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t'f. Scout care and armoured ambulances will be on stand-by, to be brought in to the appropriate airport by the quickest means available, once the arrival airport is known. If the arrival io at Brize Norton, Heathrow or Gatwick, the police are confident of their ability to contain it without the help of infantry ground troops. If the arrival is at Stansted, the Essex police would prefer to have infantry ground troops available at not more than half an hour's driving distance from Stansted. If this is to be put in hand before an announcement, and the troops are called out as a result • of a false alarm - the arrival of a suspect aircraft which does not in the event contain Amin - the cover will have been blown and the authorities may be thought to have over-reacted. Ministers are asked to decide whether, notwithstanding these risks, to authorise the positioning of infantry ground troops on stand-by in the Stansted area. 15. It ic thought that there will not be a task for the PAGODA team; but they will be at their normal three hours' notice. This is acceptable to the police. They are in any case to be brought up to London to cover the meeting of Commonwealth Heads of Government. Departure of Amin 16. The first objective would be to persuade Amin to depart as soon as practicable in the aircraft by which he arrived. Only if he refused to do so should we wish to contemplate removal by the Royal Air Force, or by scheduled service or by chartered aircraft. 17. If it were possible to put Amin on to a scheduled service, this would minimise the problems. But there are no scheduled services direct from the Uiiited Kingdom to Uganda, and it would presumably be necessary to get Amin to an airport from which a scheduled service to Uganda is available. 18. There are seven or eight airlines capable of providing a chartered aircraft^for this purpose. There 'would, however, be problems of overflying; and presumably no airline would be willing to commit an aircraft to landing " in Uganda. There must be some doubt about the willingness of any civil airline *to make an aircraft available for this task. No approach could be made to potential charterers until a public statement of the decision to exclude Amin had been made. 19. The RAF would not wish to fly Amin to Uganda for the sake of the safety of the aircraft and its crew. It would be necessary to agree a destination: