GA-02605 1966-06-29 relevance C public
Airgram A-808: Army Military Police Corps Assuming Role as Thought Police, 29 Juni 1966
Airgram A-808: Army Military Police Corps Assuming Role as Thought Police, 29 Jun 1966
US Embassy airgram A-808, 29 June 1966: the Army Military Police Corps (CPM) screens ministry officials for 'subversive opinions' about 30 September under Supersemar authority, using a loyalty questionnaire. Shows the bureaucratic purge and screening of 'involvement'.
Airgram A-808 Kedubes AS, 29 Juni 1966: Corps Polisi Militer (CPM) Angkatan Darat menyaring pejabat kementerian dari 'pandangan subversif' terkait G30S berdasar Supersemar, memakai kuesioner kesetiaan. Menunjukkan pembersihan birokrasi dan penyaringan 'keterlibatan'.
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- Date
- 1966-06-29
- Creator
- US Embassy Jakarta
- Document type
- government record (declassified diplomatic airgram (political section), confidential)
- 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 (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 32'; the NSA file name calls it 'telegram 808', although it is Airgram A-808. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- U.S. Embassy Jakarta. (1966, June 29). Army Military Police Corps assuming role as thought police? (Airgram A-808, confidential; signed Green) [Declassified airgram, Document 32]. 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 (1966-06-29) - Airgram A-808, Army Military Police Corps Assuming Role as Thought Police [NSA EBB doc 32].pdf
- OCR / text
- Poor (0.404) · 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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