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Cabinet: Minutes of Defence and Oversea Policy Committee - OD(80) 1st (Defence Estimates 1980, Afghanistan, Iran) [declassified 2010]

Document type: Declassified documents
Venue: 10 Downing Street
Source: CAB 148/189
Editorial comments: 0930. Informal papers relating to this meeting follow the minutes. Formal papers circulated to committee members and considered at the meeting can be read here. All minutes and papers relating to 1980 meetings of OD Committee can be found here.
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 52pp
Themes: Defence (general), Energy, Foreign policy - theory and process, Foreign policy (Asia), Foreign policy (Middle East), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), MT's meetings as PM