Backchannel
Message from the Ambassador to Pakistan (Farland) to the President's Assistant
for National Security Affairs (Kissinger)/1/
/1/ Source:
National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 426,
Backchannel Files, Backchannel Messages, 1971, Amb.
[number not
declassified] 1. Met with Yahya 0930 hours local this morning./2/ In
conversation judiciously drew from info contained your wire of the 24th./3/
Specifically assured Yahya that President is personally involved in all aspects
of the problem.
/2/ This
conversation was also reported to the Department of State in telegram 11696
from
/3/ Document
201.
2. Yahya is
continuing to exercise maximum restraint, but expressed regretfully that there
was limit thereto in event
3. If tilt
towards Pakistan becomes evident, and as further proof of GOI's military
aggression becomes public, you might wish consider cut-off of military spare
parts to India as evidence even-handed policy in subcontinent.
Source: Document 204, volume XI,