WASHINGTON, July 1: During the 1965, China had committed its forces to “some form of action” along the Indian borders to ease pressure on Pakistan, says a secret CIA memo written in April 1968 and released this week.

The memo, signed by the chief of CIA’s special research staff, on April 4, 1968, claims that President Ayub Khan embarrassed the Chinese when he abruptly ended the war on September 18.

The report notes that the Chinese leaders, for the first time since the establishment of the Peking regime, committed the People’s Liberation Army to “some form of action within a specific time limit in support of a non-Communist quasi-ally.”Their ultimatum of Sept 16, 1965 to New Delhi demanding that structures on the Sikkim-Tibet border must be dismantled within three days was intended “to humiliate the Indians and to ease pressure on hard-hit Pakistan forces.”

—Correspondent