US PLAN FOR ARMY REGIME IN INDIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200450003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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ain" her; and, so, the noto-
ioas Central Intelligence Agency
US has been working on
number of plans and projects
_or the "containment" of any re-
newed Indian aggression, parti-
eulariy against its ally Pakistan.
T T. latest of these projects,
vviticl_ clearly bears the imprint
o= a,e CIA, has just come into
correspondent's possession.
i~-. w our is a famous (or noto-
rious;) Afghanistan-based CIA
sic rc::er, Louis Dupree; and
.ee report entitled "FIRST RE-
'f'i,ECTIONS ON THE SECOND
N-'i ASII YIIR WAR" was released
by the American Universities
Field Staff (an organisation
hoavi'y subsidised ';y Pentagon
and it:; South
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CPYRGHT
need not worry about that; but sal put forward on July its, 19ue,
what should cause New Delhi by retired General K, M.
sonic worry is the solution very Cariappa, the first Army Chief-
cleverly suggested (or shall we of-Staff in India after indepen-
say, auto-suggested) by the CIA dence, which called for a ;uspen-
researcher. His argument bears sion of democracy so that a
reproduction at some length : strong central regime, could cotu-
bat internal communism and
INDIA BRANDED AS the spread of internal divlsiv~
COLONIAL POWER regionalism in India. Cencral
Cariappa called for a ruling
"Is there hope for a solution? body of not more than 13 per-
It seems to me that the answer sons to replace the present, -:s
must be a blunt 'no,' unless India he calls it, "unsatisfactory par-
permits a plebiscite in Kashmir. liamontary systean.
India has, on its own terms, in
tegrated Indian-occupied Kash-
mir into the Indian Union, but
Pakistan will never rest until a
plebiscite is held, and in Kash-
mir itself, infiltration from Azad
Kashmir will probably increase
even if the current cease-fire
ends open warfare. Slowly, but
inevitably, Kashmiris will join
the infiltrators, and terroristic
guerrilla warfare will result.
Will India, emulating the mis-
takes of some Western colonial
powers, hold on to Kashmir to
the bitter end, while the scene
becomes bloodier and bloodier?
Probably, unless the United
States and the Soviet Union
bring joint pressure in the Secu-
rity Council to force a plebiscite,
through political pressure and
PLEA FOR MLITARY
REGIME
Now the naked dagger of the
CIA reveals itself :
REVIVING THE GHOST
OF PLEBISCITE
"If the military should liein
greater voice in the India.:
power structure, it has be?_,}
.argued, they would open a new
channel of communication o
their counterparts in Pakist.,u
The military commanders on
both sides, are products of . lie
same system having attended the
same schools and having foultit
side by side in World War ' ii.
They mutually recognize thr'
need for a joint defence of the
Indian sub-continent and mihht
move toward a . rapproc?hem -nt
as an essential to that defence,"
It is evident that the Ajiglo-
Americans till today hold on to,
the view that the only solution
to the Kashmir problem is a'
plebiscite forced upon India by
-the Security Council, or, in the
alternative, military rule which
would gang up with the A.ydb'
"A few observers have ,eeu- junta in t?:c son ice of the>
ta.tect v: the possii-i.:c' South
don co
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