PUT AN END TO HELPING SUKARNO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100500013-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: February 24, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN

TOE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
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{ SUKARNO ^ Indonesia.
Two years ago, r spon,ure3 an amend
(Mr. BROOMFIELD (at the request of . ment to cut off further E,m,yrican aid to;
Mrs. REID of Illinois) was granted per- Indonesia with the provis) that the Pres-
mission to extend his remarks at this Ident could continue such aid if he con-'::I..
point in the RECORD and to include ex- sidered such a&sistance in the publto':
traneous matter.) interest.
Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, in .
The letter of this aid cutoff has been;
view of Congress' actions some time ago): carried out, but certainly not the spirit.',v
In urging the cutting off of further aid to/. We are still training some Indonesian,,,
'Indonesia, and the constant stream of military here in the United States. We~.i
insults hurled in the direction of the still are supplying funds for such pro-
United States by this demi-Hitler, Su- grams as malaria eradication. We still;;,
karno, it Is surprising to note that this maintain a Peace Corps contingent in :'
administration has not yet learned Its :Indonesia with the noble purpose of j
lesson. teaching physical education to students'i
I understand that Sukarno has sus- who evidently do not have enough to eat..
needed all newspapers except th
s
f -..
o
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v.,,,av ILUL"LIM All'
the Communist Party and Government Indonesia which Sukarno will undoubt-:''
mouthpieces because be claims that all
edly close at a lat dth i bti
erae wentest- .private newspapers are run by the CIA. suits his purpose of whipping up more'.'
Sukarno's government has taken over anti
A
i
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mer
can sentiment
.
three U.S. Information Service libraries ,. We have tried the carr
t l
o
ong enough
?
? in Indonesia so far and Government- and it has been an expensive carrot. it!
inspired riots against the United States. has not worked. So let us withdraw the,'
continue unabated.. .. carrot and remember there is still the'
partment and tine administration do not. Even the former "go slow" advocates,''
sitake.,Sukarno's hint land stop,;,the cones in our dealings with Sukarno, who some
howa could not believe that any man;
seemed, have had enough.
I
ll
ca
the attention of myll tr
coeaguesoan editorial which appeared in the Feb-
ruary 17, 1965, edition of the Detroit';
Npwc entitled ""n,it. tr..1.a..._ ..1.
which follows:
It Is time the United States quit turning''
the other check to President Sukarno, of In-1.
donesia in view of that two-bit dictator's i
latest insult to this country.
On direct orde
f
rs
rom Sukarno himself
,
, the Indonesian Government took over a ~,
third US I
f
n
ormation Service lib i
..raryn
Jakarta after 17,000 Indonesians took part in',
a government-sponsored demonstration
against the United States. The purpose was'
to protest the U.S. airstrikes against North
Vietnam, whose Communist government is'
backed by Sukarno.
In recent months, Sukarno had displayed
his displeasure with United States actions'
and policies by closing two other USIS It
braries. Now only two are left open In all
"of Indonesia, a country of 100 million people.:'
USIS libraries, highly regarded in most`
.-countries, often are given credit for winnin
g;
more friends and influencing more people on
'behalf of the United States than any other'
U.S. program. They often have been targets'
of unsympathetic governments, probably be-
cause they stock books, magazines, and
newspapers providing objective accounts of
world events not normally available In coun-
tries like Indonesia.
Sukarno always has bean a pain in the
neck, but he has become even more so In
recent years. With his domestic economy in
'a mesa, he has engaged in more and more
foreign adventures, After having bulldozed
the United Nations Into giving him West
New Guinea, he now wants territory in
fare, against the Federation of Malaysia 'to
Communist regimes- in Pieping and Hanoi,'
s?
Congress has been threatening to bar all
aid to Indonesia unless Sukarno halts his
troublemaking. The least the United
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