Telegram 194 (Joint Sitrep 11), US Consulate Surabaya, 4 November 1965

=== [PDF page 1] === INCOMING TELEGRAM Foreign Service of the United States of America LIMITED OFFICIAL USE ACTION: POL FROM: SURABAYA INFO: CHRON; ACTION DJAKARTA 164, Nov. 4 Control: 191A Classification: LIMITED OFFICIAL USE PRIORITY 164 INFO DEPT 28 CINCPAC [Unreadable] CAO JOINT SITREP 11 [Unreadable] POL STRONGLY COMMUNIST. LATEST SOURCE TO [Unreadable] BLITAR AS PRIMARY AREA [Unreadable] 2. EAST JAVA COMMANDER'S INSPECTION TOUR. EAST JAVA COMMANDER BASUKI RACHMAT OCT 30-31 MADE INSPECTION TOUR MADIUN, PATJITAN, PONOROGO AND BLITAR. ACCORDING ARMY PRESS, IN MADIUN HE [Unreadable] "THAT PKI ELEMENTS HAD BEEN PLACED UNDER CONTROL", THAT [Unreadable] UNITED IN FACING SITUATION DESPITE "RUMORS TO CONTRARY" AND THAT CAVALRY IS PATROLLING CITY AND OUTLYING AREAS. IN PATJITAN, HE ALSO FOUND MILITARY SITUATION [Unreadable] AND HAD SEALED OFF AREA IN NORTH AGAINST INFILTRATION [Unreadable] FROM SOLO AND [Unreadable] AND IN [Unreadable] AGAINST [Unreadable] SEA. ALSO IN PONOROGO, PKI ELEMENTS HAD BEEN PLACED UNDER CONTROL AND LOCAL MIL AUTHORITIES INFORMED BASUKI [Unreadable] TO INDOCTRINATE PEOPLE SO THEY WILL NOT BE VULNERABLE TO PROVOCATION [Unreadable] COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARIES (PRESUMABLY PKI). 3. REPORT INDICATES THAT BLITAR WAS AREA OF GREATEST CONCERN. EMPHASIZED THAT CITY OF BLITAR SURROUNDED BY ESTATES CONTAINING CONSIDERABLE [Unreadable] STRENGTH, FURTHER SAID ARMED [Unreadable] CARRYING OUT RAIDS ON ESTATES. COMMENT: FROM NEWS REPORT APPEARS POSSIBLE SOME ARMED FORCES UNIT MADIUN MAY BE PRO-PKI AND [Unreadable] FROM CENTRAL JAVA MAY BE PENETRATING PATJITAN, HOPING EVENTUALLY [Unreadable] DECLASSIFIED Authority [Unreadable] LIMITED OFFICIAL USE Classification POST ACTION COPY UNLESS "UNCLASSIFIED" REPRODUCTION FROM THIS COPY IS NOT AUTHORIZED PPRC, Japan === [PDF page 2] === TELEGRAM Foreign Service of the United States of America LIMITED OFFICIAL USE Classification PAGE TWO - SURABAYA 164 [Unreadable] [...] IS PROOF [Unreadable] AND MADIUN ARE [Unreadable] OR BANNING OF [Unreadable] PKI [Unreadable] [...] EDITORIAL NOV 3 [Unreadable] MOUTHPIECE TO DISSOLVING PKI IN NEW FORM [Unreadable] EQUIVOCALLY [Unreadable] PKI SABOTAGE. PRESS NOV 3 REPORTED PKI SABOTAGE [Unreadable] STATED PKI NEAR BONDOWOSO HAD STARTED [Unreadable] SUGAR FACTORY. LATTER FIRE REPORTEDLY [Unreadable] ALSO ASSERTED GODOWNS OF OTHER SUGAR FACTORY [Unreadable] NOT CERTAIN THAT RESULT OF ARSON. A NOV 2 FIRE DESTROYED DISINFECTANT PLANT IN SURABAYA. NO POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS SO FAR DISCERNED. COMMENT: IN DRY SEASON MOST OF EAST JAVA RESEMBLES [Unreadable] BOX [Unreadable] LIMITED OFFICIAL USE Classification UNLESS "UNCLASSIFIED" REPRODUCTION FROM THIS COPY IS NOT AUTHORIZED POST ACTION COPY PPRC, Japan === [PDF page 3] === NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE National Security Archive, Suite 701, Gelman Library, The George Washington University, 2130 H Street, NW, Washington, D.C., 20037, Phone: 202/994-7000, Fax: 202/994-7005, nsarchiv@gwu.edu