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Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Volume E-7, Documents on South Asia, 1969-1972


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Abbas, M. M., Director General for Americas and Europe, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

Pakistan

Abshire, David M., Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations from April 1970

Agha Khan, Prince Sadruddin, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Agnew, Spiro T., Vice President of the United States, January 1969?October 1973

Ahmad, Khondkar Mushtaq, Vice President of the Awami League and Foreign Minister of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh, April?December 1971

Ahmad, M. M., Deputy Chairman of the Economic Planning Commission in Pakistan, Economic Adviser to President Yahya

Ahmed, Aziz, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan

Ahmed, Tajuddin, General Secretary of the Awami League and Prime Minister of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh, April 1971?January 12, 1972; thereafter Minister of Finance of Bangladesh

Ahsan, Vice Admiral Syed Mohammad, Deputy Martial Law Administrator and Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Navy until August 1969; Governor of East Pakistan, August 1969?February 1971

Ali, Iftikar, Foreign Secretary of the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan from April 1972

Ali, M. Hossain, Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States from December 1972

Ali, Mahmud (Mahood), Head of Pakistan?s delegation to the United Nations General Assembly, October 1971

Alvie, Momtaz A., Additional Foreign Secretary of the Pakistani Foreign Ministry

Annenberg, Walter H., United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom from April 1969

Ayub Khan, Mohammad, President of Pakistan until March 1969

 

Beam, Jacob D., Ambassador to the Soviet Union, March 1969?January 1973

Bhashani, Maulana Abdul Hamid, Leader of the National Awami Party in East Pakistan

Bhutto, Zulfiqar Ali, Chairman of the Pakistan People?s Party; Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister, December 7?December 19, 1971; thereafter President, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Defense of Pakistan

Blee, David H., Chief, Near East and South Asia Division, Directorate of Operations, Central Intelligence Agency

Blood, Archer K., Consul General in Dacca until June 1971

Bowles, Chester, Ambassador to India until April 1969

Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Bush, George H. W., Republican Congressman from Texas until January 1971; Permanent Representative to the United Nations, February 1971?January 1973

 

Cargo, William I., Director of the Policy and Coordination Staff, Department of State

Cargill, Peter, Director, South Asia Department, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)

Chapman, General Leonard F., Jr., Commandant of the Marine Corps until December 1971

Chaudhry, Air Marshal Zafer, Chief of Staff of the Pakistan Air Force from March 1972 

Chavan, Yashwantrao B., Indian Minister of the Interior until June 1970; thereafter, Indian Minister of Finance

Chowdhry, Abu Ayed, President of Bangladesh from January 12, 1972

Cline, Ray S., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, from October 1969

Connally, John B., Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, February 1971?May 1972

Cushman, Lieutenant General Robert E., Jr., USMC, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, May 1969?December 1971

 

Davies, Rodger P., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs

Davis, Jeanne W., Director, National Security Council Staff Secretariat, 1970?1971

DePalma, Samuel, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs

Desai, Morarji Ranchhodji, Indian Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister until July 1969

Dobrynin, Anatoliy F., Soviet Ambassador to the United States

Durrani, S.U., Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan

 

Eilts, Hermann F., Ambassador to Bangladesh from September 1972

Eliot, Theodore L., Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary and Executive Secretary of the Department of State from August 1969

Etemadi, Nur Ahmed, Prime Minister of Afghanistan until May 1971

 

Farhadi, Rawan, Deputy Foreign Minister of Afghanistan

Farland, Joseph S., Ambassador to Pakistan, September 1969?April 1972

Farooqi, Zahir M., Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Pakistan

Firyubin, Nikolai Pavlovich, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union

 

Gandhi, Indira, Prime Minister of India

Giri, Varahagiri Venkata, Vice President of India until May 3, 1969; Acting President, May 3?July 29, 1969; President from August 20, 1969

Gordon, Herbert, Consul General in Calcutta

Green, Marshall, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from May 1969; also, Chairman, Special Group on Southeast Asia from May 1970

Gromyko, Andrei A., Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union

Gross, Nelson, Ambassador, Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State, and Coordinator for International Narcotics Matters

Guyer, Roberto, United Nations Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs

 

Haig, General Alexander M., Jr., Senior Military Adviser to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, January 1969?June 1970; Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, June 1970?January 1973

Haksar, Parmeshwar Narain, Secretary to Prime Minister Gandhi

Haldeman, H. R., Assistant to the President

Hamed, Samad, Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan

Handley, William J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs until May 1969; Ambassador to Turkey, May 1969?April 1973

Hannah, John A., Administrator, Agency for International Development, April 1969?October 1973

Haq, Major General Inam-ul, Director General, Defense Procurement, Pakistan Ministry of Defense

Hassan, Lt. General Gul, Commander-in-Chief, Pakistan Army, from December 1971?March 1972

Helms, Richard M., Director of Central Intelligence until February 1973

Henry, Paul-Marc, Assistant Administrator and Associate Director, Bureau of Operations and Programming, UNDP; Coordinator, UN Relief Operations in Dacca (UNROD), 1971

