U. S. SAYS CIA DIDN'T DO IT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400010027-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 26, 2000
• Sequence Number: 27
• Content Type: NSPR

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By David Wise '
Washington Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON.
ti The State Department yes-
' terday denied a charge, broad-
cast by the Indonesian rebels;
i that the U. S. Central Intelli-
,
gence Agency had plotted
with a group of generals to.
overthrow President Sukarno..
"Allegations that the CIA .
was Involved in this matter
are untrue." press officer Rob-'
ert J. McCloskey declared. He
added that the situation In
t Indonesia was "extremely,
fluid and confused."
Throughout the day, officials
tre aver -a;? i c go. ana seven rerect ni !vlcence to support
,weeks later the State Depart- its charges of CIA Involve-
ment announced that he was , ment in esterday's confused'
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here
Indicated they did not
I: know what was happening in President Sukarno
The fact that the U. S?' Last Friday, the Indonesian
through the CIA, covertly had news agency, Antara, charged
,supported the ,anti-Sukarno, that 10 "CIA" agents were
rebels in 1958, and the role arrested in northern Ctlebea,
for the first time in a book, ',smuggled into Indonesia from '
"The 'Invisible Government,i ;: the Philippines. A 'U. S..
by David Wise and Thomas Embassy spokesman said ' on
r B. Ross, published 'last , year Sept. 25 that he had "nothing
y
by Racidom, House. ~. to confirm" the Amara dis-
'i The rebel'radfoi, Jakarta
Indonesia; as reports of coups
and counter-cou s fl attempt, launched with Pres-A
owed f J
ident Kennedy's approval, to : i
to Washington, overthrow Premier Castro.
One highly placed source (.- President Sukarno has a
said t''at Washington had no.1'historical basis for his avowedd1
r'warning from U. S. inteili-.1 suspicions of the CIA. Seven,/
gence sources that a coup was years ago,, the intelligence'
I brewing in Indonesia. agency supported rebels' who
Still other officials indicated were trying to overthrow him.'i
that while there had been In 1958, Mr. Sukarno al-.f
w signs of a possible u h 1 (.ready had' begun his lcftu ard'
av
p e
a
for some time, no one here
,,knew just when It would
dome,,
turn, and the Eisenhower ad-
-ministration decided to back a,
rebel movement operating
i. U. S. relations with Indo- 1 Celebes. At the time, the CIA
nesia have deteriorated stead-;, was headed by Allen W.?
fly in,the last year., President , Dulles.
Sukarno has allied himselfi.' bombers secretly were
with Communist China and made ade available to the rebels
by the intelligence agency, al=
(has been increasingly hostile ' though the Administration
toward the U. S.
1 maintained a public policy of
volvement was made In a
strict neutrality. ? One hope
was that Gen. Abdul Haris
radio rebel-controlled Jakarta Nasution, Army leader re-
broadcast early' yesterday, garded as an anti-Commu-
ist, would come over to the
The broadcast and the "
rebel side. He didn't,.. and the
firm U. S. denial, focused at- rebellion . collapsd.
tention once again on the
CIA, which has become some-
I' t.hing of a hitvahnn hob
bli..
go
Korean War ace hired to fly
the CIA bombers, was shot
down on May 18
1958
while
,
,
l' bar of Asi d Af I on & ,mission for the rebelb.
a
n an r can lead- He was tried and sentenced to
era, including' President Su- death by the Sukarno govern-,
karno. This stems from the , ment.
fact that the CIA, while it
of the U. S. support given to
anti-Sukarno rebels in 1958,
1-the' globe for the decision-
'makers in Washington, has
also from time to time en-
k' gaged in covert political ac-
'tion, Including the overthrow
t of unfriendly governments.
telligence-gathering role; has
aroused little controversy, its
.covert operational activities
d have led to criticism 'at home
and - abroad t
election to repair relations by.
inviting the Indonesian Presi-
dent to the White House. They
,brother,', Robert Kennedy
visited Indone
i
- ---d 1%
s
a on
will tour, another effort to
demonstrate U. 'S. friendship
for Mr. Sukarno. Robert Ken-
ately asked for. the'
needy'
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