WASHINGTON, July 22 —Senator Edward M. Kennedy, chairman of the judiciary sub-committee on refugees, publicly implied today that the United States was planning to send police teams to East Pakistan.

Mr. Kennedy, who is a Democrat from Massachusetts, put the question to John N. Irwin 2d, Under Secretary of State, who was testifying on the refugee problem in East Pakistan, India and other areas.

Mr. Irwin and officials with him appeared surprised. C. Herbert Rees, director of South Asian operations for the Agency for International Development, conceded that there were plans for the return to East Pakistan of Robert H. Jackson, a police expert who was withdrawn from Dacca following the civil disturbances of March 25.

Mr. Jackson, who has been employed by the agency as police specialist since 1964, served previously in South Vietnam and in Brazil before his recent assignment to Dacca.

However, Mr. Rees denied that there were plans to send police teams to East Pakistan or to start public‐safety programs there.

Congressional sources insisted, nonetheless, that they had evidence that plans were being drawn up to have United States teams help the Pakistani Army suppress Bengali resistance in East Pakistan.

Mr. Kennedy's purpose in posing the question and bringing the matter into the public record, they said, was to “nip the scheme in the bud.”

Mr. Kennedy also disclosed the contents of cablegrams to the State Department from the United States mission in Pakistan. One sent July 6 by the consulate general in Dacca, said in summary:

“Specter of famine hangs over EP (East Pakistan] and prospects for averting wide spread hunger, suffering and perhaps starvation are not good.”

Charles W. Bray 3d, State Department spokesman, criticized Senator Kennedy for having made public the State Department cablegrams.

“The Senator should not expect a constructive dialogue on the real human problems of East Pakistan when he abuses our confidential communications,” Mr. Bray said.

In other testimony, Francis L. Kellogg, special assistant to the Secretary of State on refugee and migration affairs, said the average flow of refugees into India was believed to have dropped from 50,000 to 21,000 daily.

He added that the United States had authorized $70‐million to assist refugees in India. Global relief to date totals $128‐million, he said.

Both Mr. Irwin and Mr. Kellogg conceded that the United States was pressing President Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan of Pakistan to show a greater sense of urgency in handling the refugee problem.