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As it was on the way to the printers, both the CIA and the United States State Department took action to block the publication of a book detailing U.S. covert action and goverment involvement in the coup in Indonesia which resulted in the loss of up to one million lives (the victims of the U.S. sponsored purge were leftists, not surprisingly). The documents have been reproduced on the George Washington University Archive site and reveal that American involvement included passing the names of leftists the Indonesian death squads (with the Ambassador at the time suggesting that these steps were required since, on their own, the Indonesia military seemed to be to clueless to figure out who these people were themselves.
In one of the more interesting quotes from the article the embassy reports back to Washington at the time that "We frankly do not know whether the real figure" of communists who have been killed "is closer to 100,000 or 1,000,000 but believe it wiser to err on the side of the lower estimates, especially when questioned by the press." The comminiques also address the possibility of public disclosure of U.S. covert action and involvement in the massacres by noting that "The chances of detection or subsequent revelation of our support in this instance are as minimal as any black bag operation can be."
According to quotes from the pdf reproductions of the documents on the George Washington University site, "The CIA, as well as action officers at the State Department, have prevented the official release of either volume, already printed and bound by the Government Printing Office. he Indonesia volume includes significant new documentation on the Indonesian Army’s campaign against the Indonesia Communist Party (PKI) in 1965-66, which brought to power the dictator Suharto.U.S. Embassy reporting on November 13, 1965 passed on information from the police that “from 50 to 100 PKI members were being killed every night in East and Central Java."
They also note that this is not the first time either the CIA or the State Department have acted to block embarrassing revelations, pointing out that "The CIA’s intervention in the State Department publication is only the latest in a series of such controversies, dating back to 1990 when the CIA censored a State volume on Iran in the early 1950s to leave out any reference to the CIA-backed coup that overthrew Mossadegh in 1953. The chair of the State Department historical advisory committee resigned in protest."
According to the State Department Historical Advisory Committee’s summary as of September 1, 1999 of the “Status of Johnson and Nixon Era interventions "the Panel decided on April 20, 1998 to acknowledge covert action in Indonesia, that the CIA completed review of the documents on August 28, 1998, and that the volume then went into page proofs, “however, publication has been delayed.”
The FWU summary exhibit also notes that the documents reveal that the U.S. was funding the efforts of the Indonesian version of the Gestapo death head squads, by noting that the documents discuss "Ambassador Green's December 2, 1965 endorsement of a 50 million rupiah covert payment to the army-inspired but civilian-staffed action group [Kap-Gestapu]... still carrying burden of current repressive efforts targeted against PKI...." (Note the PKI were the leftists targetted for wide spread slaughter during the purge of the time).
Despite the fact that the documents were declassified, certain information is still being blocked, and noting that Gestapu intelligence at the time was not up to the standards of their German counterparts of earlier decades the documents discuss how the United States Embassy made up a list of communists, removed the attribution to the U.S. embassy to cover their tracks and that this list “is apparently being used by Indonesian security authorities who seem to lack even the simplest overt information on PKI leadership at the time….” Full information is still being withheld for while the documents reveal that "On December 2, 1965, Green endorsed a 50 million rupiah covert payment to the Kap-Gestapu movement leading the repression; but the December 3 CIA response to State is withheld in full."
Links to the pdf files posted (in protest) on the GWU site on the Web follow ...
In one of the more interesting quotes from the article the embassy reports back to Washington at the time that "We frankly do not know whether the real figure" of communists who have been killed "is closer to 100,000 or 1,000,000 but believe it wiser to err on the side of the lower estimates, especially when questioned by the press." The comminiques also address the possibility of public disclosure of U.S. covert action and involvement in the massacres by noting that "The chances of detection or subsequent revelation of our support in this instance are as minimal as any black bag operation can be."
According to quotes from the pdf reproductions of the documents on the George Washington University site, "The CIA, as well as action officers at the State Department, have prevented the official release of either volume, already printed and bound by the Government Printing Office. he Indonesia volume includes significant new documentation on the Indonesian Army’s campaign against the Indonesia Communist Party (PKI) in 1965-66, which brought to power the dictator Suharto.U.S. Embassy reporting on November 13, 1965 passed on information from the police that “from 50 to 100 PKI members were being killed every night in East and Central Java."
They also note that this is not the first time either the CIA or the State Department have acted to block embarrassing revelations, pointing out that "The CIA’s intervention in the State Department publication is only the latest in a series of such controversies, dating back to 1990 when the CIA censored a State volume on Iran in the early 1950s to leave out any reference to the CIA-backed coup that overthrew Mossadegh in 1953. The chair of the State Department historical advisory committee resigned in protest."
According to the State Department Historical Advisory Committee’s summary as of September 1, 1999 of the “Status of Johnson and Nixon Era interventions "the Panel decided on April 20, 1998 to acknowledge covert action in Indonesia, that the CIA completed review of the documents on August 28, 1998, and that the volume then went into page proofs, “however, publication has been delayed.”
The FWU summary exhibit also notes that the documents reveal that the U.S. was funding the efforts of the Indonesian version of the Gestapo death head squads, by noting that the documents discuss "Ambassador Green's December 2, 1965 endorsement of a 50 million rupiah covert payment to the army-inspired but civilian-staffed action group [Kap-Gestapu]... still carrying burden of current repressive efforts targeted against PKI...." (Note the PKI were the leftists targetted for wide spread slaughter during the purge of the time).
Despite the fact that the documents were declassified, certain information is still being blocked, and noting that Gestapu intelligence at the time was not up to the standards of their German counterparts of earlier decades the documents discuss how the United States Embassy made up a list of communists, removed the attribution to the U.S. embassy to cover their tracks and that this list “is apparently being used by Indonesian security authorities who seem to lack even the simplest overt information on PKI leadership at the time….” Full information is still being withheld for while the documents reveal that "On December 2, 1965, Green endorsed a 50 million rupiah covert payment to the Kap-Gestapu movement leading the repression; but the December 3 CIA response to State is withheld in full."
Links to the pdf files posted (in protest) on the GWU site on the Web follow ...
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