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Thank you for visiting the Bangladesh Archives. These archives are a collection of material on the 1971 war of Independence in Bangladesh. Material includes Newspaper and magazine articles. Documents from the US government and other sources, videos and audio matieral. Any suggestions and contributions of material is always welcome.

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Library of Congress - Kissinger Papers

  • Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between Secretary of the Treasury Connally and the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), Washington, December 5, 1971
  • Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between President Nixon and His Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) - 3
  • Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between President Nixon and His Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) -2
  • Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between President Nixon and His Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger)
  • Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between Secretary of State Rogers and the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger)

    • New York Times

  • Peking's Acting Foreign Minister Denounces India and Implies That She Is Encouraged by Soviet Union — Reuters
  • Fatal Flaw — James Reston
  • Editorial: Now to the U.N.
  • Awkward Time for China — Tillman Durdin
  • Hope Is Mingled With Cynicism as the Security Council, Once More, Meets to Cope With a Flare-Up — Eric Pace
  • India MIG's in 8 Raids Against Dacca Airport — James P. Sterba
  • Yahya Vows to Crush Foe — Associated Press
  • Quick Full Surrender of East Pakistan Is Set as Objective of India's Invaders — Sydney H. Schanberg
  • U.S. SAYS INDIANS BEAR MAIN BLAME — Benjamin Welles
  • INDIAN ATTACK ON — Charles Mohr
  • India and Pakistan Jets Clash — Malcolm W. Browne
  • Russian Vote in U.N. Kills Troop-Pullback Proposal — Henry Tanner

    • Nixon Presidential Materials

  • Letter From Indian Prime Minister Gandhi to President Nixon — Indira Gandhi
  • Memorandum of Conversation between Vorontsov and Kissinger — Henry Kissinger

    • Observer (London)

  • EDITORIAL: The mad, sad war

    • Washington Star/Evening Star

  • Hatred Unites Bangla Desh — Henry S. Bradsher