DECLASSINIED Authority By Du_ NARA Date // 0B Pot 27-VAhen -PAK Department of State TELEGRAM CONFIDENTIAL 14a Pace VSLAMA 988s] 3107337 15 ACTION NEA=12 INFO OcT#21 IN-12 AqD~20 1Gasm2 SR-e2 ORH-O3 CIAE-CO DODE-@9 PHS eee [NR-O9 L+O3 NSAEBO NSC+10 P-03 = 2e-lg -af WBE TIVO Rscral PRE-e1 ssri4 Ustacie R.3}76352 OCT 72 FH AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD TH _SECSTATE WASHDC 6596 INED AMEMBASEY DACA ANCONSUL KARACHT AMCONSUL LAHORE AMEMBASSY NEw DELWE USMISSION GELEVA USHISSION USUN NEW YORK CONF IDENT IAL ISLAMABAD Bnei OINT EMBASSY/ATD MESSAGE SUBUECT! BENGALTS IN PAKISTAN 06 2 DB x PAK REF: “Sas Tslabaead 590% As DACCA Hand ty INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE DACCA REPRESENTATIVE JAC SHIT, CURRENTLY VISITING ISLAMABAD, MADE FOLLOWING COMENTS IN CONVERSATIONS HITH AID AND EMBASSY OFFICERSt Ae SHIT HAD BEEN ASKED BY SHETKH MUJIB TO come TO PAKISTAN TO INVESTIGATE STATUS OF LOeAL BENGALIS AND TO REPORT TO MUJIB WHAT HE LEARNED IN SYMPATHETIC AND OBJECTIVE MANNERS Be Iv KARACHT® SHIT Hap VISITED ALMOST EVERY CONCENTRATION OF BENGALIS AND HAD BECOME CONVINCED THAT. WHILE AT PRESENT POORrST RENGALIS ARE IN SLIGHTLY RETTER CONDITION THAN POOREST BIHARIS IN BANGLADESH, THEY WILL NEED SOME RELIEF ASSISTANCE WITHIN NEXT MONTH OR THOe uesDECLASSIEED ators 1A; by Dd_ Nana due a Department of State TELEGRAM CONFIDENTIAL PAGE @2 ISLaMA gmB41 3107932 + IN MIS DISCUSSIONS WITH I¢RC DELEGATE CLERC IN KARACHT ANO NITH TeR¢ CHIEF DELEGATE TeStUZ IN ISLAvASADs SHIT FOUND THAT THEIR OPINIONS GN CONDITIONS OF SENGALIS COINCIDED WITH HIS, EXCEPT THAT PROFESSOR CLERC BELIEVED MANY BENGALIS WOULD NEED ASSISTANCE AS EARLY AS NOV 15, SMIT AND IcRC DELEGATES HAD REACHED AGREEMENT THT TRC MaULD SUPPORT RELIEF EFFORT UNDER ICRC UNBRELLas EVEN TO POINT OF SECONDING IR¢ EMPLOYEES TO 1cRC FOR. THREE OR FOUR MaNTHS SmIT PLANNED TO TELEGRAPH THIS PROPOSAL TO HIS HEAD OFFICE IN NEW YORK BEFORE LEAVING PAKISTAN Ds SHIT FOUND Ay Ke Ms AWSAN, CHAIRMAN OF CENTRAL GENGALI WELFARE COMMITTEE IN ISLAHARADs TO RF AU EOURANT ON GENERAL CONDITIONS OF AENGALIS» AND TO SE ROTH THOUGHTFUL AND PRAGMATIC A30UT WHAT BENGALIS SHOULD DO. TO HELP EACH OTHER. AHSAN ASKED SHIT TELL SHEI WHO TOLD EMBOEr THAT PILGRIMS HAD COME IN GROUP Tn WEST PAKISTAN IN SUMMER OF 1971 ACCORDING TeSTUZs SIMILAR GROUP