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Library of Congress - Kissinger Papers

  • Transcript of Telephone Conversation Among the Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan (Bhutto), the Pakistani Ambassador (Raza), and the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), December 11, 1971, 7:28 p.m.
  • Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) and Deputy Prime Minister Bhutto
  • Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) and the Minister of the Soviet Embassy (Vorontsov)
  • Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between President Nixon and His Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger)
  • Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between President Nixon and His Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger)

    • New York Times

  • INDIANS CROSS WIDE RIVER AND DRIVE TOWARD DACCA — Henry Kamm
  • Kitchen Diplomacy — Anthony Lewis
  • Reports Deny Deaths In Orphanage Bombing
  • Indians Closing In on Dacca
  • U.S. Indirectly Calls on India To Obey U.N. Truce Bid Now — Benjamin Welles
  • Pakistan's Bhutto Here — Eric Pace
  • Indians Surprised at the Light Resistance — Fox Butterfield
  • Mrs. Gandhi Says Goal Is Freeing of the East — United Press International
  • Dacca at War: Mixture Of Calm and Confusion — James P. Sterba
  • India Is Holding Air, Land and Sea Control of Eastern Region
  • Bengalis Pressing Their Cause in Corridors at United Nations — Henry Tanner

    • New Yorker

  • Letter From West Bengal — Ved Mehta

    • Nixon Presidential Materials

  • Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to President Nixon — Henry Kissinger
  • Backchannel Message From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to the Ambassador to Pakistan (Farland)

    • Pravda

  • THE WAY OUT OF THE CRISIS IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT — Yuri Zhukov

    • Reuters

  • VIDEO: EAST PAKISTAN: INHABITANTS GREET INDIAN SOLDIERS AS LIBERATORS AS THEY ENTER JESSORE IN PURSUIT OF PAKISTAN ARMY — Reuters

    • U.S. National Archives

  • Information Memorandum From the Director of the Planning and Coordination Staff (Cargo) to Secretary of State Rogers, Washington, December 11, 1971 — William I. Cargo
  • Telegram 5592 From the Consulate General in Dacca to the Department of State, December 11, 1971, 1125Z