SECRET Registry No. DRAFT NOTE Type 1 + To: From Telephone No. & Ext. Top Secret. Secret. Confidential. Restricted. Unclassified Staff in Confidence. Department Masirah Island At present the Royal Air Force uses or plans to use the airfield at Masirah: (i) for staging Lightning aircraft and their accompanying Victor tankers en route to and from the Far East, both to rotate the FEAF Lightning Squadron and to reinforce the Far East theatre in any emergency; (ii) as a deployment base for the six NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN NEAF Canberras declared to CENTO in a nuclear role; (iii) as a possible jumping-off point for flights in connection with plans in East and Southern Africa. These plans include, for example, those for evacuation and protection of British subjects in former British East African territories, for military assistance to Kenya in certain circumstances and the introduction of British forces by invitation into Rhodesie. Now that we have left Aden, Masirah and Bahrain provide the only possible as 6 likely, Le points 11,four dircraft plan to use the CENTO Route rather than fly across (8635) Dd.033274 300m 10/66 G.W.B.Ltd. Gp.863 North East Africa. Masirah is SECRET more
