Daily News Monitoring Service
After killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15, 1975 Khandoker Mushtaque Ahmed government was worried about possible Indian military intervention in Bangladesh. David Corn, US Consul General posted in Calcutta was instructed by US secretary of state Dr Henry Kissinger to keep watch on General Jacob, the chief of the Indian Eastern Command. US Ambassador in Dhaka, Davis Booster, said US Calcutta-based Consul General David Corn was adequately briefed in this regard... (The New Nation).
The just-released Bangladesh minutes of the US Foreign Ministry revealed that in a meeting in Calcutta on August 16, 1975, Gen. Jacob asked US Consul Corn what more he had on the Bangladesh situation? Corn said, coup in Bangladesh was successful. Gen. Jacob retorted, he had information that there were some disturbances outside Dhaka. Jacob said, Bangladesh had least chance of attaining stability, adding there was still a possibility of counter-coup. He expressed his concern over declaration of Bangladesh as Islamic republic. When Gen Jacob was asked whether there was exodus of minority Hindus from Bangladesh, he parried the question and said they were watching the situation. David Corn said that he again met Jacob on August 24 at Fort William, the headquarters of Eastern Command..
Jacob told Corn that the then President of Bangladesh, Khandoker Mushtaque, was known in India as pro-Pakistani and pro-Chinese.