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CONFIDENTIAL Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1A 2AH 9 July 1976 fUv* ( ML rAJCK / Mrs. Dora Bloch "I The PUS talked briefly to the Prime Minister yesterday afternoon about future moves over the case of Mrs. Dora Bloch, the 74 year old UK/Israel national who has been missing in Uganda since Sunday evening, 4 July. 7 As you know, our High Commissioner has been sent back to Kampala to try to obtain a more satisfactory answer from the Ugandans about Mrs. Bloch1s fate. The likelihood is that she is dead. The Ugandans have used a denial of whereabouts before in the case of missing persons who have subsequently never been traced. The Ugandan armed forces will be bitter and dangerous following their disgrace at Israel hands. They may have seized on the only available Jew on whom to extract revenge. It is quite possible that Amin and his senior colleagues were unaware at the time of what had happened to Mrs. Bloch. We had been about th write to you to recommend that the Prime Minister should send a message to Amin drawing on the personal relationship he established with Amin during his visit to Kampala last July and in particular Amin's assurances that we should contact him confidentially in any further case of difficulties affecting British subjects. This was oh;;the assumption that Hennessy would be kept waiting by Amin indefinitely or would receive merely temporising answers. Hennessy has now had a long interview /with P. R. H. Wright Esq., No. 10 Downing Street, LONDON S.W. 1 CONFIDENTIAL