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Assignment of Gerwis Commissars, West Java (laporan CIA, 1953)
CIA report, 6 July 1953: Assignment of Gerwis commissars, West Java
CIA report, 6 July 1953, on Gerwis commissars assigned to West Java areas (Djatinegara, Bogor, Sukabumi, Cianjur, Bandung), with background on Kartinah and Kartowijono and their ties to Perwari, peace and WIDF activity. Names regional Gerwis leaders.
Laporan CIA, 6 Juli 1953, tentang komisaris Gerwis yang ditugaskan di wilayah Jawa Barat (Jatinegara, Bogor, Sukabumi, Cianjur, Bandung), dengan latar Kartinah dan Kartowijono serta kaitannya dengan Perwari, gerakan perdamaian dan WIDF. Menyebut pimpinan Gerwis daerah.
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- Date
- 1953
- 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. (1953, July 6). Assignment of GERWIS commissars, West Java [Information report, CIA-RDP80-00810A001600470001-2]. CIA CREST, approved for release 2003.
- File
- 01 Primary Sources/1.6 US, British and Dutch Government Records/CIA (1953) - Assignment of GERWIS Commissars, West Java [CIA-RDP80-00810A001600470001-2].pdf
- OCR / text
- Fair (0.868) · proof-reading: whole text (Claude, Oct 2026) · 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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