CIA ROLE IN INDONESIA?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400240004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 25, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
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CPYRGHT
CIA Role in Indonesia
United States m.,assa or o
that any American 'agency has supported any movement
hostile toward the Indonesian Government, an embassy
spokesman says.
President Sukarno said in a speech Feb. 23 that the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) was using the banned "Body for
the Promotion of Sukarnoism" (BPS) to oppose communism
in Indonesia. He said the CIA's slogan. was "`Sukarnoism to Kill Sukarnoism and Sukarno."
The Embassy spokesman said Mr. Jones met President,'.!,
Sukarno twice in the past two days to discuss problems of'
fecting Indonesiafn-American relations, and that Indonesia
has authorized access for Americans to United States Infor-?;
ination 'Service libraries in Surabaya, Jogjakarta, and
WASHINGTON POST
AND'- TIMES HERALD
FEB 2 5 1965
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
Not the CIA
DJAKARTA - tJ.S. Am-
as,a
said he "categorically, de-
nied" a charge by President
Sukarno that the Central In-
telligence Agency supported
an Indonesian anti-Commun-
ist group called "Body for
the Promotion of Sukarno-,.
1sm," which Sukarno banned
in December. Jones said no.,: American agency had ever
backed any, group trying to
overthrow, Sukarno.
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