GA-02588 1965-12-17 relevance A public
Airgram A-398: daftar pimpinan PKI dan keberadaan pimpinan, 17 Desember 1965
Airgram A-398: List of PKI Leaders and Their Whereabouts, 17 Dec 1965
US Embassy airgram A-398, 17 Dec 1965, listing PKI leadership bodies after May 1965 and fugitive leaders' whereabouts. Places Suharti (Gerwani chair, head of the PKI women's department), Umi Sardjono, Setiati Surasto and Mudjiatun in PKI organs; no women in the whereabouts list.
Airgram A-398 Kedubes AS, 17 Des 1965, memuat daftar badan pimpinan PKI setelah Mei 1965 dan keberadaan pimpinan buron. Menempatkan Suharti (ketua Gerwani, kepala Departemen Wanita PKI), Umi Sardjono, Setiati Surasto dan Mudjiatun dalam organ PKI; tak ada perempuan dalam daftar keberadaan.
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- Date
- 1965-12-17
- Creator
- US Department of State
- Document type
- government record (declassified diplomatic airgram with two enclosures (PKI leadership list; whereabouts list), secret)
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Intelligence/diplomatic record
- Source role
- primary
- Country
- USA
- Period
- 1965–1966
- Access
- National Security Archive (George Washington University), Electronic Briefing Book 'Indonesia Mass Murder 1965: U.S. Embassy Files', published 17 October 2017 alongside the declassification of some 30,000 pages of US Embassy Jakarta files (1964 to 1968) held at NARA (RG 59 / Embassy post files; the briefing book URL and EBB number should be re-checked before citation). Open access PDF scan, downloaded from nsarchive.gwu.edu; retrieved 2026-10-13. Each PDF ends with an NSA colophon page that is not part of the original document. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- U.S. Embassy Jakarta. (1965, December 17). PKI leadership list and fate of PKI leaders (Airgram A-398, secret; signed Mary Vance Trent; with Enclosure 1, unclassified list of PKI leadership bodies, and Enclosure 2, secret reports on whereabouts of PKI Central Committee members as of December 10) [Declassified airgram, Document 23]. In National Security Archive, Indonesia mass murder 1965: U.S. Embassy files [Electronic Briefing Book; documents declassified by NARA]. National Security Archive, George Washington University. 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)/US Department of State (1965-12-17) - Airgram A-398 to US Embassy Jakarta [NSA EBB doc 23].pdf
- OCR / text
- Poor (0.459) · proof-reading: whole text (Claude, Oct 2026) · 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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