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3 itemsTopic: killings 1965–66 ✕Person: D.N. Aidit ✕Organisation: US Embassy in Jakarta ✕
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GA-02616 1965-11 rel B licensed

LBJ National Security File - Indonesia: communist parties and internal politics, Nov 1965 - May 1966

LBJ National Security File: Indonesia, Communist Parties and Internal Politics, Nov 1965-May 1966

LBJ Library National Security File, Indonesia country file (vol. VI): US Embassy Jakarta cables and withdrawal sheets, mainly December 1965 to May 1966, on the army's moves against the PKI, Sukarno's speeches, student demonstrations and Suharto's rise. Gerwani appears twice. Embtel 2077 (17 Jan 1966) reports Bogor wall

GA-02599 1965-12-07 rel C

Airgram A-373: Joint Weeka no. 46, 7 Desember 1965

Airgram A-373: Joint Weeka no. 46, 7 Dec 1965

US Embassy Joint Weeka no. 46 (airgram A-373), 7 Dec 1965: Aidit's capture and death, the fate of Politburo members, and a figure of 34,000 PKI prisoners in Java. Context on leadership elimination and detention scale.

GA-01523 1990-09-08 The Guardian rel B licensed

The black hole of Bali (The Guardian, 8 September 1990)

The Guardian (Weekend Guardian), 8 Sept 1990, p.A4, John Gittings, 'The black hole of Bali': long feature on the 1965 massacre (250,000 or more killed), how the killings were organised by the army under Suharto, the Aidit/PKI role, the US list of communists (Martens/Kadane) and US encouragement, survivors ('Tapols') an