OF WEST PAKISTANIS MaD GONE TO EAST PAKISTAN AT SAME TIME BUT GOP WAS MAKING NO ATTEMPT To HOLD QUT FOR EXCHANGE OF PILGRIMS IN THIS CASE. MOWEVER, TESTUZ SAID NE HAD ENCOUNTERED SNAG BECAUSE INnIA HAD THUS FAR 92FUSED RIGHT OF PASCAGE TO PILGRIMS, NONETHELESS, IF THEY al TAL.DECLASSIFIED Author By Dd NARADate 08 oie Department of State TELEGRAM CONFIDENT TAL. PAGE 03 ISLAMA a8@y{ a10733Z COULD NOT BE SENT OVERLAND» HE_FELT CERTAIN TCR COULD FIND SHIP ON WHICH TO RETURN PILGRIMS 10 BANGLADESH. IN PASSING, HE NOTED PARALLEL ATTEMPT ON HIS PART TO NEGOTIATE RETURN TO SANGLADESH OF 26 CATHOLIC SEMINARIANS WHO KEPE STRANDED BY Kar IN KARACHI. 2s COMMENT: SHIT APPEARED To Us TO SF KNOWLENGEABLE AND CAREFUL OBSERVER, HIS READING OF CONDITIONS OF LOCAL BENGALTS COINCIDES GENERALLY KITH GURS Gos INGRAHAMDECLASSIEIED sitonty AD: ‘By DU_ NARADate JOO POLLED mwain- PAK Department of State TELEGRAM @ CONFIDENTIAL 33” PAGE el NEW OE 13288 q40e44z 1 ACTION Meas 12 INFO OcT=a1 [0-12 AiD-2a SR-92 ORW-03 [GA~oz™ Tea OMB, CIAE+@9 DODE+ea PH-m8 Haz INR~P9 L~e3) NSAE-0@ NSC~19 Peas PSC-r1 PRs-a1 SS-14 UStAn1e 120 x : : e371) Rogugeeaz NOV 72 FY ANEMBASSY NEW DELHI TO-SECSTATE KASHDC 9528 INFO ANEMBASSY DACCK Ustission Geneva AMCONSUL KARACHT AMEMPASSY [SLAMABAD AMCONSUL LAHORE USUN NY 1463 ep it ge CTU TG CONFIDENT IA (NEW OELHT 13286 SUBU1 BENGALTS IN PAKISTAN REF 1 ISLAMABAD 8841 Poe 27.9 Leker -ONK Le SUMMARY! JAC SMIT OF INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE (1RCI» SUSG=STED TC BANGLADESH HIGH COMMISSIONER NEw CELHI NOVEMBER 3) THAT ED PROVIDE MONEY TO NEEDY BENGALI IN PAKISTAN THROUGH THIRD PARTY. ED HIGH COMMISSIONER OFFERED TO PROVIDE INOTAN RUPEE TO EMAASSY FOR THIS PURPOSE« ENBOFFS TOLO SMITH IT PROBABLY PREFERABLE IF 8DG COULD ARRANGE TRANSFER FROM DACCA WITHOUT INVOLVING USG. ACTION REQUESTED: DERT+s DACCA AND KARACHL CONSIDERATION ON POSSIBILITIES FOR TRANSFERs END SUMMARY+ 2s SHIT TOLD EMROFFS THAT AS RESULT HIS VISIT PAKISTAN (REFTELD AND “ABUL HE CONVINCED ADG SHOULD PROVIDE MONEY--ABOUT DOLS 5,000 PER MONTH=--TO BENGALTS IN PAKISTAN IN MANNER SO THAT IT WOULD APPEAP_TO COME FROM THIRD PARTY GUT WOULD BE UNDERSTOOD BY sENGALTS To COME FROM EDG+ SHIT BELIEVES THIS IMPORTANT! (Al TO OFFSET INCENTIVE NOW OFFERED FOR SENGALIS TO ESCAPE VIA KABUL» AND TRL TO SIGNAL D6 CONCERN