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OPD(67) 35th Meeting

CABINET

DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE

80

COPY NO.

MINUTES of a Meeting held at

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

FRIDAY, 3rd NOVEMBER 1967 at 10.45 a.m.

PRESENT:

The Rt. Hon. Harold Wilson, MP,

Prime Minister

The Rt. Hon. Michael Stewart, MP,

First Secretary of State

The Rt. Hon. Richard Crossman, MP,

Lord President of the Council

The Rt. Hon. James Callaghan, MP,

Chancellor of the Exchequer

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. Anthony Crosland, MP, The Rt. Hon. Peter Shore, MP,

President of the Board of Trade

Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Item 1)

The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Longford, The Rt. Hon. Anthony Wedgwood Benn, MP,

Lord Privy Seal

Minister of Technology

The Rt. Hon. Reginald Prentice, MP, The Rt. Hon. Lord Shackleton,

Minister of Overseas Development

The Rt. Hon. George Wigg, MP,

Paymaster-General

Mr. George Thomas, MP,

Minister of State for

Commonwealth Affairs (Item 3)

Minister without Portfolio

The Rt. Hon. Frederick Mulley, MP,

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

Mr. John Stonehouse, MP,

Minister of State,

Ministry of Technology (Items 1 and 2)

The Rt. Hon. Sir Elwyn Jones, QC,MP, Marshal of the Royal Air Force,

Attorney-General

Admiral Sir Varyl Begg,

Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord

Sir Charles Elworthy, Chief of the Defence Staff

General Sir James Cassels,

Chief of the General Staff

Air Vice-Marshal L.D. Mavor,

Representing Chief of the Air Staff

SECRETARIAT:

Sir Burke Trend

Mr. E.M. Rose

Mr. H.L. Lawrence-Wilson

Dr. F.H. Allen

Major-General J.H. Gibbon

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