CIA chief Hugh Tovar: "The CIA did not do it"

BERNARDO Hugh Tovar was in the midst of the blood bath in Jakarta on 30 September 1965. He was the bureau chief of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Jakarta at that time. Although, up until this day, he states that he "did not know anything about the communist attempt to overthrow the Indonesian government".

If indeed this statement has any truth to it, then just what was this CIA agent doing in Jakarta at that time? And what is Tovar's

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