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SECRET N 01956 1. SIR CLIYE^WSSE 2. SIR JOHN/flUNT V President Amin You are aware that the meeting of Ministers on 19 May instructed the Home Secretary to undertake the preparation of a plan to ensure the exclusion of President Amin from the United Kingdom, if he should try to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, and to cover action to be taken if Amin landed without prior authority. A number of meetings of officials have been held under Home Office chairmanship to consider the problems involved, and a note is to be submitted today to Home Office Ministers detailing contingency arrangements for meeting the Ministerial remit and seeking decisions from Ministers which would permit further planning to go ( forward. The Home Secretary will wish to discuss these proposals with the Prime Minister and other Ministers concerned at the earliest possible dateo 2. Officials have agreed that as the arrangements to exclude President Amin will require a co-ordinated Whitehall response, the Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms (COBR) should be used for this purpose. The COBR will be on alert from this weekend until the end of the CHG-M. 3. We have very little indication of Amin's intentions and plans and there are a number of possible ways in which he might try to enter the country. Officials have considered three basic scenarios: i. Amin's intention to come is known and his arrival is anticipated. ii» Amin arrives by one of the regular Uganda Airline flights to Stansted. iii. Amin manages to arrive unexpectedly either by a scheduled service (other than Uganda Airline flight to Stansted) or by arriving without notice in his own private aircraft. As regards (ii) we have been given notice of two non-routine Boeing 707 flights from Uganda to Stansted on Sunday, 29 May, arriving about 5 pm. As these do not conform with their normal practice and in case Amin is on board, the flights will be given special attention and received in accordance with contingency plans. They will be met by the police on arrival and as a precaution we shall be activating the COBR in advance to handle any possible incident. 1 SECRET