A Helping Hand from Langley
How did you get my phone number?" The voice of Bernardo Hugh Tovar in Washington, DC sounded shaky. In 2001, Tempo in Jakarta had called Tovar, 80, who in 1965 headed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) office in Jakarta.
Tovar was shocked at the sensitive question directed at him. Is it true the United States embassy in Jakarta and the CIA were involved in destroying the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI)? At that time, American reporter Kathy Kadane had just published some controversial information, stating that in 1965, the US embassy in Jakarta gave the Indonesian Army a list of important PKI figures to be killed. Kadane said that she had obtained all of her data from Robert J. Martens, a political officer at the embassy in Jakarta that year.
October 6, 2015
How did you get my phone number?" The voice of Bernardo Hugh Tovar in Washington, DC sounded shaky. In 2001, Tempo in Jakarta had called Tovar, 80, who in 1965 headed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) office in Jakarta.
Tovar was shocked at the sensitive question directed at him. Is it true the United States embassy in Jakarta and the CIA were involved in destroying the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI)? At that time, American reporter Kathy Kad
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