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GA-02612 1964-10-23 rel B licensed

CIA, 'Sukarno and the Communists' (Office of Current Intelligence, 23 October 1964)

CIA, 'Sukarno and the Communists' (Office of Current Intelligence, 23 Oct 1964)

CIA Office of Current Intelligence report 'Sukarno and the Communists' (23 Oct 1964, ten pages), pre-coup assessment of the PKI-Sukarno relationship. Describes PKI growth to a claimed three million members and its fronts, including the Women's Front (GERWANI), 'almost two million'; also the cabinet, National Front, lan

GA-02614 1965-10 rel B licensed

LBJ National Security File: Indonesia, komunis dan politik dalam negeri, Oktober-November 1965 (Indonesia communist parties and internal politics)

LBJ National Security File: Indonesia, Communists and Internal Politics (Oct-Nov 1965)

Compilation from the LBJ National Security File (ProQuest), Oct-Nov 1965: State Department memos, CIA intelligence memoranda and Indonesia Working Group situation reports on the 30 September Movement and army counter-moves. Gerwani appears only in passing: arrests of Gerwani and Pemuda Rakyat members (6 Oct), CIA claim

GA-01385 1965-10-21 Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia rel B

Nasakom voorlopig zonder "kom": Communisten bevroren, maar nog niet uitgeschakeld in Indonesië (Nasakom for now without 'kom')

Nasakom for now without 'kom': communists frozen but not yet eliminated

Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia (21 Oct 1965), H.L. Leffelaar from Jakarta: the freezing of the PKI is an army victory over Sukarno; Nasakom 'without kom'. A poster targets Mrs Subandrio, head of the women's federation (Kowani), for not yet suspending Gerwani. Hatta criticises communist land seizures; a minister recounts Unt

GA-01386 1965-10-21 Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia rel B

Nasakom voorlopig zonder "kom": Communisten bevroren, maar nog niet uitgeschakeld; Soebandrio in het nauw (Nasakom for now without 'kom'; Subandrio increasingly cornered)

Nasakom for now without 'kom'; Subandrio increasingly cornered