Secret
Memorandum
for Mr. Henry A Kissinger
The
White House
From:
Theodore Eliot Jr
Subject:
Contingency Paper on Military Supply for
There
are a number of possible options in the event a policy decision were taken to
attempt, through military supply to Pakistan, to deter further Indian action
against West Pakistan.
These
options in ascending scale of magnitude are as follows:
1. Return to the April 1967 military supply policy
toward
2. Reactivation of the 1970 one-time exception to
our arms embargo. This would involve the sale of about 20 planes and 300
armored personnel carriers. The one-time exception has been held in abeyance
since April 1967.
3. Transfer from third-country stocks of U.S.
supplied lethal end items; e.g., from Jordan or Iran. This would require a prior
policy decision that we were willing to supply these items directly to
Pakistan.
4. Direct U.S. sales or grants of lethal end items
directly to Pakistan.
There
are no legal impediments to resumption of military supply to Pakistan should
the President make a policy decision to do so. To date, all actions taken to
revoke or restrict licenses for the export of military goods to Pakistan have
been based on the exercise of the President's general authority to control the
export of military goods "in the furtherance of world peace and the
security and foreign policy of the United States." New licenses for such
exports could, therefore, be issued upon an appropriate policy determination
that such issuance would be in the furtherance of the above objectives. Similarly,
there would be no legal obstacles to resuming grant assistance or FMS sales for
cash or credit.
Theodore
L. Eliot, Jr.
Executive
Secretary
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