Writer Mod Date & Time PARTITION: Tape 22 255MODEM 255MODEM Dec 28 12:42 TAPE 22 Side A General (retd) JACK JACOB interviewed in Delhi, 11 Dec 1996 chief of staff Eastern Command in 1971 war, and drafted Pak surrender document; born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Calcutta; served in mid-East during WW2; latterly on nat exec of BJP 15 - military campaign launched on 3rd after Pak bombing of Indian airfields; by 13th, troops on outskirts of Dhaka 36 > reads out part of surrnder doc 51 - 'I landed at Dhaka at 12 o'clock in the a'noon of 16th with a draft surrender doc in my pocket ... there was firing going on in the town ... '; Pak objections to draft document 80 - left doc with Pak generals, then 'went back and asked them if they wd accept it; they didn't answer, Nyazi had tears in his eyes, I cd u’stand what he felt, it must have been terr for any soldier to surrender, ... I asked him have you accd this doc, he didn't answer, he then pushed the doc towards me, I took that as acceptance' 92 - public surrender ceremony; onlookers ' they were most euphoric; after the doc was signed, Nyazi had tears in his eyes; the crowd there wanted to lynch him ... we had hardly any troops there, we were just entering Dhaka, and we had gt problems forming a cordon around Nyazi and escorting him to a jeep, and he was driven off' 117 - 'when i entered Dhaka, the mukti bahini were running around, there was gt euphoria, there was firing in the air ... they wanted to attack Nyazi's HQs ... but they were exuberant, in fact over exuberant they were singing ... Joi bangla, things like that' 133 - 'as time went on [welcome] wore thin ... we withdrew as quicly as poss', moving out on 23 March 148 - 'we got an intercept on morning of 14th ... saying going to be a v high level mtg ... in Dhaka at govt hosue; I then tried to find out where govt house was, we only had a guide map of Dhaka, the same guide map, fort, my counterpart in Shillong had, the air force chap, we had to decide which govt house, there were two, the old one and the new one, we decided it wd be the old one ... and an attack was planned and went in in two hours, govt house was v accurately hit, ... the gov then resigned ... that was the end of the last govt in e Pak' [was an aerial rocket attack] 168 - when war started, Indian army maps of e Pak were 50 yrs old; m bahini and E Bengal regiments provided accurate maps, but no detailed map of Dhaka; ' so we had to rely on ... a tourist guide map'