America’s Secret Telegrams

The United States has opened classified telegrams sent by its Jakarta embassy in the 1965 period, including some containing the names of PKI leaders and a military plan to depose Sukarno.

October 23, 2017

THIRTY-NINE documents from the United States' State Department opened to the public last Tuesday were riddled with the word ¡®secret'. Most of the documents uploaded on the Internet by the non-governmental research institution, the National Security Archive, are reports by American diplomats in Jakarta on the September 30, 1965, coup attempt, which was followed by the mass murder of Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) members in the subsequent years

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