Persons
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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