CAB148-30-Defence and Oversea Policy Committee Meetings Relating to 1967 Disturbances-1967 — Page 280

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

OPD(67) 32nd Meeting

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72

COPY NO.

DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE

MINUTES of a Meeting held at

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

TUESDAY, 10th OCTOBER 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. James Callaghan, MP,

Chancellor of the Exchequer

The Rt. Hon. Michael Stewart, MP,

First Secretary of State

The Rt. Hon. Denis Healey, MP,

Secretary of State for Defence

The Rt. Hon. George Thomson, MP

Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs

THE FOLLOWING WERE ALSO PRESENT :

The Rt. Hon. Anthony Crosland, MP,

President of the Board of Trade

The Rt. Hon. Richard Marsh, MP,

Minister of Power (Item 2)

The Rt. Hon. Anthony Wedgwood Benn, MP, The Rt. Hon. Reginald Prentice MP,

Minister of Technology (Item 1)

The Rt. Hon. George Wigg, MP,

Paymaster General

Admiral Sir Varyl Begg,

Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord

Minister of Overseas Development

Marshal of the Royal Air Force,

Sir Charles Elworthy,

Chief of the Defence Staff

General Sir James Cassels,

Chief of the General Staff

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Air Chief Marshal Sir John Grandy,

Chief of the Air Staff

SECRETARIAT :

Sir Burke Trend

Mr. E.M. Rose

Mr. H.L. Lawrence-Wilson

Major-General J.H. Gibbon

CONTENTS:

Subject

THE SPEY/PHANTOM

IMPLICATIONS OF THE MIDDLE EAST SITUATION

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