Office of the Historian

Persons

  • Abshire, David M., Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations from April 1970
  • Agha Khan, Prince Sadruddin, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
  • Ahmad, Khondkar Mushtaq, Vice President of the Awami League and Foreign Minister of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh April–December 1971
  • Ahmad, M. M., Deputy Chairman of the Economic Planning Commission in Pakistan, Economic Adviser to President Yahya
  • Ahmed, Aziz, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan
  • Ahmed, Tajuddin, General Secretary of the Awami League and Prime Minister of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh, April 1971–January 12, 1972; thereafter Minister of Finance of Bangladesh
  • Ahsan, Vice Admiral Syed Mohammad, Deputy Martial Law Administrator and Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Navy until August 1969; Governor of East Pakistan, August 1969–February 1971
  • Ali, Iftikar, Foreign Secretary of the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan from April 1972
  • Ali, M. Hossain, Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States from December 1972
  • Atherton, Alfred L., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from March 1970
  • Ayub Khan, Mohammad, President of Pakistan until March 1969
  • Beam, Jacob D., Ambassador to the Soviet Union, March 1969–January 1973
  • Bhashani, Maulana Abdul Hamid, Leader of the National Awami Party in East Pakistan
  • Bhutto, Zulfiqar Ali, Chairman of the Pakistan Peopleʼs Party; Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister, December 7–December 19, 1971; thereafter President, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Defense of Pakistan
  • Blood, Archer K., Consul General in Dacca until June 1971
  • Bowles, Chester, Ambassador to India until April 1969
  • Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Bush, George H. W., Republican Congressman from Texas until January 1971; Permanent Representative to the United Nations, February 1971–January 1973
  • Cargo, William I., Director of the Policy and Coordination Staff, Department of State
  • Chavan, Yashwantrao B., Indian Minister of the Interior until June 1970; thereafter, Minister of Finance
  • Chowdhry, Abu Ayed, President of Bangladesh from January 12, 1972
  • Cline, Ray S., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, from October 1969
  • Connally, John B., Jr., Secretary of Treasury, February 1971–May 1972
  • Cromer, Earl of, British Ambassador to the United States
  • Cushman, Lieutenant General Robert E., Jr., USMC, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, May 1969–December 1971
  • Davies, Rodger P., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
  • DePalma, Samuel, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
  • Desai, Morarji Ranchhodji, Indian Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister until July 1969
  • Dobrynin, Anatoliy F., Soviet Ambassador to the United States
  • Douglas-Home, Sir Alec, British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from June 1970
  • Eilts, Hermann F., Ambassador to Bangladesh from September 1972
  • Eliot, Theodore L., Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary and Executive Secretary of the Department of State from August 1969
  • Etemadi, Nur Ahmed, Prime Minister of Afghanistan until May 1971
  • Farhadi, Rawan, Deputy Foreign Minister of Afghanistan
  • Farland, Joseph S., Ambassador to Pakistan, September 1969–April 1972
  • Firyubin, Nikolai Pavlovich, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union
  • Gandhi, Indira, Prime Minister of India
  • Giri, Varahagiri Venkata, Vice President of India until May 3,1969; Acting President, May 3–July 29, 1969; President from August 20, 1969
  • Gordon, Herbert, Consul General in Calcutta
  • Green, Marshall, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from May 1969; also Chairman, Special Group on Southeast Asia from May 1970
  • Gromyko, Andrei A., Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union
  • Haig, General Alexander M., Jr., Senior Military Adviser to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, January 1969–June 1970; Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, June 1970–January 1973
  • Haksar, Parmeshwar Narain, Secretary to Prime Minister Gandhi
  • Haldeman, H.R., Assistant to the President
  • Hamed, Samad, Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan
  • Handley, William J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs until May 1969; Ambassador to Turkey, May 1969–April 1973
  • Hannah, John A., Administrator, Agency for International Development, April 1969–October 1973
  • Haq, Major General Inam-ul, Director General, Defense Procurement, Pakistan Ministry of Defense
  • Heath, Edward, British Prime Minister from June 1970
  • Helms, Richard M., Director of Central Intelligence until February 1973
  • Hilaly, Agha, Pakistani Ambassador to the United States until September 1971
  • Holdridge, John H., member of the National Security Council staff, 1970–1972
