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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000200200009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 23, 2014
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 10, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/04/23 CIA-RDP73-00475R000200200009-5
MAR 1 0 1966
Disclaimer �
I am deeply concerned to of
,dispel any misleading impres-
� sion which may have arisen
as a result of Mr. Joseph
. Kraft's column (March 5), en-
titled "Blood Bath in Indone-
sia." Mi. Kraft made use of a.
tentative attempt by a few� of
� the American Indonesia spe-
cialists at Cornell to recon- �
struct the confusing events'
.surrounding the coup of Oct.
;1 and 2, 1965. This attempt was
'strictly confined to the events
;of those days, and neither dis-.
�:cussed nor hazarded judgment,
.on any subsequent events. .� .
Since Mr. Kra(t's column;
went considerably beyond a
'discussion of the events of: '
!early October to speculate on�.
more recent developments,
' wish to make it absolutely:
� clear that both those who de-,
.,veloped the hypothesis con...
.cerning the origins of the coup..
:as well as other Indonesia spe-,
cialists at Cornell, disassociate� .
themselves completely from.
Mr. Kraft's evaluation and:
� judgment of Indonesia's more;
recent past.
� Furthermore, Mr. Kraft's
'observations on the prospects.
for Indonesia's future are also�
'entirely his own. They are not.
and have not been the inbject '
.of study being .undertaken at:
; Cornell.
' GEOPGE McT. KAMM
Director, Mrierraliarrif
Indonesia Proket.
Ithaca, DT.Y.
ca-s! �
, Prof Kahin is quite right:.
and I am sorry if I gave any ;
!other impression.
JOSEPH KRAFT.
1. ..Washing
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