File marked confidential, includes: memo entitled the "Simonstown Strategy" concerning the defence aspects of the proposed sale of arms to South Africa.
Memo on Western strategic interests in the Indian Ocean.
Details of Soviet naval deployment.
Secret memo from Salter to the Commonwealth Secretary-General regarding possible meeting of Commonwealth Defence ministers to consider the security of sea routes in the Indian Ocean.
Press release from Commonwealth Heads’ of Government meeting, Singapore January 1971 issuing the Commonwealth declaration (included in file), where defence , international affairs and possible entry of Britain into the EEC were mentioned.

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