DEMONSTRATORS SEIZE DJAKARTA U.S. FILM OFFICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600180016-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: March 17, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POST' AN
emonstrators seize
Djakarta U.S. Film Office
carom News DIsPatchas
DJAKARTA, March 16-A hey urged the government to
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1 row o em
ously estimated from 300 t
000 claimed they had seize
e American Motion Pictur
ssociation office here today
MPA represents most Amer
!can film distributors here i
the Indonesian capital. .
The official ? news agent
Antara said the takeover.wa
ordered because AMPA . wa
"a hotbed of subversion` an
imperialist aggression in . the
fihld of film and culture .
directed against the Indone
sian revolution."
William Palmer, the on
American with AMPA here
was out of the country on va
cation. Antara demanded tha
Palmer, a' longtime friend o
President Sukarno, be ex
pelled or detained "becaus
he was obviously an agent o
the CIA in Indonesia."
American films wer
banned in Indonesia last May
.The ban was lifted by th
government in September, bu
their showing was not re
sumed.
The ' demonstrators were le
by members' of the Indonesia
Film Artists Association an
a "Committee, for Boycottin
Imperialist American Mnvies.
urn the offices into a Nation-
I Movie Institue and a meet.
ng place for artists, youths- 4
nd journalists. ..
When the leaders submitted.
? takeover statement . to
oreign Minister Subandrlo,
ssociated Press reportedi he
ngrily asked, "Why' did you;
ake them over? Those build.,
ngs were,to be handed ovezr
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