FOR THOSE BENGALI REMATNING IN PAKISTANS PROPOSED RECIPIENTS WOULD BE Ase ASHAN, CHATRMAN OF CENTRAL CONFIDENTIALDECLASSIFIED. Aor By SD wana Dae BO Department of State TELEGRAM CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 92 NEK DE 19286 quesuez BENGALI WELFARE COMMITTEE: IN. ISLAMASADs AND FAZUL KARIM, PRESTDENT 80 RELIEF COMMITTEE IN SIND» WHO MOULD PASS IT ON TO NEEDY BENGALIS [N THETR AREAS. 3s SHIT REPORTED HE FLOATED THIS IDEx WITH AD HIGH COMMISSIONER IN NEW DELHI» AeR+ MALLICKs HHO NOTED THAT HE HAD INDIAN RUPEES FOR ASSISTING BENGALIS IN PAKISTANs WHILE THIS NOW BEING USED FOR THOSE ESCAPING VIA KABULs MALLICK FELT HE COULD STRETCH INSTRUCTIONS TO COVER DONATION OF HONEY To THOSE STILL TN PakISTANe WHEN SMIT SUGGESTED TRANSFER BE MADE THROUGH [SHALLIS IN LONDON, EHURCH WORLD SERVICE (CSW) IN NEW YORKs OR Uscy MALLICK IMMEDIATELY OPTED FOR LATTER ROUTE hs ShIT SAYS HE DISCUSSED POSSIBILITY TRANSFER VIA USG MITH EMBOFFS IN ISLAMABAD AND KARACHI, ALTHOUGH HE WAS THEN THINKING OF TRANSFER WHICH WOULD ORIGINATE IN DACCA RATHER THAN DELHI + HIS OWN PREFERENCE IS FOR TRANSFER THOUGH ISMAILIS OR CHS, AND HE MADE THIS CLEAR TO MALLICK SHIT AELIEVES MALLICK PREFERS WORKING THOUGH USG SEAUSE IT HANDY AND RELTABLEs BUT HE DOES NOT PEVECT POSSIBILITY THAT MALLICK SEES THIS AS OPPORTUNITY TO INVOLVE USG ON SIDE OF 8DG 48 FAR AS AENGALTS IN PAKISTAN CON~ CERKED+ $+ EPBOFFS SAID IF EMBASSY OR ‘NY OTHER BODY IN INDIA ACCEPTED INDIAN RUPEES AND ARRANGED PAYMENT TO SENGALE LEADERS IN PaKISTANs IT HOULD AMOUNT To CIRCUMVENTION OF INDIAN FOREIGN EXCHANGE REGULATIONS» AND FOR THAT REASON ALONE USG WOULD BE UNASLE ASSIST« EMADFFS NOTE USG MIGHT NOT KISH TO BECOME INVOLVED EVEN IF THIS NOT FACTOR AND SUGGESTED IT MOULD BE PREFERABLE FOR BDG IN DACCAy WHICH. SHOULO ORIGINATE DOWATION [N ANY caSés TO ARRANGE TRANSFER THROUGH TSMATLISs CHS, SWISS GOVERNMENT OR OTHER GROUP} WE PROMISED HOKEVER To REPORT SUGGESTION TO WASHINGTON AND DACCAy b+ ACTION REQUESTED! SUGGEST DEPT» CONSIDER WHAT REPLY SHOULO BE MADE TO SHIT AFTER HE RETURNS TO DACCA NOVEMBER @+ DACCA AND KARACHI M&Y KISH To COMMENT ON USG INVOLVEMENT IN DIRECT TRANSFER FROM DACCA AND PRACTICABILITY OF OTHER ROUTES AVAILABLE TO apg. WE DO NOT RPT NOT PROPOSE TO DISCUSS ISSUE WITH MALLICK HERE UNLESS INSTRUCTED. GDS+ STONE CONFIDENTIAL a2