[PEPIS] 50 yrs on: Gehlen, BND, and the Indonesian Coup of 1965

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Gehlen, BND, and the Indonesian Coup of 1965

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Reinhard Gehlen: Nazi head of post­war German intelligence
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=171090#171090

COMMENT: In our recent dis­cus­sions with 
<http://spitfirelist.com/news/gehlen-bnd-and-the-1965-indonesian-coup-of-1965/http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-844-interview-7-with-peter-levenda-about-the-hitler-legacy/>Peter 
Lev­enda, we dis­cussed the pro­found Nazi 
pres­ence in Indone­sia, before, dur­ing and 
after World War II. The bloody 
<http://spitfirelist.com/news/gehlen-bnd-and-the-1965-indonesian-coup-of-1965/http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-845-interview-8-with-peter-levenda-about-the-hitler-legacy/>1965 
coup against Sukarno is known to have been 
largely engi­neered by the CIA. By some accounts, 
the death toll reached 1,000, 000, with the 
vic­tims includ­ing many lib­er­als, 
jour­nal­ists, artists and writ­ers and oth­ers 
viewed with dis­taste by the army.

A recent issue of Ger­man For­eign Pol­icy (which 
feeds along the bot­tom of the front page of the 
web­site) dis­closes that the BND–the Ger­man 
for­eign intel­li­gence ser­vice and the final 
incar­na­tion of the Gehlen spy outfit–played a 
major role in the coup, as well.

The appar­ent BND point man for the Fed­eral 
Republic’s role in the coup was Rudolf 
Oebsger-Roder, like so many Gehlen org offi­cers, a vet­eran of the SS.

The slaugh­ter in Indone­sia proved alto­gether 
pleas­ing to Gehlen. ” . . . Reflect­ing back, 
BND founder Gehlen was prais­ing these crimes 
almost effu­sively. “The sig­nif­i­cance of the 
Indone­sian army’s suc­cess, which ... pur­sued 
the elim­i­na­tion of the entire Com­mu­nist 
Party with all con­se­quences and sever­ity, 
can­not ­ in my opin­ion ­ be appraised highly 
enough,” Gehlen wrote in his 1971 “Memoirs.” . . .”

<http://spitfirelist.com/news/gehlen-bnd-and-the-1965-indonesian-coup-of-1965/http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/fulltext/58886>“Bonn 
and the Putsch;” 
german-foreign-policy.com<http://spitfirelist.com/news/gehlen-bnd-and-the-1965-indonesian-coup-of-1965/http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/fulltext/58886>; 
10/15/2015.

Germany’s Fed­eral Intel­li­gence Ser­vice (BND) 
has been heav­ily involved in the 1965 
mur­der­ous putsch in Indone­sia ­ the guest 
nation of this year’s Frank­furt Book Fair. This 
was con­firmed in secret doc­u­ments from the 
Bun­destag, the Ger­man Par­lia­ment. Accord­ing 
to BND Pres­i­dent at the time, Ger­hard Wessel’s 
man­u­script for a talk he deliv­ered to a 
ses­sion of the Bundestag’s “Con­fi­den­tial 
Com­mit­tee” in June 1968, the BND did more than 
merely sup­port the Indone­sian mil­i­tary in 
their blood-soaked “liq­ui­da­tion of the CPI” 
(Com­mu­nist Party of Indone­sia) ­ result­ing in 
the mur­der of hun­dreds of thou­sands, 
pos­si­bly even mil­lions ­ with advi­sors, 
equip­ment and finances. Suharto, who 
sub­se­quently took power, had even attrib­uted a 
“large part ... of the suc­cess” of the 
oper­a­tion to the BND. Up to now, mainly the 
US-American assis­tance to the putsch has been 
known. The putsch, and the more than 30 year-long 
dic­ta­tor­ship that fol­lowed ­ which also had 
been reli­ably pro­moted by West Ger­many ­ are 
impor­tant themes being pre­sented by Indone­sian 
writ­ers at this year’s Frank­furt Book Fair. To 
this day, the Ger­man gov­ern­ment has refused to 
allow an inves­ti­ga­tion of the BND’s sup­port 
for the putsch and the Indone­sian military’s exces­sive brutality.

Hun­dreds of Thou­sands Dead

The Indone­sian putsch, bring­ing Maj. Gen. Haji 
Mohamed Suharto to power in Jakarta, began in 
Octo­ber 1965 as a reac­tion to an attempted coup 
d’état, killing sev­eral offi­cers on Sep­tem­ber 
30. Suharto’s dic­ta­to­r­ial reign lasted until 
1998. The attempted coup was falsely attrib­uted 
to the Com­mu­nist Party of Indone­sia (CPI). 
Sub­se­quently, the mil­i­tary launched 
exces­sively bru­tal oper­a­tions against all 
gen­uine and sus­pected mem­bers and 
sym­pa­thiz­ers of the com­mu­nist party. 
Hun­dreds of thou­sands, pos­si­bly even 
mil­lions, were mur­dered; mil­lions were 
impris­oned. The exact num­ber is still unknown. 
The crimes com­mit­ted at the time by the 
mil­i­tary have never really been brought to light.

