Foreign Relations,
1969-1976, Volume XI, South Asia Crisis, 1971
Released by the
Office of the Historian
Abshire, David M., Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations from April 1970 Agha Khan, Prince Sadruddin, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 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 Atherton, Alfred L., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from March 1970 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 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 Chavan, Yashwantrao B., Indian Minister of the Interior until June 1970; thereafter, 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 Treasury, February 1971-May 1972 Cromer, Earl of, British Ambassador to the United States 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 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 Douglas-Home, Sir Alec, British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from June 1970
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 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
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 Heath, Edward, British Prime Minister from June 1970 Helms, Richard M., Director of Central Intelligence until February 1973 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 Huang Hua, Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations Hughes, Thomas L., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, until August 1969 Hussain, Zakir, President of India until his death, May 3, 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 March 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 the 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 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 Klein, Herbert G., White House Director of Communications from January 1969 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 Lewis, Samuel W., Deputy Chief of Mission in Afghanistan Lord, Winston, member of the National Security Council staff Luppi, Hobart, Consul General in Karachi, Pakistan
MacDonald, Donald G., Assistant Administrator for Near East and South Asia, Agency for International Development Malek, Frederick, Special Assistant to the President with responsibility for personnel operations 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 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
Naas, Charles, Political Counselor at the Embassy in Afghanistan 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 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 June 1969
Packard, David, Deputy Secretary of Defense from January 1969 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 Pickard, Sir Cyril, British High Commissioner in Pakistan
Qaiyum, Qazi Zahirul, member of the Pakistan National Assembly, Awami League representative
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 until 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 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 Maldive Islands, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, from August 1969 Selden, Armistead, I., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Seraj, Dr. Majid, Afghan Minister of Public Health Shafiq, Mohammad Moussa, Afghan Foreign Minister, July 1971-December 1972; thereafter also Prime Minister Shakespeare, Frank, Director, United States Information Agency, February 1969-February 1973 Shultz, George P., Secretary of Labor, January 1969-June 1970; first Director of the Office of Management and Budget, June 1970-May 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; Chargˇ d'Affaires in Pakistan, July-November 1969; thereafter Country Director for Pakistan and Afghanistan until July 1970. Spengler, William F., Country Director for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, July 1970-July 1971 Spivack, Herbert D., Consul General in Dacca, June 1971-September 1972 Stans, Maurice, Secretary of Commerce, January 1969-January 1972 Stone, Galen L., Chargˇ d'Affaires in India from August 1969 Sultan Khan, Mohammad, Foreign Secretary of the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan until April 1972, thereafter 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
Wali, Major General Sardar Abdul, Commander of the Central Forces of Afghanistan Weinberger, Caspar W., Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget, July 1970-May 1972; Director, May 1972-January 1973 Williams, Maurice J., Deputy Administrator, Agency for International Development; Chairman of Interdepartmental Working Group on East Pakistan Disaster Relief
Yaftali, Abdullah, Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan until July 1971 Yahya Khan, General Agha Mohammad, Chief Martial Law Administrator, President, Minister of Defense, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, March 1969- December 1971 Young, David, Jr., member of the National Security Council staff from January 1970 Yung, Ali Yavar, Indian Ambassador to the United States until May 1970 Yusuf, S. M., Foreign Secretary of the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan until April 1972
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., Chief of Naval Operations
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