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CONFIDENTIAL PRIME MINISTER PM/77/84 Presid/nt Amin 1. You will have seen the pr£Sys reports that PresMvdenJi/'Amin has announced his intention of attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York and of tramtting Heathrow en route. 2. This may be another of Amin's extravagant jokes and the chances of him attending the General Assembly are probably not very great. Even if he does come via Heathrow he may well simply pass straight through in the normal way (although there will undoubtedly be problems with the press if he does). I do not think however we can afford to take the risk of being caught napping if he does turn up and seek to enter the UK. He has a former wife here and there has been a suggestion that he has a child or children at school here under assumed names (although we have been unable to confirm this); he might use their presence as a pretext for a visit. I am quite sure that if Amin were to seek admission to the United Kingdom we should exclude him. We agreed in the context of his proposed attendance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting that his presence here would be totally unacceptable to public and /Parliamentary CONFIDENTIAL