A List Behind the Bloodbath
The month of September always brings us back to the tragedy of the murder of the generals and the mass killing of PKI members in 1965-66. TEMPO traces back the “dark era”: meeting of former agents of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the staff at the Embassy of the United States who were assigned to Jakarta around 1965. In the CIA document, which was opened to the public and later withdrawn, they were said to have played a role in the bloody incident. Did the CIA truly compile a “target list” of PKI members to be exterminated? Here are their answers.
October 2, 2001
The two-story wooden house is simple, not large, nor luxurious. It stands in a beautiful area in Bethesda, Maryland, approximately a half an hour's ride from central Washington. An unpretentious blue Ford is parked by the pavement in front of the house.
"Come on in," says the owner. The elderly man has been waiting for TEMPO. As with so many people of his age, his face is full of wrinkles; his thinning hair is white as snow; his voice sounds
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