‘James Bond’s’ Actions in Indonesia

ONE day in the late 1950s, senior officials at the US State Department decided that an intelligence operation was necessary to provide military support for rebels in Sumatra (PRRI) and Sulawesi (Permesta) in their fight against the Indonesian central government in Jakarta. Their main political consideration was the likely development of the Communist Party and Bung Karno’s (Soekarno) attitude, which no longer