can be said that prior to the war between India and Pakistan in 1965, American grant military aid to Pakistan, including military training for thousands of Pakistanis, amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars. As a result of the India-Pakistan conflict, in September 1965 the United States placed an embargo on further shipments of military equipment to both countries. Since that time, however, although the Communist Chinese have been the main source of arms supplies for Pakistan, the Unified States has also furnished certain military equipment to the Pakistanis. For example, in the letter dated April 23, referred to above, it is stated.
Since we terminated MAP grant assistance and suspended military sales to Pakistan and India in 1965, we have supplied no lethal end-items to Pakistan. After resuming a limited military sales program to both countries in 1966-67, we have sold to Pakistan, predominantly for cash, only non lethal equipment and spare parts and ammunition for arms previously supplied by us. Non-lethal items have included trainer and transport aircraft; transport equipment such as trucks and jeeps and communications, medical and engineering equipment. Ammunition in various calibres for weapons supplied prior to the embargo in 1965 has comprised less than 15 percent of the total sales program since 1966. We have continued to sell spare parts and ammunition in order to keep previously supplied U. S. equipment operational, in the belief that to allow this equipment to become inoperative would compel Pakistan to purchase more expensive and modem replacements, diverting resources from economic development to defense and fueling an arms race in the Subcontinent.
The April 23 letter also states that in October 1970 the Administration announced a “one-time exception to our military supply policy to sell Pakistan a limited quantity of arms.” As Senator Case pointed out when he introduced S. Con. Res. 21. the equipment involved consists of armored personnel carriers, modified patrol aircraft, fighter planes (F-104's) and bombers (B-57's). None of these items have been delivered and nothing is in the pipeline. It should be noted, however, that although U. S. officials have suspended discussions on these sales, the offer to sell the equipment has not been resinded.
INACCESSIBILITY OF INFORMATION
Wafaturately because the State Department refused to furnish curtained developments the Committee has had to rely on unofficial sources for information relating to developments in East Pakistan. In this connection, the Committee received a letter (dated April 9, 1971) written by Mr. Jon E. Rhode, an employee of the United States Public Health Service, which states in Part as follows:
আমেরিকান সরকারী দলিল পত্র অধ্যায়ে দ্রষ্টব্য।
*** As a result of complete press censorship and expulsion of journalist banning of the major political party in Pakistan, and repressed information about the military campaign against the civilians of East Pakistan, it probably has been difficult for you to obtain a clear picture of events since that date. From the outset of the army action, the American Consul General. Mr. Archer Blood, and his staff in Dacca have continued to send detailed factual accounts enumerating first hand reports of the situation. These reports have been carefully collected and verified before transmission to the State Department.
