THE CHARADE IN INDONESIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700410014-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2004
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: October 2, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

in' Indonesia
'>; POOR COMMUNICATIONS:
r nd.conira(aictory.reports leave us-
in.the dark.-about what. really`is',
:nn?the'wav out. ot`even h'as had'
~'. rv lcomc mews; Btit. the one worsen
y
\ve'get'anyt.hing;like an accurate
:1ltn 01vn. l ilt a5 We de? two men,' /r AT.TIXTTTrr MITT^ ,___'_:,_] n
`Ihin>; than Sukarno which mighty
happen to Indonesia would be a',
fake-over by Communism wit h j
-1l6d China calling the,sllot:s.
IT MAX PEseveral da
s before
f.: One ? about direct
enuty P r r m i American. interest.
is l~ n, ~nrl
601cOlld t ;lead ought is the absui di y;
successfully led a counter,
t'-tTiend~i~~radio charge; ,
;COUP, then the Communist rnvnhi_ Q
.,,--r-----~ -
c
0 onsis en iharno lost 'the reins at least for
fl'
y has been -anti-Communist. 7f.
a
',Haris Nasution armed"that ,Americans haven't be c m
,'Abdul
forces commander h i' molested strongly hints that Su~1
w
t t '
outbursts .were triggered. by Su-,coup. That would, seem to label-,'' hai7lo in, line with his '.'go to hell; munist. RtIISecond rlmannto watch is Geil llwitli, your. aid" stance. The fact
heCn burned in recent months. Oby
,the tot) men in the "revolutionary,, ,
1 council" . formed after the first v iously those anti-American mob"
;'leans a little more to the left-. U-0- n uonais are sate in Jakarta
r Peking variety--than Sukarno;: a~ld, elsewhere, ,Indeed, they,ap_i
it.,IdL UUr Gentra1 _tel]i ~ence,,
ion.has not yet come to Indonesia. ry
This su A..ency wviii t~ ti~n~l-xan_h
suggests Sukarno is likely ' fi
i
rst uprising by the "council o
i-to carry on, since Nasution has lea}eral or
ahvays deferred to the old 1
-
Ap;proved,For;:Release 2005/01/05: CIA=R?P7$ -bdi, 9F ~Q O a 1(Jq~4
,'Sukarno' doesn't atiite makr- if). ears nl a war in Vietna -w
sary. 1'V~th iI7
is
cotn tv1 to ou
butch.' We ' can only hope that'
country io independence from t1e'rhmal of this was hart necesT
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`
tate be artment's ' Prom tt
I, boy "revelationist" who led hi
Gee L~~:ew Io tnvetvP ou , ~ne't
;VvStlz~ his cpugtrv's,independence. starting another nne In