The US Government had thought that then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi might order an attack on West Pakistan to capture Pakistan-occupied- Kashmir after India’s operation to create Bangladesh got over, recently declassified CIA documents say.
As per CIA reports and minutes of high-level meetings in Washington on Indo-Pak tensions, it was clear that the US Government was readying a strategy should India smash military power of West Pakistan.
US President Richard Nixon’s National Security Adviser Henry A Kissinger discussed various possibilities due to deteriorating Indo-Pak ties in the wake of India’s military offensive in East Pakistan.
However, some top security officials in Washington felt the possibility of India launching a strike on West Pakistan was remote.