Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 3 p.m.

^1.C. C. S. 136th meeting.

	Present
United States		United Kingdom
Admiral Leahy		General Brooke
General Marshall		Air Chief Marshal Portal
Admiral King		Admiral of the Fleet Cunningham
General Arnold		Field Marshall Dill
Lieutenant General Somervell		Lieutenant General Ismay
Vice Admiral Willson		General Riddell-Webster
Rear Admiral Cooke		Major General Stopford3
Rear Admiral Bieri		Rear Admiral Troubridge
Rear Admiral Badger		Air Vice Marshal Baker
Major General Sutherland		Major General Laycock
Major General Stratemeyer		Captain Lambe
Major General Handy		Brigadier Sugden
Major General Fairchild		Air Commodore Elliot
Major General Wedemeyer2		Brigadier McNair
Brigadier General Kuter		Colonel Cornwall-Jones
Brigadier General Hansell
Brigadier General Roberts
Captain Freseman
Commander Long
	Secretariat
Captain Royal		Brigadier Redman
Colonel McFarland		Commander Coleridge

December 5, 1943, 3 p.m.

J. C. S. Files

Although listed in the C. C. S. minutes as “Lt. Gen. J. Stopford”, this officer is now known to have been Major General Montagu George North Stopford, who assumed command in December 1943 of the Thirty-third Indian Corps, which fought in Burma.↩
Present during a part of the meeting.↩

Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943