SANITIZED COPY SC No, 7942/71 APPROVED FOR RELEASE DDATE:AUG 2001 - CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE Agency , . Directorate of Intelliqence 16 December 1971 INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM : \ ‘India-Pakistan Situation Repdrt + (As of 1600 ES) Banyla_Desh~-The Now Government! 1% ip Shape 1. Bn official spokesman in Nop Delhi said foaky that the new civil administratlon in Bangla Desh is expected to take over: tonorzbw, and Indian Defpnse Scoretary Lail has announced] that four memers of the Bengali government {1pw to Dacca todhy to form a. transitional governmpnt. Lall furfher asserted that the question of repatriation jest Pakistani soldiers who have become prisoners of ar would be negotiated between thdia and Pakis- tan|"at such a time when the aggression against us in 12958 ‘acnct-25yes En 12958 = athite)>25¥rs (c) SANITIZED COPY repprt, an Government Wr. se Desh havea nationally based 13-02. 2 her than one like the present provisional xnment, which is dominated by thi Awami League. Awami League has been resisting,| but Prime ister Gandhi reportedly has come |to an agree- It with the nine-man Consultative \comittee which Audes pro-Moscow Communists and vias formed several ths ago, According to the agreement, the Consult-. ! Native Committee will form the nucleys of the:new Bengali government. what would hapron to the pre- it members of the government is unclear. NARA, Date 3. £3 £58 Pager) 3. The Indian Army will not wilttidraw fron Eagt Bengal until it is satisfied tilat the MuktL i Balini does not constitute a threat |to the new DECLASSIFIED E.0, 12958, Sect. 3.6 W/BACKGROUND [USE ONLY DISSEM ABROAD /CONTRODENDHme's stability. To this end, th txucted to isolate extreme radic: the irregular forces. It is ik former police units will be all ix security roles; the frontier Bengali Rifles willbe disbande ders hope that policing activiti ly will be -kept to a minimum, say le army has been 1 elements with- iy that only Wied to continue guards and Indian by the Indian 4, Press reports also/that Ingian forces wiih remain in Bast Bengal for an indefinite period of |time. rt will reportedly be the esponsibility lthe Unified Indian Bongali Commar lage caused by the Pakistani occ [Indian Government spokesman has fies of the Unified Command as th the repatriation of the refugees| fescribed (i to repair the ation forces." restoration of, taley, thé rehabilitation of public utilities, “rangueniont: : 5. The New Delhi domestic exe describes | the| terms of the Pakistani surrender} as follows | 1) | all Pakistani armed forces.in thp eastern wing eo are| to surrender to Lieutenant Generpl Aurora, ' the| Indian commander-in-chief of the| Indian and pla Desh forces; 2) the surrendez| Pakistanis in land, naval, and pI pes; 3) these forces will lay dow pe they are currently located and! nearest regular troops; 4) the 2 Compand will then be under tho ordez| Aurbra, whose decisions will be final intbrpretation of the terms of surre| 6. Aurora gave assurances that] onhel will be treated with digni safety. of all those who surrende| undertook to offer protection t onals, ethnic minorities, and pe} stani’ origin, per the| als nat. Pak shall include ramilitary their arms surrender to hkistani Eastern of General regarding dex. all surrendering y and guaranteed to him. He all foreign ple of West ACKGROUND Eo 12958 3ACMIED>25Yts SE ONLY {0ro 1958 + to return safely to Bangla Das! —FoP-stckeT 012958 3.4IbIO>25Vrs j rc) ISEN/BACKGROUND US}. ONLY NO DISSEM ABROAD, + On the morning of 16 Decembext Bangla Desh povernment representatives handed Major Generpl Jacob, chicf-of-stags for the ltndian Aemy’ Eastern Command, the following for conditions to be imposed upon the Pakistani Government: 1) Sheik Mujib shoula bo keturned safely to Bangla Desh; 2) Bengalis Lying in west Pakistan should be permitted to return safely to Bangin Desh; 3) Bengali members of the! Pakistan Amned rorees in West Pakistan should bb permitted h, and the Pakistan Army fin East Bengal should surrender its weapons and elyaipnent to the joiae ander sande military commahid; and 4) Pakistan Prime Miniot designate Nurul) Awin and other Bengali "quislings” shold be Zepatiated to Bangla D uggestions weg trial. According Samnen>25Vrs ror958 sannen26Vrs te) rou9s8 SalutH=26 rs Co) of the above ‘formation, the Indian Government alsp plans to denarla compensation irom pakistan for fenaian mi lin tary personnel losses during. the hostilities as well fas for military equipment damaged or destroyed, is. baer | that faue ie xOUE Of the army in bast Partstan, \Pakistant army officers are agitated egainst Presifient Yahya. “They apparently plaite him for Fefusing to allow them to take the iniltiative in Bhe yest with heavy armor. They seem|to be accusing him of waiting Zor an anticipated Communist Chinese intervention and of having an exaggerated fear of some |type of Soviet intervention. “Militlary Aid to Pakistan Jordan will supply Pakistan ith [18,000 rounds of 20 mm amu Jorddnian planes to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia where Saudi C-130s will pick i+ nn or delivery. to Pakistan, '-130s tg Jordan to small ammunition to Pakis: 6 have sent severat trandport spare parts and stan} the Saudis reque: selvds ly the lates i D/COW 10) BACKGROUND UGE ONLY £0 12958 3amnitN>25¥rs