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(THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT )

70

OPD(67) 15th Meeting

COFY NO.

CABINET

DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMIT TEE

MINUTES of a Meeting held at

10 Downing Street, S.W.1.,

on FRIDAY, 14th APRIL 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. Janes Callaghan, MP,

Chancellor of the Exchequer

The Rt. Hon. Richard Crossman,

Lord President of the Council

MP,

The Rt. Hon. Michael Stewart, MP,

First Secretary of State

and Secretary of State for Economic 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. Roy Jenkins, HP,

Secretary of State

for the Hone Department

THE FOLLOWING WERE ALSO PRESENT:

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

The Rt. Hon. Lord Chalfont,

Minister of State

for Foreign Affairs

Admiral Sir Varyl Begg,

Chief of Naval Staff

and First Sea Lord

The Rt. Hon. George Wigs, MP,

Paymaster-General

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

SECRETARIAT:

Sir Burke Trend

Mr. P. Rogers

Mr. H.L. Lawrence-Wilson Major-General J.H. Gibbon

CONTENTS

Item No.

Subject

Page

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DEFENCE EXPENDITURE STUDIES

1

2

NUMERICAL COMMITMENT TO WESTERN EUROPEAN UNION

2

3

SAFEGUARDS AND NON-PROLIFERATION

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