

EMMESCHOSOMA

The Rt. Hon. Harold Wilson, MP,

Prime Minister

The Rt. Hon. George Brown, MP,

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

The Rt. Hon. Herbert Bowden, MP,

Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs

The Rt. Hon. Michael Stewart, MP, First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs

MP,

,

The Rt. Hon. Denis Healey,

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. Douglas Jay, MP, President of the Board of Trade (Items 1 and 2)

The Rt. Hon. Arthur Bottomley, MP, Minister of Overseas Development

The Rt. Hon. George Wigg, MP,

Paymaster-General

Mr. Niall MacDermot, QC, MP,

Financial Secretary, Treasury

Admiral Sir Varyl Begg,

Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord

The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Longford,

Lord Privy Seal

The Rt. Hon. Lord Shackleton,

Minister without Portfolio

Mrs. Judith Hart, MP,

Minister of State for

Commonwealth Affairs (Items 2 and 3)

Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull, Chief of the Defence Staff

General Sir James Cassels,

Chief of the General Staff

Air Chief Marshal Sir John Grandy,

Chief of the Air Staff

SECRETARINT:

Sir Burke Trend

Mr. P. Rogers

Mr. H.L. Lawrence-Wilson

Mr. F.A.K. Harrison

Mr. M.J. Moriarty

Major-General J.H. Gibbon

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