MESSAGE FOR AMBASSADOR FARLAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-450-6-12-2
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 5, 2012
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: November 23, 1971
• Content Type: MEMO

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SECRET November 23, 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR:
DR. KISSINGER
HAROLD H. SAUNDERS
Message for Ambassador Farland
NSS/NSC, State Dept.
reviews completed
Ambassador Farland has sent you the two messages at Tab B supple-
menting his reporting through State Department channels with a personal
assessment to you.
It would probably be a good idea at this point at least to send him a
brief acknowledgment so as to keep this channel open. The first two
paragraphs of the message at Tab A. to be sent back channelare drafted
for this minimal purpose.
There is a third paragraph in the message as I have drafted it, which
could be dropped. The point here is that Farland in his last message
indicated that President Yahya seems fixed on his political timetable
and is not inclined to be side-tracked by getting Mujib into the act.
If this is the case and if we were to have a little more time, we would be
in the business of trying to argue with Mrs. Gandhi to let Yahya's time-
table play itself out. It seems to me worthwhile to ask Farland what the
maximum argument is that we can use with the Indiana in making this
case if we choose to. However, if you do not like this idea the telegram
could be sent with paragraph 3 just dropped.
RECOMMENDATION: That you authorize sending the back channel
message at Tab A to Ambassador Farland.
Approved
SECRET
Send it without paragraph 3
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Amembassy ISLAMABAD
FOR: AMBASSADOR FARLAND EYES ONLY
FROM, HENRY A. KISSINGER
1. Appreciate your personal assessments of the situation and note
particularly your sense that Yahya is showing signs of pressure and
beginning to feel cornered. I have been following your reporting closely
and recognize your sense of urgency.
Want you to know that I am chairing daily meetings of the WSAG
and the President is personally engaged. Would certainly welcome
any suggestions on steps you feel might be useful.
3. if the current fighting escalates, hope of movement on Yahya's
political plan of action could be overtaken. If it still has a chance,
however, our problem is how to persuade the Indians to give it a chance.
They may--I might even say probably--have already decided not to
give it a chance. But we may have opportunity to make one final
argument with Mrs. Gandhi. We certainly do not want to compromise
Yahya's process or make him appear to be weakening before Indian
pressure. But if there is anything that could be said privately to the
Indians here on what the Bengalis can expect to get out of this political
process, it would be helpful to have. Again, I emphasize that I am not
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suggesting pressure on Yahya or concessions by him:. We are simply
groping for ways to present the case for his process in a way that might
have maximum cogency for Indians. The argument we would be trying
to make is that if Mrs. Gandhi just keeps the lid on the East Pakistanis
can have a political framework within which to develop autonomy without
the costs of a prolonged war.
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