GA-02603 1966-03-04 relevance C public
Airgram A-673: Example of Anti-Chinese Propaganda (Angkatan Bersendjata, 1966)
US Embassy English text of an Angkatan Bersendjata article (April 1966) presenting the 30 September Movement as a coup 'engineered in Peking', with invented meetings between Aidit and Mao. Example of Army anti-China propaganda (later shown to derive from a Hong Kong satire).
Teks bahasa Inggris Kedubes AS atas artikel Angkatan Bersendjata (April 1966) yang menyajikan G30S sebagai kudeta 'dirancang di Peking', dengan pertemuan rekaan Aidit dan Mao. Contoh propaganda anti-Tiongkok Angkatan Darat (kemudian terbukti berasal dari satire Hong Kong).
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- Date
- 1966-03-04
- Creator
- US Embassy Jakarta
- Document type
- government record (English translation of an Indonesian Army newspaper article, enclosed with an Embassy airgram (unclassified enclosure))
- 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 '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 (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. The PDF ends with an NSA colophon page that is not part of the original document. NSA labels this item 'Document 30' (enclosure); the file prefix in Nath's folder is 29. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- Angkatan Bersendjata. (1966, April 25 to 26). The history of the Gestapu abortive coup, engineered in Peking [English translation of newspaper article; Enclosure 1 to Embassy Djakarta airgram, marked 'A-666'] [Declassified enclosure, Document 30]. 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
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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 (1966-03-04) - Airgram A-673, Example of Anti-Chinese Propaganda [NSA EBB doc 30].pdf
- OCR / text
- Poor (0.477) · 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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