Hilaly, Agha, Pakistani Ambassador to the United States until September 1971

Holdridge, John H., member of the National Security Council staff, 1970?1972

Hoskinson, Samuel M., member of the National Security Council staff, 1970?1972

Hussain, Zakir, President of India until his death, May 3, 1969

Hughes, Thomas L., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, until August 1969

 

Irwin, John N., II, Under Secretary of State, September 1970?July 1972; thereafter, Deputy Secretary of State

Islam, Syed Nazrul, Acting President of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh, April?December 1971

 

Jha, Lakshmi Kant, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India until May 1970; thereafter, Indian Ambassador to the United States

Johnson, U. Alexis, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from February 1969

Jung, Nawab Ali Yavar, Indian Ambassador to the United States until May 1970

 

Karamessines, Thomas H., Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency

Karim, Muhammad Enayet, Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States, May?August 1972; thereafter Foreign Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Karim, S. A., Foreign Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh until August 1972

Kaul, Triloki Nath, Foreign Secretary of Indian Ministry of External Affairs from February 1969

Keating, Kenneth B., Ambassador to India, May 1969?July 1972

Kellogg, Francis L., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Refugee and Migration Affairs from January 1971; also Chairman of the Interagency Committee on Pakistani Refugee Relief

Kennedy, Richard T., member of the National Security Council staff, January 1970?January 1972

Khan, General Abdul Hamid, Chief of Staff of the Pakistan Army and Deputy Chief Martial Law Administrator

Khan, Abdul Monem, Governor of East Pakistan until March 1969

Khan, Lieutenant General Tikka, Martial Law Administrator and Governor of East Pakistan, February?September 1971; Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army from March 1972

Khan, Nawabzada Nasrullah, Leader, Democratic Action Committee of Pakistan

Khan, Air Marshal Nur, Deputy Martial Law Administrator of Pakistan

Kissinger, Henry A., Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

Kittani, Ismat, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Inter-Agency Affairs; also Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Assistance to East Pakistan

Kosygin, Aleksei N., Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union

 

Laingen, L. Bruce, Deputy Chief of Mission in Afghanistan until July 1971; thereafter Country Director for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State

Laird, Melvin R., Secretary of Defense, January 1969?January 1973

Lall, K. B., Indian Defense Secretary

Lewis, Samuel W., Deputy Chief of Mission in Afghanistan

 

MacDonald, Donald G., Assistant Administrator for Near East and South Asia, Agency for International Development

Mace, Charles, Deputy United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Macomber, William B., Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations until October 1969; thereafter Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration (title changed to Management after July 12, 1971) October 1969?April 1973

Malik, A. M., Special Assistant to President Yahya for Displaced Persons and Relief and Rehabilitation Operations in East Pakistan, July?September 1971; thereafter Governor of East Pakistan

Malik, H. R., Chairman of the East Pakistan Agriculture Development Corporation, 1971

Malikyar, Abdullah, Afghan Ambassador to the United States

Manekshaw, General Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji, Chief of Staff of the Indian Army

Mayo, Robert P., Director, Bureau of the Budget, 1969

McNamara, Robert S., President, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)

Meyer, Armin H., Special Consultant in the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, from April 1972

Mitchell, John, Attorney General, January 1969?February 1972

Moorer, Admiral Thomas H., USN, Chief of Naval Operations until July 1970; thereafter Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

 

Nalle, David, Assistant Director for Near East and South Asia, United States Information Agency

Nass, Charles, Political Counselor at the Embassy in Afghanistan

Narayan, J. P., elder statesman, Indian Congress Party

Niazi, Lt. General Amir Abdullah Khan, Martial Law Administrator for East Pakistan from September 1971

Neumann, Robert G., Ambassador to Afghanistan

Newberry, Daniel O., Deputy Chief of Mission in Afghanistan from October 1972

Nixon, Richard M., President of the United States, January 10, 1969?August 9, 1974

Noyes, James H., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

Nutter, G. Warren, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

 

Oehlert, Benjamin H., Jr., Ambassador to Pakistan until July 1969

 

Packard, David, Deputy Secretary of Defense until December 1971

Peterson, Peter G., Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs, and Executive Director of the Council for International Economic Policy, 1971?January 1972; Secretary of Commerce, January 1972?January 1973

Patel, I. G., Special Secretary, Indian Ministry of Finance

Pickard, Sir Cyril, British High Commissioner in Pakistan

Popper, David H., Ambassador to Cyprus

 

Qaiyum Qazi Zahirul, member of the Pakistan National Assembly, Awami League representative

Quainton, Anthony C .E., Political and Economic Affairs Officer, New Delhi, 1969; thereafter member of the Office of Nepal, India, Ceylon, and Maldives Islands, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs

 

Rahman, Sheikh Mujibur, (Mujib), President of the Awami League; Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Bangladesh from January 1972

Ram Jagjivan, Indian Minister of Defense from June 1970

Rasgotra, Maharajakrishna, Minister for Political Affairs of the Indian Embassy in the United States

