CAB148-30-Defence and Oversea Policy Committee Meetings Relating to 1967 Disturbances-1967 — Page 316

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

OPD(67) 37th Meeting

CABINET

54

COPY NO.

DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE

MINUTES of a Meeting held at

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

THURSDAY, 23rd NOVEMBER 1967 at 10.00 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 (Item 2)

The Rt. Hon. Denis Healey, MP,

Secretary of State for Defence

The Rt. Hon. Michael Stewart, MP

First Secretary of State

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. 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 1)

Marshal of the Royal Air Force

Sir Charles Elworthy, Chief of the Defence Staff

General Sir James Cassels,

Chief of the General Staff

The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Longford,

Lord Privy Seal

The Rt. Hon. Sir Elwyn Jones, QC, MP,

Attorney-General

Admiral Sir Varyl Begg,

Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord

Air Marshal P.C. Fletcher,

Vice-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

Item No.

Page

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2.

NIGERIA:

ARMS SUPPLIES TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

1

AIR SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE SOVIET UNION

2

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