GA-02349 1950 relevance C public
Persatuan Wanita Republik Indonesia, Jakarta (laporan CIA, 1950)
CIA report, 6 April 1950: Persatuan Wanita Republik Indonesia, Jakarta
CIA report, 6 April 1950, listing the Jakarta council of Perwari and labelling the group 'extreme right'. Context on Gerwis/Gerwani's main rival and sometime partner, and on the instability of US intelligence categories.
Laporan CIA, 6 April 1950, memuat daftar pengurus Perwari cabang Jakarta dan menyebutnya 'sayap kanan ekstrem'. Konteks tentang saingan sekaligus mitra Gerwis/Gerwani dan tidak stabilnya kategori intelijen AS.
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- Date
- 1950
- Creator
- CIA
- Document type
- government record (intelligence information report (declassified CIA field report, CREST))
- Language
- English; Indonesian
- Perspective
- Intelligence/diplomatic record
- Source role
- primary
- Country
- USA
- Period
- 1950–1954
- Source archive
- archive.org · source link
- Access
- CIA CREST (CIA Records Search Tool) declassified Information Reports, released under the 1978 regrading letter and later CREST releases; available open access through the CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room (cia.gov/readingroom) under the document number given in the file name; PDF from Nath's Gerwani folder, cloud text slice made by OCR; retrieval date 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- Central Intelligence Agency. (1950, April 6). Persatuan Wanita Republik Indonesia [Information report, CIA-RDP82-00457R004600390015-7]. CIA CREST, approved for release 2000.
- File
- 01 Primary Sources/1.6 US, British and Dutch Government Records/CIA (1950) - Persatuan Wanita Republik Indonesia [CIA-RDP82-00457R004600390015-7].pdf
- OCR / text
- Poor (0.732) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 01 Primary Sources › 1.6 US, British and Dutch Government Records
- Summary basis
- condensed from full annotation
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