Raza, Major General Nawabzada Agha Mohammad, Pakistani Ambassador to the United States, November 1971?April 1972

Rees, C. Herbert, Director of the Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau for Near East and South Asia, Agency for International Development

Richardson, Elliot L., Under Secretary of State, January 1969?June 1970

Rockwell, Stuart W., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs

Rogers, William P., Secretary of State, January 1969?September 1973

Rush, Kenneth, Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, July 1969?February 1972; Deputy Secretary of Defense, February 1972?January 1973

Ryan, General John D., Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force

 

Sathe, R. D., Joint Secretary, Indian Ministry of External Affairs

Samad, Abdus, Foreign Minister of Bangladesh

Sarabi, Abdul Wahed, Afghan Minister of Planning

Saunders, Harold H., member of the National Security Council staff

Scali, John, Special Consultant to the President, January 1971?January 1973

Schlesinger, James R., Assistant Director, Bureau of the Budget, 1969; Acting Deputy Director, 1969?1970; Assistant Director, Office of Management and Budget, 1970?1971; thereafter, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission

Schneider, David T., Country Director for India, Ceylon, Nepal, and the Maldives Islands, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, from August 1969

Selden, Armistead I., Jr., Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

Seraj, Dr. Majid, Afghan Minister of Public Health

Sethi P. B., Indian Minister of State for Finance

Shafiq, Mohammad Moussa, Afghan Foreign Minister, July 1971?December 1972; thereafter also Prime Minister

Shahi, Agha, Pakistani Permanent Representative to the United Nations

Shakespeare, Frank, Director, United States Information Agency, February 1969?February 1973

Sher Ali Mohammad, Pakistani Minister of Information and National Affairs

Shultz, George P., Secretary of Labor, January 1969?July 1970; Director, Office of Management and the Budget, July 1970?May 1972; Secretary of the Treasury, and also Assistant to the President, May 1972?May 1974; also head of the Council on Economic Policy from December 1972

Singh, Dinesh, Minister of External Affairs of India, February 1969?June 1970

Singh, Kewal, Foreign Secretary of the Foreign Ministry of India from November 1972

Singh, Swaran, Indian Minister of Defense until June 1970; thereafter Minister of External Affairs

Sisco, Joseph J., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs until February 1969; thereafter, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; also Chairman of the NSC Interdepartmental Group for the Near East and South Asia

Sober, Sidney, Director of the Office of Regional Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State until November 1969, thereafter Deputy Chief of Mission in Pakistan

Sonnenfeldt, Helmut, member of the National Security Council staff, 1969?1972

Sorabi, Abdul Wahid, Minister of Planning of Afghanistan

Spain, James W., Director of the Office of Pakistan and Afghanistan Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, January?July 1969; Charg? d? Affaires in Pakistan, July?November 1969; thereafter Country Director for Pakistan

Spengler, William F., Country Director for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, July 1970?July 1971

Spiers, Ronald I., Director, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State, September 1969?August 1973

Spivack, Herbert D., Consul General in Dacca, June 1971?September 1972

Stans, Maurice, Secretary of Commerce, January 1969?January 1972

Stone, Galen L., Charg? d?Affaires in India from August 1969

Sultan Khan, Mohammad, Foreign Secretary of the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan until April 1972, thereafter Pakistani Ambassador to the United States

 

Timmons, William, Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, January 1969?February 1970; thereafter, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs

Thant, U, Secretary-General of the United Nations until December 1971

 

Van Hollen, Christopher, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, May 1969?September 1972; thereafter, Ambassador to Sri Lanka

Volcker, Paul A., Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs

Vorontsov, Yuli M., Minister of the Soviet Embassy in the United States

 

Waldheim, Kurt, Austrian Permanent Representative to the United Nations until December 31, 1971; thereafter, Secretary-General

Weinberger, Caspar W., Deputy Director, Office of Management and the Budget, July 1970?May 1972; Director, May 1972?January 1973; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare

Westmoreland, General William C., Chief of Staff, U.S. Army until June 30, 1972

Williams, Maurice J., Deputy Administrator, Agency for International Development; Chairman of Interdepartmental Working Group on East Pakistan Disaster Relief

Winspeare-Guicciardi, Vittorio, Under Secretary General of the UN and head of the UN?s Geneva office, appointed at the end of December 1971 as Special Representative of the Secretary General to deal with the humanitarian problems growing out of the conflict in South Asia

 

Yahya Khan, General Agha Mohammad, Chief Martial Law Administrator, President, Minister of Defense, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, March 1969?December 1971

Yost, Charles W., United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations, January 1969?February 1971

Yung, Ali Yavar, Indian Ambassador to the United States until May 1970

 

Zahir, Abdul, Afghan Prime Minister, June 1971?December 1972

Zahir, Mohammad, King of Afghanistan

Ziegler, Ronald L., Press Secretary to the President, January 1969?January 1973

Zumwalt, Admiral Elmo R., Jr., Chief of Naval Operations

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