CAB148-30-Defence and Oversea Policy Committee Meetings Relating to 1967 Disturbances-1967 — Page 98

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OPD(67) 12th Meeting

CABINET

70

COPY NO.

DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE

MINUTES of a Meeting held at

10 Downing Street, S..1., on

WEDNESDAY, 15th MARCH 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. Richard Crossman, MP,

Lord President of the Council

The Rt. Hon. James Callaghan, MP,

Chancellor of the Exchequer (Item 1)

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. Lord Shackleton,

Minister without Portfolio

Mr. John Stonehouse, MP,

Minister of State, Ministry of Technology (Iten 1)

Mr. Harold Lever, MP,

Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Economic Affairs

Admiral Sir Varyl Begg,

Chief of Naval Staff and

First Sea Lord

(Item 1)

The Rt. Hon. George Wigg, MP,

Paymaster-General

Mr. George Thomas, MP,

Minister of State for Commonwealth Affairs

Mr. Albert E. Oram, MP,

Parliamentary Secretary,

Ministry of Overseas Development

Air Chief Marshal

Sir Charles Elworthy,

Chief of the Air Staff (Item 1)

SECRETARIAT :

Sir Burke Trend

Mr. P. Rogers

Mr. H.L. Lawrence-Wilson

Major-General J.H. Gibbon

CONTENTS:

Subject

Page

Item No.

1.

THE F 111K AND THE MAJOR DEFENCE DOLLAR PROGRAMMES

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2.

THE FALKLAND ISLANDS: ARGENTINE DISPUTE

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