HC Deb 24 May 1974 vol 874 c282W
Mr. Faulds

asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement about Her Majesty's Government's agreement to the authorisation given to the NATO command in the Southern Atlantic to draft a study of operations needed to protect the white minority regimes in Southern Africa in order to secure supplies of minerals from those areas for NATO countries.

Mr. Mason

No such authorisation has been given.