Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–8, Documents on South Asia, 1973–1976

217. Interagency Intelligence Memorandum 10075–75¹ ²

Washington, December 30, 1975

Arms Shipments to India and Pakistan During the Second Half of 1975^*

KEY POINTS

• —India’s military imports during the last half of 1975 totaled about $82 million compared to a total of about $60 million for Pakistan. This raises the totals for all of 1975 to about $182 million for India and about $91 million for Pakistan.
  • —The USSR continued to be India’s major supplier of military imports, while China was Pakistan’s major supplier.
  • —The most significant Indian imports were 25 SA–3 and an unknown number of SA–6 surface-to-air missiles; Pakistan’s major import was 50 MIG–19 fighters from China.
  • —Neither country imported items which affected its nuclear weapons capability.
  • —The net impact of the military imports to India and Pakistan and India’s domestic production will be to widen still further India’s already large edge in military capabilities.

1. Source: Ford Library, NSC Institutional Files (H-Files), Box H–131, NSDM 273–290. Top Secret; SCI; Noforn; Orcon. Sent for information. The memorandum was prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Information Agency, and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Department of State. It was concurred in by the Secretary of Defense. Eleven pages of detail and tables are not printed.
2. The memorandum summarized arms sales to India and Pakistan for the second half of 1975. It noted the continuing trend of Soviet arms supply to India and charted a growing gap in military capability between India and Pakistan.
3. This memorandum was produced jointly by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Department of State.