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CONFIDENTIAL 6. We are alerting our Embassy in Havana, asking them to report any indication that Amin might be going there, although if it is to happen previous experience suggests that there might not in fact be any prior notice. As you know, we no longer have any people of our own in Kampala and cannot expect any help from that quarter, although we will alert those channel which might be available to us, and I assume that you will do the same as regards, e.g. the security services. 7. Ve do not suggest, on the basis of this single report, that we should engage in the detailed and demanding contingency planning and alert procedures which were mounted before the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, but the Secretary of State is clear that we ought to make the dispositions I have set out above to ensure that we are not caught napping. M K Ewans East African Department cc .C prison Esq. >inet Office J R Gildea Esq DOT Mr Hervey PUSD FCO Mr Littlefield PUSD FCO CONFIDENTIAL