INDIAN ARMS SITUATIONS AND WESTERN ASSISTANCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00429A001100010015-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 27, 2006
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: January 15, 1963
• Content Type: MEMO

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OCI-0471/63
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
15 January 1963
CURRENT INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT: Indian Arms Situation and Western Assistance
1. We have no hard information on the extent of
India's materiel losses during the two bouts of fighting
in the fall of 1962. The Indians themselves probably
have not yet worked up an accurate tally of their equip-
ment losses.
2. We believe, however, that Indian losses--
primarily in mortars and small arms--had been made up
by the first of the year and that a net gain has been
registered since then. Certainly there has been a
qualitative gain.
3. We do not have good information on the status
of negotiations between.India and the other countries,
but receipt of all materiel offered by these countries
would, add measurably to these gains, both quantitatively
and qualitatively.
4. A tabulation of Western military assistance
delivered and offered to India i e Octo1er 1962 is
appended.
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