Memorandum From
the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to Acting
Secretary of State Irwin/1/
/1/
Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 759,
Presidential Correspondence File, Pakistan (1971). Secret; Nodis. Copies were sent to the Secretary of Defense,
the Director of Central Intelligence, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff. Under Secretary Irwin was Acting Secretary of State while Secretary
Rogers was on a 2-week trip beginning April 26 to attend a SEATO meeting in
SUBJECT
Letter to President Yahya
In
response to the suggestion in the Acting Secretary of State's memorandum of
April 27 that the President review the substance of the paper prepared on
Pakistan for the Senior Review Group,/2/ the President has reviewed the options
and approved the attached letter/3/ to President Yahya.
/2/
Irwin's April 27 memorandum to Nixon is ibid.,
/3/
Document 41.
A draft of this letter was attached to Irwin's memorandum to the President.
As a result
of this review, he has decided that our posture should be one of making a
serious effort to help President Yahya bring an end
to civil strife and achieve a peaceful settlement of the political problems
which triggered it. While adjustments in some of our programs will be
necessitated by the situation, these will be for development reasons only and
not as a facade for application of political pressure. He recognizes that the
only long-term prospect of restoring normal life in
The
President also requested that the foregoing guidance be passed by the
Department of State to Ambassador Farland in a
restricted channel.
Haig/4/
/4/ Haig signed for Kissinger above Kissinger's typed
signature.