GA-02577 1965-10-23 relevance C public
Letter from CINCPAC to Marshall Green, 23 Oktober 1965
Letter from CINCPAC to Marshall Green, 23 October 1965
Secret letter, 23 October 1965, from CINCPAC political adviser Norman Hannah to Ambassador Marshall Green asking for contingency thinking on US covert or material help if the Army fought the PKI. Shows early US planning for support to the anti-PKI campaign.
Surat rahasia, 23 Oktober 1965, dari penasihat politik CINCPAC Norman Hannah kepada Dubes Marshall Green yang meminta pemikiran kontingensi tentang bantuan AS, termasuk rahasia dan material, bila Angkatan Darat memerangi PKI. Menunjukkan perencanaan awal AS mendukung kampanye anti-PKI.
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- Date
- 1965-10-23
- Creator
- Norman Hannah
- Document type
- government record (personal official letter (Secret) from CINCPAC's Political Adviser to the US Ambassador)
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Intelligence/diplomatic record
- Source role
- primary
- Country
- USA
- Period
- 1965–1966
- Access
- National Security Archive, George Washington University, electronic briefing book of 39 documents released 17 October 2017 (briefing book URL as cited in the APA reference; verify exact URL and EBB number before publication). Open access PDF reproductions of declassified records of the US Embassy Jakarta (Record Group 84, Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State, NARA; file stamp POL 23-9), with an NSA cover sheet as the final PDF page. Downloaded to Nath's Gerwani folder; annotated from the PDF and its cloud OCR text, retrieval date 2026-10-13. [v2 re-check, Oct 2026: full transcription of every page against page images; see titles file v012__2.json.] Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- Hannah, N. B. (1965, October 23). [Letter to Ambassador Marshall Green on possible US assistance to the Indonesian Army against a PKI insurgency] [Letter, Secret]. Headquarters of the Commander in Chief Pacific. Record Group 84, Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State, National Archives and Records Administration. In National Security Archive (B. Simpson, Ed.), Indonesia mass murder 1965: U.S. Embassy files (Electronic Briefing Book). https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/indonesia/2017-10-17/indonesia-mass-murder-1965-us-embassy-files
- File
- 01 Primary Sources/1.6 US, British and Dutch Government Records/US Embassy Jakarta files (1965-1967) - Indonesia Mass Murder 1965, briefing book documents (National Security Archive EBB 2017)/Norman Hannah (1965-10-23) - Letter from CINCPAC to Marshall Green [NSA EBB doc 08].pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.891) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 01 Primary Sources › 1.6 US, British and Dutch Government Records › US Embassy Jakarta files (1965-1967) - Indonesia Mass Murder 1965, briefing book documents (National Security Archive EBB 2017)
- Summary basis
- condensed from full annotation
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