GA-02596 1965-11-20 relevance C public
Telegram 1516 to Secretary of State, 20 November 1965
Telegram 1516 to Secretary of State, 20 Nov 1965
US Embassy telegram 1516, 20 Nov 1965, relaying Yugoslav and Australian secondhand accounts that PKI activists relied on Sukarno, claimed no foreknowledge of the 30 September Movement and expected the party to vanish for years. Context on PKI grassroots confusion.
Telegram 1516 Kedubes AS, 20 Nov 1965, meneruskan keterangan tangan kedua dari Yugoslavia dan Australia bahwa aktivis PKI bergantung pada Sukarno, mengaku tak tahu rencana G30S dan memperkirakan partai lenyap bertahun-tahun. Konteks kebingungan akar rumput PKI.
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- Date
- 1965-11-20
- Creator
- US Embassy Jakarta
- Document type
- government record (diplomatic telegram (outgoing, intelligence-style report of conversations))
- 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', posted 17 October 2017 (EBB number and exact URL to verify; landing page at nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/indonesia/2017-10-17/...). Open access. The documents come from the roughly 30,000 pages of Jakarta embassy post files (1964 to 1968) declassified by NARA in 2017 under the Indonesia declassification project (NARA declassification authority NND 67299 stamped on the page). PDF downloaded into Nath's Gerwani folder; retrieved 2026-10-13. Cloud OCR text slice plus page images rendered at 80 to 110 dpi for checking. [v2 re-check, Oct 2026: full transcription of every page against page images; see titles file v012__8.json.] Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- U.S. Embassy Jakarta. (1965, November 20). [Reports from PKI activists and Yugoslav embassy view on PKI future] [Telegram 1516 to Secretary of State; Secret]. In National Security Archive, Indonesia mass murder 1965: Previously classified U.S. embassy files [Electronic Briefing Book]. The George Washington University. (Original in NARA, RG 84, Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State, Jakarta post 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 (1965-11-20) - Telegram 1516 to Secretary of State [NSA EBB doc 14].pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.893) · 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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