  • Hoskinson, Samuel M., member of the National Security Council staff, 1970–1972
  • Huang Hua, Permanent Representative of the Peopleʼs Republic of China to the United Nations
  • Hughes, Thomas L., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, until August 1969
  • Hussain, Zakir, President of India until his death, May 3, 1969
  • Irwin, John N., II, Under Secretary of State, September 1970–July 1972; thereafter, Deputy Secretary of State
  • Islam, Syed Nazrul, Acting President of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh, April–December 1971
  • Jha, Lakshmi Kant, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India until May 1970; thereafter, Indian Ambassador to the United States
  • Johnson, U. Alexis, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from February 1969
  • Jung, Nawab Ali Yavar, Indian Ambassador to the United States until March 1970
  • Karamessines, Thomas H., Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency
  • Karim, Muhammad Enayet, Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States, May–August, 1972; thereafter Foreign Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Karim, S. A., Foreign Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh until August 1972
  • Kaul, Triloki Nath, Foreign Secretary of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs from February 1969
  • Keating, Kenneth B., Ambassador to India, May 1969–July 1972
  • Kellogg, Francis L., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Refugee and Migration Affairs from January 1971; also Chairman of the Interagency Committee on Pakistani Refugee Relief
  • Kennedy, Richard T., member of the National Security Council staff, January 1970–January 1972
  • Khan, General Abdul Hamid, Chief of Staff of the Pakistan Army and Deputy Chief Martial Law Administrator
  • Khan, Abdul Monem, Governor of East Pakistan until March 1969
  • Khan, Lieutenant General Tikka, Martial Law Administrator and Governor of East Pakistan, February–September 1971; Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army from March 1972
  • Kissinger, Henry A., Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
  • Kittani, Ismat, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Inter-Agency Affairs; also Special Representative of the Secretary-General for assistance to East Pakistan
  • Klein, Herbert G., White House Director of Communications from January 1969
  • Kosygin, Aleksei N., Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
  • Laingen, L. Bruce, Deputy Chief of Mission in Afghanistan until July 1971; thereafter Country Director for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
  • Laird, Melvin R., Secretary of Defense, January 1969–January 1973
  • Lewis, Samuel W., Deputy Chief of Mission in Afghanistan
  • Lord, Winston, member of the National Security Council staff
  • Luppi, Hobart, Consul General in Karachi, Pakistan
  • MacDonald, Donald G., Assistant Administrator for Near East and South Asia, Agency for International Development
  • Malek, Frederick, Special Assistant to the President with responsibility for personnel operations
  • Malik, A.M., Special Assistant to President Yahya for Displaced Persons and Relief and Rehabilitation Operations in East Pakistan, July–September 1971; thereafter Governor of East Pakistan
  • Malik, H.R., Chairman of the East Pakistan Agriculture Development Corporation, 1971
  • Malikyar, Abdullah, Afghan Ambassador to the United States
  • Manekshaw, General Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji, Chief of Staff of the Indian Army
  • McNamara, Robert S., President, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
  • Meyer, Armin H., Special Consultant in the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, from April 1972
  • Mitchell, John, Attorney General, January 1969–February 1972
  • Moorer, Admiral Thomas H., USN, Chief of Naval Operations until July 1970; thereafter Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Naas, Charles, Political Counselor at the Embassy in Afghanistan
  • Neumann, Robert G., Ambassador to Afghanistan
  • Newberry, Daniel O., Deputy Chief of Mission in Afghanistan from October 1972
  • Nixon, Richard M., President of the United States
  • Noyes, James H., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Nutter, G. Warren, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Oehlert, Benjamin H., Jr., Ambassador to Pakistan until June 1969
  • Packard, David, Deputy Secretary of Defense from January 1969
  • Peterson, Peter G., Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs, and Executive Director of the Council for International Economic Policy, 1971–January 1972; Secretary of Commerce, January 1972–January 1973
  • Pickard, Sir Cyril, British High Commissioner in Pakistan
  • Qaiyum, Qazi Zahirul, member of the Pakistan National Assembly, Awami League representative
  • Rahman, Sheikh Mujibur, (Mujib) President of the Awami League; Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Bangladesh from January 1972
  • Ram, Jagjivan, Indian Minister of Defense from June 1970
