CAB148-30-Defence and Oversea Policy Committee Meetings Relating to 1967 Disturbances-1967 — Page 12

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OPD (67) 1st Meeting

CABINET

DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE

MINUTES of a Meeting held at

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

FRIDAY, 6th JANUARY 1967 at 11.00 a.m.

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PRESENT:

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. Denis Healey, MP,

Secretary of State for Defence

The Rt. Hon. James Callaghan, MP,

Chancellor of the Exchequer

The Rt. Hon. Richard Crossman, MP Lord President of the Council

The Rt. Hon. Roy Jenkins, MP,

Secretary of State for the Home Department

The Rt. Hon. Frederick Lee, MP,

Secretary of State for the Colonies

THE FOLLOWING WERE ALSO PRESENT:

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

Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull, Chief of the Defence Staff

Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Elworthy,

Chief of the Air Staff

The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Longford,

Lord Privy Seal

General Sir James Cassels,

Chief of the General Staff

Vice-Admiral Sir John Bush,

Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff

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SECRETARIAT:

Sir Burke Trend

Mr. P. Rogers

Mr. H.L. Lawrence-Wilson

Major-General J.H. Gibbon

CONTENTS:

Subject

STATIONING OF A SECOND BATTALION IN THE PERSIAN GULF

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