GA-02597 1965-11-30 relevance B public
Airgram A-353: Joint Weeka no. 45, 30 November 1965
Airgram A-353: Joint Weeka no. 45, 30 Nov 1965
US Embassy Joint Weeka no. 45 (airgram A-353), 30 Nov 1965: Nasution says repression of the PKI has reached 'mass executions' in several provinces; Army-Sukarno contest. Note: Gerwani not specifically named in the excerpt; high-level context.
Joint Weeka no. 45 Kedubes AS (airgram A-353), 30 Nov 1965: Nasution menyebut penindasan PKI sudah mencapai 'eksekusi massal' di beberapa provinsi; tarik-ulur Angkatan Darat-Sukarno. Gerwani tak disebut khusus; konteks tingkat tinggi.
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- Date
- 1965-11-30
- Creator
- US Embassy Jakarta
- Document type
- government record (airgram (joint weekly summary, 'Joint Weeka'))
- 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. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- U.S. Embassy Jakarta. (1965, November 30). Joint Weeka no. 45 [Airgram A-353 to Secretary of State, covering 15 to 24 November 1965; 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).
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- 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 (1965-11-30) - Airgram A-353, Joint Weeka No. 45 [NSA EBB doc 16].pdf
- OCR / text
- Fair (0.861) · 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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