  • Rasgotra, Maharajakrishna, Minister for Political Affairs of the Indian Embassy in the United States
  • Raza, Major General Nawabzada Agha Mohammad, Pakistani Ambassador to the United States, November 1971–April 1972
  • Rees, C. Herbert, Director of the Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau for Near East and South Asia, Agency for International Development
  • Richardson, Elliot L., Under Secretary of State until June 1970
  • Rockwell, Stuart W., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
  • Rogers, William P., Secretary of State, January 1969–September 1973
  • Rush, Kenneth, Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, July 1969–February 1972, Deputy Secretary of Defense, February 1972–January 1973
  • Samad, Abdus, Foreign Minister of Bangladesh
  • Sarabi, Abdul Wahed, Afghan Minister of Planning
  • Saunders, Harold H., member of the National Security Council staff
  • Scali, John, Special Consultant to the President, January 1971–January 1973
  • Schlesinger, James R., Assistant Director, Bureau of the Budget, 1969; Acting Deputy Director, 1969–1970; Assistant Director, Office of Management and Budget, 1970–1971; thereafter, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission
  • Schneider, David T., Country Director for India, Ceylon, Nepal, and the Maldive Islands, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, from August 1969
  • Selden, Armistead, I., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Seraj, Dr. Majid, Afghan Minister of Public Health
  • Shafiq, Mohammad Moussa, Afghan Foreign Minister, July 1971–December 1972; thereafter also Prime Minister
  • Shakespeare, Frank, Director, United States Information Agency, February 1969–February 1973
  • Shultz, George P., Secretary of Labor, January 1969–June 1970; first Director of the Office of Management and Budget, June 1970–May 1972
  • Singh, Dinesh, Minister of External Affairs of India, February 1969–June 1970
  • Singh, Kewal, Foreign Secretary of the Foreign Ministry of India from November 1972
  • Singh, Swaran, Indian Minister of Defense until June 1970; thereafter, Minister of External Affairs
  • Sisco, Joseph J., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs until February 1969; thereafter, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; also Chairman of the NSC Interdepartmental Group for the Near East and South Asia
  • Sober, Sidney, Director of the Office of Regional Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State until November 1969, thereafter Deputy Chief of Mission in Pakistan
  • Sonnenfeldt, Helmut, member of the National Security Council staff, 1969–1972
  • Sorabi, Abdul Wahid, Minister of Planning of Afghanistan
  • Spain, James W., Director of the Office of Pakistan and Afghanistan Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, January–July 1969; Chargé dʼAffaires in Pakistan, July–November 1969; thereafter Country Director for Pakistan and Afghanistan until July 1970.
  • Spengler, William F., Country Director for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, July 1970–July 1971
  • Spivack, Herbert D., Consul General in Dacca, June 1971–September 1972
  • Stans, Maurice, Secretary of Commerce, January 1969–January 1972
  • Stone, Galen L., Chargé dʼAffaires in India from August 1969
  • Sultan Khan, Mohammad, Foreign Secretary of the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan until April 1972, thereafter Ambassador to the United States
  • Timmons, William, Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, January 1969–February 1970; thereafter, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs
  • Thant, U, Secretary-General of the United Nations until December 1971
  • Van Hollen, Christopher, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, May 1969–September 1972; thereafter, Ambassador to Sri Lanka
  • Volcker, Paul A., Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs
  • Vorontsov, Yuli M., Minister of the Soviet Embassy in the United States
  • Wali, Major General Sardar Abdul, Commander of the Central Forces of Afghanistan
  • Weinberger, Caspar W., Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget, July 1970–May 1972; Director, May 1972–January 1973
  • Williams, Maurice J., Deputy Administrator, Agency for International Development; Chairman of Interdepartmental Working Group on East Pakistan Disaster Relief
  • Yaftali, Abdullah, Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan until July 1971
  • Yahya Khan, General Agha Mohammad, Chief Martial Law Administrator, President, Minister of Defense, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, March 1969–December 1971
  • Young, David, Jr., member of the National Security Council staff from January 1970
  • Yung, Ali Yavar, Indian Ambassador to the United States until May 1970
  • Yusuf, S. M., Foreign Secretary of the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan until April 1972
  • Zahir, Abdul, Afghan Prime Minister, June 1971–December 1972
  • Zahir, Mohammad, King of Afghanistan
  • Ziegler, Ronald L., Press Secretary to the President, January 1969–January 1973
  • Zumwalt, Admiral Elmo R., Chief of Naval Operations