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OPD(67) 39th Meeting
CABINET
75
COPY NO.
DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE
MINUTES of a Meeting held at
10, Downing Street, S.W.1.,
on FRIDAY, 8th DECEMBER 1967 at 10.30 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. Roy Jenkins, MP
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Rt. Hon. Denis Healey, MP
Secretary of State for Defence
The Rt. Hon. Michael Stewart, MP
First Secretary of State
The Rt. Hon. Richard Crossman, MP Lord President of the Council
The Rt. Hon. George Thomson, MP
Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs
THE FOLLOWING WERE ALSO PRESENT:
The Rt. Hon. Lord Gardiner,
Lord Chancellor
The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Longford,
Lord Privy Seal
The Rt. Hon. Lord Shackleton,
Minister without Portfolio
Sir Arthur Irvine, QC, MP
Solicitor-General
Air Chief Marshal Sir John Grandy,
Chief of the Air Staff
The Rt. Hon. Anthony Crosland, MP President of the Board of Trade
The Rt. Hon. Richard Marsh, MP
Minister of Power
Mr. John Stonehouse, MP
Minister of State, Ministry of Technology (Item 2)
General Sir James Cassels,
Acting Chief of the
Defence Staff
Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Hill-Norton,
Vice-Chief of Naval Staff
The Rt. Hon. Malcolm Macdonald,
United Kingdom Special Representative in Central and East Africa
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SECRETARIAT:
Mr. E.M. Rose
Mr. H.L. Lawrence-Wilson Mr. N.C.C. Trench
Major-General J.H. Gibbon
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CONTENTS:
Item No.
Subject
1
2
DEFENCE FROGRAMME
PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES
3
RHODESIA POLICY
4
SOUTH AFRICA:
MARITIME EQUIPMENT
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