GA-02578 1965-08-05 relevance C public
Letter to Edwin L. Fox (Sjafruddin Prawiranegara), 5 Agustus 1965
Letter to Edwin L. Fox from Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, 5 August 1965
US Embassy copy of a 5 August 1965 letter from Sjafruddin Prawiranegara to Edwin Fox defending the US in Vietnam and warning of Chinese and Indonesian communist aggression. Pre-coup anti-communist voice; no Gerwani content.
Salinan Kedubes AS atas surat 5 Agustus 1965 dari Sjafruddin Prawiranegara kepada Edwin Fox yang membela AS di Vietnam dan memperingatkan agresi komunis Tiongkok dan Indonesia. Suara antikomunis sebelum kudeta; tanpa muatan Gerwani.
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- Date
- 1965-08-05
- Creator
- Sjafruddin Prawiranegara
- Document type
- government record (private letter (typed embassy copy, enclosure to airgram))
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Other
- Source role
- primary
- Country
- Indonesia
- Period
- 1960–1965
- Access
- National Security Archive, Electronic Briefing Book No. 607 (published 17 October 2017), https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/indonesia/2017-10-17/indonesia-mass-murder-1965-us-embassy-files; open access; retrieved 2026-10-13. Original: NARA, RG 84, Entry P 339, Jakarta Embassy Files, Box 3, Folder 22 POL Political Aff. and Rel. 1965 general (Document 2). Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- Prawiranegara, S. (1965, August 5). [Letter to Edwin L. Fox] (Enclosure 1 to Airgram A-125, American Embassy Djakarta to Department of State; Secret) (RG 84, Entry P 339, Jakarta Embassy Files, Box 3, Folder 22, POL Political Affairs and Relations 1965 general). National Archives and Records Administration. In B. Simpson (Ed.), U.S. Embassy tracked Indonesia mass murder 1965 (Electronic Briefing Book No. 607). National Security Archive. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/indonesia/2017-10-17/indonesia-mass-murder-1965-us-embassy-files (Document 2).
- 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)/Sjafruddin Prawiranegara (1965-08-05) - Letter to Edwin L. Fox, enclosure to Airgram A-125 [NSA EBB doc 02].pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.926) · 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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