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2 itemsTopic: PKI ✕Person: M.H. Lukman ✕Place: Medan ✕
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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-02565 1965 rel B licensed

Indonesia, Internal political situation: Attempted coup against Sukarno [11] (FO 371/180320, Gilchrist despatch of 8 October 1965)

FO 371/180320: Gilchrist Despatch of 8 October 1965 on the Coup and Counter-Coup

UK Foreign Office file FO 371/180320 (Oct-Nov 1965): Gilchrist's despatch no. 13 of 8 Oct 1965 on the coup and counter-coup, plus telegrams, NATO and Commonwealth reports and Chinese/Soviet/Hanoi reactions. The despatch lists GERWANI among 'chief suspects' (p. 11) and says members of PKI youth and women's groups took p