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Financial Preparations for Gerwis Congress, March 1954 (laporan CIA)
CIA report, 6 May 1954: Financial preparations for the Gerwis congress, March 1954
CIA report, 6 May 1954: Trimurti and Dr Thung Sin Nio collecting funds to finance the Gerwis (now Gerwani) congress in Jakarta, 25-31 March 1954, including from Chinese-Indonesian donors. Evidence on congress financing and cross-community support.
Laporan CIA, 6 Mei 1954: Trimurti dan dr. Thung Sin Nio menghimpun dana untuk membiayai kongres Gerwis (kini Gerwani) di Jakarta, 25-31 Maret 1954, termasuk dari donor Tionghoa-Indonesia. Bukti pembiayaan kongres dan dukungan lintas komunitas.
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- Date
- 1954
- Creator
- CIA
- Document type
- government record (intelligence information report (one page, partly redacted))
- Language
- English; Indonesian; Chinese
- Perspective
- Intelligence/diplomatic record
- Source role
- primary
- Country
- USA
- Period
- 1950–1954
- Source archive
- archive.org · source link
- Access
- CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room (CREST), document number CIA-RDP80-00810A004100100001-4; open access; retrieved 2026-10-13. Expected URL https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp80-00810a004100100001-4 (standard CREST pattern; download URL not recorded in the file, verify). Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- Central Intelligence Agency. (1954, May 6). Financial preparations for GERWIS congress in March 1954 [Information report, Confidential/Control, U.S. Officials Only; CIA-RDP80-00810A004100100001-4; approved for release 2001/11/21]. CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room (CREST).
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- 01 Primary Sources/1.6 US, British and Dutch Government Records/CIA (1954) - Financial Preparations for GERWIS Congress in March 1954 [CIA-RDP80-00810A004100100001-4].pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.898) · 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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