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OPD(67) 32nd Meeting
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COPY NO.
DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE
MINUTES of a Meeting held at
10 Downing Street, S.W.1., on
TUESDAY, 10th OCTOBER 1967 at 11.15 a.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
The Rt. Hon. Michael Stewart, MP,
First Secretary of State
The Rt. Hon. Denis Healey, MP,
Secretary of State for Defence
The Rt. Hon. George Thomson, MP
Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs
THE FOLLOWING WERE ALSO PRESENT :
The Rt. Hon. Anthony Crosland, MP,
President of the Board of Trade
The Rt. Hon. Richard Marsh, MP,
Minister of Power (Item 2)
The Rt. Hon. Anthony Wedgwood Benn, MP, The Rt. Hon. Reginald Prentice MP,
Minister of Technology (Item 1)
The Rt. Hon. George Wigg, MP,
Paymaster General
Admiral Sir Varyl Begg,
Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord
Minister of Overseas Development
Marshal of the Royal Air Force,
Sir Charles Elworthy,
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. E.M. Rose
Mr. H.L. Lawrence-Wilson
Major-General J.H. Gibbon
CONTENTS:
Subject
THE SPEY/PHANTOM
IMPLICATIONS OF THE MIDDLE EAST SITUATION
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