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SECRET """ J Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1A 2AH / 20 June, 1975 h Uganda We have been considering contingency planning in the event of Amin's carrying out his threat to execute Mr. Denis Hills. Mr. Callaghan has not yet seen any of the papers attached below, but the Department envisage the following sequence of events: (a) a total breach of diplomatic relations involving the withdrawal of the High Commission in Kampala and the expulsion of the Ugandan mission in London. I attach a telegram which has been despatched to Kampala about this; (b) the evacuation of those members of the British community willing to leave Uganda. There are two possibilities here; a civil evacuation and a military evacuation. I attach papers on both. You wilj. see that in practice both civil and military evacuation plans require the cooperation of the Ugandan authorities. An evacuation opposed by the Ugandan authorities would require a large-scale military operation which would take too long to mount, would leak to the Ugandan authorities and almost certainly result in a loss of the lives of many of those it was intended to save; (er) retaliatory measures; these would be for consideration next week", a paper is in preparation; (d) action in the U.N. Security Council and in other international organisations. The draft of an approach to the President of the Security Council is already prepared; (e) the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary would make a statement to the House on Monday afternoon, 23 June. A contingency draft is being prepared. / I - 1 - SECRET