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61. Memorandum From the Executive Secretary of the Department of State ( Eliot ) to the Presidentʼs Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Kissinger )

nless there is some impartial monitoring. On the positive side, the army appears as of now, at least, to have adequate control of most of East Bengal to ensure reasonable security to food shipments; also, we will probably not be faced, as we were in Biafra, with the problem of dealing with two separate governments or of getting food to large areas not under the more or less effective control of the central government. In addition, the GOP has made a formal request to the UN , released by Secretary General U Thant on May 26, for East Pakistan relief and has agreed to the sending of a UN represe…

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1971-05-27
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XI, South Asia Crisis, 1971
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v11/d61
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Record ID	`frus:frus1969-76v11/d61`

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61. Memorandum From the Executive Secretary of the Department of State ( Eliot ) to the Presidentʼs Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Kissinger ). Foreign Relations of the United States, 1971. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1969-76v11/d61.