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OPD(67) 35th Meeting
CABINET
DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE
80
COPY NO.
MINUTES of a Meeting held at
10 Downing Street, S.W.1., on
FRIDAY, 3rd NOVEMBER 1967 at 10.45 a.m.
PRESENT:
The Rt. Hon. Harold Wilson, MP,
Prime Minister
The Rt. Hon. Michael Stewart, MP,
First Secretary of State
The Rt. Hon. Richard Crossman, MP,
Lord President of the Council
The Rt. Hon. James Callaghan, MP,
Chancellor of the Exchequer
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. Anthony Crosland, MP, The Rt. Hon. Peter Shore, MP,
President of the Board of Trade
Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Item 1)
The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Longford, The Rt. Hon. Anthony Wedgwood Benn, MP,
Lord Privy Seal
Minister of Technology
The Rt. Hon. Reginald Prentice, MP, The Rt. Hon. Lord Shackleton,
Minister of Overseas Development
The Rt. Hon. George Wigg, MP,
Paymaster-General
Mr. George Thomas, MP,
Minister of State for
Commonwealth Affairs (Item 3)
Minister without Portfolio
The Rt. Hon. Frederick Mulley, MP,
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
Mr. John Stonehouse, MP,
Minister of State,
Ministry of Technology (Items 1 and 2)
The Rt. Hon. Sir Elwyn Jones, QC,MP, Marshal of the Royal Air Force,
Attorney-General
Admiral Sir Varyl Begg,
Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord
Sir Charles Elworthy, Chief of the Defence Staff
General Sir James Cassels,
Chief of the General Staff
Air Vice-Marshal L.D. Mavor,
Representing Chief of the Air Staff
SECRETARIAT:
Sir Burke Trend
Mr. E.M. Rose
Mr. H.L. Lawrence-Wilson
Dr. F.H. Allen
Major-General J.H. Gibbon
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