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SECRET 4. Amin's personal aircraft or any suspicious flight from Uganda will be refused clearance to enter British airspace, and permission to land by Air Traffic Control; but if an aircraft carrying Amin insists on landing, we shall have to accept it, but will attempt to divert it to Brize Norton. The police would prefer to handle a landing at a military airfield with a secure perimeter. If the pilot refuses these directions, he will be allowed to land at Heathrow. Senior police officers of the Metropolitan and Regional Police Forces, in consultation with the Immigration Service and the Ministry of Defence, have agreed upon contingency plans for handling an aircraft and passengers on arrival. The first objective would be to persuade Amin to depart in the aircraft in which he arrived, but Departments are also considering the problems of a place of detention if Amin should stay for a long period and the means by which he could be removed by scheduled airline or by a Royal Air Force plane. 5. Further detailed planning is hampered by the risk of premature disclosure of our intentions. An early announcement of the Government's decision to exclude Amin is clearly desirable from the point of view of having these plans properly prepared and ready for activation. The Home Office paper will be seeking Ministerial decisions on this and other points, C WILSON 26 May 1977 2 SECRET