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OPD(67) 23rd Meeting

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CABINET

DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE

MINUTES of a Meeting held at

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

THURSDAY, 15th JUNE 1967 at 9.45 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. Richard Crossman, MP,

Lord President of the Council

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, MP,

Secretary of State for the Home Department

THE FOLLOWING WERE ALSO PRESENT:

The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Longford,

Lord Privy Seal

The Rt. Hon. Lord Shackleton,

Minister without Portfolio

The Rt. Hon. George Thomson, MP,

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

Admiral Sir Varyl Begg,

Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord

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

The Rt. Hon. George Wigg, MP,

Paymaster-General

General Sir James Cassels,

Acting Chief of the Defence 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 Mr. M.J. Moriarty

SUBJECT:

SOUTH ARABIA

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