50 to 100 Vic­tims Each Night

One of the things never brought to light is what 
sup­port west­ern pow­ers had given to the 
Suharto putsch. US com­plic­ity, hav­ing had the 
best rela­tions to the Indone­sian armed forces, 
has, to some extent, already been exposed. 
Accord­ing to experts, for exam­ple, by 1965, 
around 4,000 Indone­sian offi­cers had been 
trained in US mil­i­tary instal­la­tions as well 
as high-ranking offi­cers hav­ing been trained in 
counter-insurgency on the basis of US field 
man­u­als at Indonesia’s elite mil­i­tary 
institutes.[1] Decem­ber 2, 1965, the US 
ambas­sador gave his con­sent to pro­vid­ing 
finan­cial sup­port to the “Kap-Gestapu” 
move­ment, a move­ment ­ as he put it ­ “inspired 
by the army, even though com­prised of civil­ian 
action groups,” which “shoul­dered the task of 
the ongo­ing repres­sive mea­sures against 
Indonesia’s Com­mu­nist Party.“[2] The 
ambas­sador must have known what this would mean. 
Novem­ber 13, his employ­ees had passed on 
infor­ma­tion from the Indone­sian police 
indi­cat­ing, “between 50 and 100 mem­bers of the 
CPI in East­ern and Cen­tral Java were being 
killed each night.” April 15, the embassy had 
admit­ted, “it did not know if the actual 
num­ber” of mur­dered CPI activists “was not 
closer to 100,000 or 1,000,000.” In spite of the 
mass mur­der, the US ambas­sador in Jakarta 
reported back to Wash­ing­ton (August 10, 1966) 
that the author­i­ties in Jakarta had been 
pro­vided a list of the lead­ing CPI members.[3]

“Reli­able Friend of Germany”

Agen­cies of the West Ger­man gov­ern­ment had 
also been involved in the putsch. The BND had 
sup­ported “Indonesia’s mil­i­tary intel­li­gence 
service’s 1965 defeat of a left-wing putsch in 
Jakarta, with sub­ma­chine guns, short­wave 
radios and money (with a total value of 300,000 
DM),” reported “Der Spiegel” in March 1971.[4] 
Twelve weeks later, the mag­a­zine added that “a 
com­mando of BND men” had “trained mil­i­tary 
intel­li­gence ser­vice oper­a­tives in 
Indone­sia” and “relieved their CIA col­leagues, 
who were under the heavy pres­sure of 
anti-American propaganda.“[5] By “sup­ply­ing 
Soviet rifles and Finnish ammu­ni­tion, the BND 
instruc­tors” were even actu­ally inter­ven­ing 
in that “civil war.” If one can believe the BND’s 
founder, Rein­hard Gehlen, Bonn, at the time, had 
the best con­tacts to lead­ing mil­i­tary 
offi­cers. In his “Mem­oirs,” pub­lished in 1971, 
Gehlen wrote, “two of Germany’s reli­able 
friends” were among the Indone­sian offi­cers, 
mur­dered Sep­tem­ber 30, includ­ing “the 
long­time and highly revered mil­i­tary attaché 
in Bonn, Brig. Gen. Pand­jai­tan.” Dur­ing the 
putsch, the BND was “in the for­tu­nate posi­tion 
of being able to pro­vide the West Ger­man 
gov­ern­ment with timely and detailed reports ­ 
from excel­lent sources ­ ... on the progress of 
those days, which had been so cru­cial for Indonesia.“[6]

An Excel­lent Resident

Other indi­ca­tions have emerged from the 
research pub­lished by the expert of 
intel­li­gence ser­vices, Erich Schmidt-Eenboom 
and the polit­i­cal sci­en­tist, Matthias Ritzi. 
Their find­ings con­firmed that there was close 
coor­di­na­tion between the BND and CIA. In April 
1961, BND head­quar­ters in Pul­lach had informed 
the US Cen­tral Intel­li­gence Agency that it had 
“an excel­lent Chief of Sta­tion” in Jakarta, 
writes Schmidt-Eenboom. The CIA thought the BND 
was refer­ring to Rudolf Oebsger-Röder, a for­mer 
colonel of the SS work­ing in the Reich Secu­rity 
Cen­tral Office (Reichssicher­heit­shaup­tamt) in 
Nazi Ger­many, who joined West Germany’s 
Orga­ni­za­tion Gehlen in 1948 and was later on 
post in Indone­sia, as a cor­re­spon­dent for the 
Süd­deutsche Zeitung and the Neue Zürcher 
Zeitung.[7] The BND had main­tained Oebsger-Röder 
on its staff until the mid-‘60s. In mid-January 
1964, a high-ranking CIA rep­re­sen­ta­tive paid 
Gehlen a visit and asked him how the West 
Ger­mans were han­dling the devel­op­ments in 
Indone­sia, explain Schmidt-Eenboom and Ritzi. 
Gehlen told him that he is keep­ing Bonn 
up-to-date, but does not yet know how the chan­cellery intends to proceed.

