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GA-03604 1955-05 CIA Reading Room, CIA-RDP78-02646R000300150001-8 rel A

The Communist Party of Indonesia (CIA survey, May 1955)

CIA intelligence survey of the PKI's history, structure and front organisations, May 1955, before the September 1955 elections. Section III.E (report pp. 49-50) profiles Gerwani: founded 1950 as Gerwis, renamed Gerwani at the March 1954 congress, 25,000+ members, S.K. Trimurti general chairman and Umi Sardjono chairman

GA-02495 1964-05-15 rel A licensed

Women's TU Meet Debates 'No Struggle' Line: Secretary General's Report (FBIS, 15 May 1964)

Women's Trade Union Meeting Debates 'No Struggle' Line (FBIS, 15 May 1964)

FBIS-monitored Xinhua report (15 May 1964) on the Bucharest women workers' trade union conference: WFTU Secretary General Louis Saillant's report praising the Moscow test-ban treaty and peaceful coexistence is attacked as a 'capitulationist' line. Chi Yuan-te (China) and Sri Ambar, head of the Indonesian delegation, ar

GA-02361 1968 rel A

Indonesia 1965: The Coup That Backfired (studi CIA, 1968)

CIA study, December 1968: Indonesia 1965 - the coup that backfired

CIA research study, December 1968 (released 2023), arguing the PKI planned the 30 September Movement in every detail, based largely on interrogations. Cold War security-apparatus counter-evidence relevant to how Gerwani was framed.