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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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