“A Large Part BND”

The man­u­script for a talk BND Pres­i­dent 
Ger­hard Wes­sel pre­sented June 21 1968 to the 
Bundestag’s Con­fi­den­tial Com­mit­tee pro­vides 
more details. In the form of notes, Wes­sel gave 
“details of BND activ­i­ties” in sup­port of its 
Indone­sian part­ner ser­vice, explained 
Schmidt-Eenboom and Ritzi. Explic­itly the 
man­u­script explains that “the close ties 
already in place to the Indone­sian strate­gic ND 
(intel­li­gence ser­vice) by Octo­ber 1965, had 
facil­i­tated sup­port (advi­sors, equip­ment, 
money) to Indonesia’s ND and its spe­cial 
mil­i­tary organs dur­ing the elim­i­na­tion of 
the CPI (and Sukarno’s dis­em­pow­er­ment ­ 
con­trol and sup­port of demonstrations).“[8] The 
“CPI’s elim­i­na­tion” included the 
assas­si­na­tion of hun­dreds of thou­sands of 
gen­uine and sus­pected mem­bers and 
sym­pa­thiz­ers of the Indone­sian CP. Accord­ing 
to the man­u­script, BND Pres­i­dent Wes­sel 
con­tin­ued his speech to the Con­fi­den­tial 
Com­mit­tee, “in the opin­ion of Indone­sian 
politi­cians and mil­i­tary offi­cers ((Suharto, 
Nasu­tion, Sul­tan) a large part thanks to the BND.”

Praise from Pullach

Reflect­ing back, BND founder Gehlen was 
prais­ing these crimes almost effu­sively. “The 
sig­nif­i­cance of the Indone­sian army’s 
suc­cess, which ... pur­sued the elim­i­na­tion 
of the entire Com­mu­nist Party with all 
con­se­quences and sever­ity, can­not ­ in my 
opin­ion ­ be appraised highly enough,” Gehlen wrote in his 1971 “Memoirs.“[9]

Berlin’s Pri­or­i­ties

The Ger­man gov­ern­ment is still refus­ing to 
shed light on Germany’s par­tic­i­pa­tion in 
these crimes. In a par­lia­men­tary 
inter­pel­la­tion, the gov­ern­ment was asked if 
it has knowl­edge of “for­eign gov­ern­ments, 
intel­li­gence ser­vices or other 
orga­ni­za­tions’ direct or indi­rect sup­port of 
the mas­sacres.” In Mai 2014, it responded, 
“after a thor­ough assess­ment, the gov­ern­ment 
con­cludes that it can­not give an open answer.” 
It is “imper­a­tive” to keep the “requested 
infor­ma­tion” secret. The “pro­tec­tion of 
sources” is a “prin­ci­ple of pri­mary 
impor­tance to the work of intel­li­gence 
services.“[10] For the Ger­man gov­ern­ment, the 
Indone­sian civil society’s need to have 
infor­ma­tion on for­eign sup­port for the 
immense mass mur­der is of less impor­tance than its “pro­tec­tion of sources.”

[1] Rainer Wern­ing: Putsch nach “Pütschchen”. junge Welt 01.10.2015.
[2], [3] Rainer Wern­ing: Der Archipel Suharto. 
In: Kon­flikte auf Dauer? Osnabrücker Jahrbuch 
Frieden und Wis­senschaft, her­aus­gegeben vom 
Ober­bürg­er­meis­ter der Stadt Osnabrück und dem 
Präsi­den­ten der Uni­ver­sität Osnabrück. Osnabrück 2008, S. 183–199.
[4] Her­mann Zolling, Heinz Höhne: Pul­lach intern. Der Spiegel 11/1971.
[5] Her­mann Zolling, Heinz Höhne: Pul­lach intern. Der Spiegel 23/1971.
[6] Rein­hard Gehlen: Der Dienst. Erin­nerun­gen 
1942–1971. Mainz/Wiesbaden 1971.
[7], [8] Matthias Ritzi, Erich Schmidt-Eenboom: 
Im Schat­ten des Drit­ten Reiches. Der BND und 
sein Agent Richard Christ­mann. Berlin 2011. See 
<http://spitfirelist.com/news/gehlen-bnd-and-the-1965-indonesian-coup-of-1965/http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/de/fulltext/58180>Review: 
Im Schat­ten des Drit­ten Reiches.
[9] Rein­hard Gehlen: Der Dienst. Erin­nerun­gen 
1942–1971. Mainz/Wiesbaden 1971.
[10] Antwort der Bun­desregierung auf die Kleine 
Anfrage der Abge­ord­neten Andrej Hunko, Jan van 
Aken, Sevim Da de­len, weit­erer Abge­ord­neter 
und der Frak­tion DIE LINKE. Deutscher Bun­destag 
Druck­sache 18/1554, 27.05.2014.


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