http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/daily/newsnat-29jul2001-25.htm ABC News Sun, 29 Jul 2001 10:11 AEST CIA tries to recall 'Indonesian purge' book The United States Government is trying to recall copies of a State Department history detailing the American role in the purge of Indonesia's communists in the 1960s. The CIA has been trying to stall the release of the documents even though they have already been officially declassified. But a research institute obtained a copy when government printers mistakenly shipped the history to bookstores. The BBC reports that the book contains decidedly embarrassing details about America's role in Indonesia's deadly anti-communist purges of the 1960s. Included in the book-diplomatic cables that show the US supplied the names of thousands of communist party members to the army in Jakarta which then tracked them down and killed them. The book also reveals a State Department plan to fund a brutal anti-communist militia group. In one 1966 cable to Washington the US embassy in Jakarta reported it did not know whether the number of communists killed was closer to 100,000 or 1 million. =A9 1999 Australian Broadcasting Corporation ************************************************************************* This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
