IMMIGRATION OF INDIAN COMMUNISTS FROM CALCUTTA AND BOMBAY INTO INDONESIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002700180006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 1, 1947
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Indonesia/India
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SUBJECT Immigration of Indian Com. nicts from Calcutta
and Bombay into Indonesia.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF IN
REPORT NO
la R. Stanek*, engineer and Acting Consul General of Czechoslovakia In Batavia
since before World War II, turned Communist in 1946 while Olga Teechekina
was visiting Indonesia to coordinate Indonesian, Chinese, and other Communist
youth movements in Batavia. In May 1947, he bribed, with a sum estimated
at between f 29,500 and f. 5,000, K. Utermark, lot class Dutch Immigration
official, and X.J. Kroet, Immigration debarkation officer at Tandjung Friok,
to facilitate the entry into Batavia of Indian immigrants, the majority of
whom are said to have been Communists from Calcutta and Bombay.
2. This action was recommended to Stanek by Dwarkhadas Topandas Assomull,
wartime president of the. Indian Independence League (IIL) at Batavia and
chairman of the Anti-Al_lisd India League of Batavia in Flay 1947.
3. These Indian immigrants have been cooperating with the local commissariat
of the Partai Komunis Indonesia (FKI) for the purpose of consolidating the
position of the Indonesian Communists prior to carrying out "an Indonesian
uprising."
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It is reported that J. Rt,ttner* general manager of the Data Shoe Company in
Batavia, and J. Komzak*, assistant manager of the company, have been serving
Stanek as informers, supplying information of an undetermined nature..
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ommen. i reported that Ruttner and Komsak told
Mohammed Tamsil, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs in Sjarifudin's
cabinet, that they were prepared to make arrangements for Dr. Suripno
to go to Prague as "special minister" of the Republic of Indonesia,
Stanek secured a number of letters of recommendation for uripno,, eamon
which was one addressed to the central council of the World Federation of
Democratic Youth (%FDY) at Prague.
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