GA-02590 1965-10-18 relevance C public
Telegram 779A to Secretary of State, 18 Oktober 1965
Telegram 779A to Secretary of State, 18 Oct 1965
US Embassy telegram 779A, 18 Oct 1965: Foreign Ministry aide Sutarto says anti-PKI action is spreading across Sumatra, Sulawesi and Central Java, targeting Subandrio. Early-aftermath political context; no Gerwani content.
Telegram 779A Kedubes AS, 18 Okt 1965: staf Kemlu Sutarto menyebut aksi anti-PKI menyebar di Sumatra, Sulawesi dan Jawa Tengah dengan sasaran Subandrio. Konteks politik awal pasca-1965; tanpa muatan Gerwani.
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- Date
- 1965-10-18
- Creator
- US Embassy Jakarta
- Document type
- government record (diplomatic telegram (outgoing, Secret) reporting an informant's conversation; preceded by a NARA withdrawal notice)
- Language
- English; Indonesian
- 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. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- U.S. Embassy Jakarta. (1965, October 18). [Telegram (control 779A) to Secretary of State, Washington: Conversation with Sutarto, special assistant to Ruslan Abdulgani, on anti-PKI action] [Telegram, Secret]. Record Group 84, Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State, National Archives and Records Administration (POL 23-9). 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)/US Embassy Jakarta (1965-10-18) - Telegram 779A to Secretary of State [NSA EBB doc 05].pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.88) · 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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