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C \ V SECRET Page 2-of 2 pages of the Environment, should look as a matter of urgency for locations which can be more easily isolated and are more suitable to detain Amin, - perhaps for a number" of days - in a style to which, as a Head of State, he has become accustomed. Meanwhile, we are looking at a number of Defence establishments which would be better locations, from every point of view, than RAF Brize Norton as places of detention after the first 6 to 8 hours after Amin's arrival. When an announcement is made of our intentions to exclude Amin, my Secretary of State would hope that all possible means of transporting him out of this country will be fully explored. He appreciates that there may be difficulties in persuading a civil airline to remove Amin to an intermediate airport, from which he can return to Uganda. As against this, there would be difficulties over obtaining diplomatic overflying clearances for an RAF flight. Without such diplomatic clearances, for which we shall have to declare that Amin is a passenger, an RAF flight would be impossible; and there are wider repercussions for diplomatic clearances of all other military overflights, especially over the Middle East, I if we encounter criticism for ejecting Amin. My Secretary of State thinks, therefore, that all possible civil means of removing Amin from this country should be very fully explored before a military flight is con- sidered. Apart from these comments my Secretary of State is content with the proposals in the submission to the Home Secretary. I am copying this letter to Patrick Wright (No 10), Ewen Fergusson (FCO), Martyn Baker (Department of Trade) and Norman Shanks (Scottish Office) \ JACKLING)