Caldwell,M. Ten Years Military Terror in Indonesia. 1975
Caldwell, Malcolm, ed. Ten Years' Military Terror in Indonesia.
Nottingham, England: Spokesman Books, 1975. 297 pages.
"I probably have a lot of blood on my hands, but that's not all bad.
There's a time when you have to strike hard at a decisive moment." So said
Robert J. Martens, formerly a political officer in the U.S. embassy in
Indonesia, as he described to reporter Kathy Kadane how U.S. diplomats and
CIA officers provided up to 5,000 names to Indonesian army death squads
in 1965, and checked them off as they were killed or captured. The death
toll reached a half million or so. Kadane's article was reprinted in the
San Francisco Examiner (1990-05-20) and the Washington Post (1990-05-21),
but soon the New York Times checked in with a damage control effort by
Michael Wines (1990-07-12), which proclaimed the end of the story.
Despite the NYT, some of us have not lost interest in the issue. This
book is a collection of essays on various aspects of the first ten years of
military rule in Indonesia. One contributor is Peter Dale Scott, who examines
American involvement in the coup in an essay that includes 139 end notes
(pages 209-261). Scott updated this research with new sources in the journal
Pacific Affairs (Summer 1985, pp. 239-264). His research on Indonesia also
triggered his book-length poem about terror titled "Coming to Jakarta" (New
York: New Directions Books, 1989, 160 pages). If Kadane and Scott have their
way, someday not only the CIA will know the full truth about Indonesia 1965.
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- ASIA FOUNDATION (212)
- ASIA SOCIETY (225)
- BISSELL RICHARD MERVIN JR (211)
- BLUM ROBERT I (212)
- BRACKMAN ARNOLD C (241-2)
- BREWSTER KINGMAN (212)
- BROOK T L (237, 241)
- BUNDY WILLIAM PUTNAM (216)
- CABOT THOMAS DUDLEY (216)
- CALHOUN ALEXANDER D (225)
- CENTER INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (221, 229)
- CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT (214-5)
- CLEVELAND HARLAN B (223, 236)
- CONGRESS CULTURAL FREEDOM (244)
- COUNCIL FOREIGN RELATIONS (209-10, 216-29)
- DELSON ROBERT (251)
- DOYLE LEONARD (PROF) (233)
- DRAPER WILLIAM H JR (220)
- DRUMMOND ROSCOE (211)
- EDHIE SARWO (14, 17, 132)
- ETHEL WILLIS G (244)
- FASSOULIS SATIRIS GALAHAD (SONNY) (213)
- FIFIELD RUSSELL HUNT (218-20, 229)
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- FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (220, 253)
- FORRESTAL MICHAEL VINCENT (224)
- FOX MATTHEW (213, 243)
- GETTY J PAUL (240)
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- GREEN MARSHALL (243-4)
- GRIFFIN R.ALLEN (212)
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- HARRIS MICHAEL (233)
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- HILSMAN ROGER (223-4)
- HOFFMAN PAUL GRAY (212)
- HOLLINGER WILLIAM C (234)
- HOWARD JOHN BRIGHAM (233)
- HUNT E HOWARD (211)
- HUTTON HAROLD (237)
- INDONESIA CIA IN (211-63)
- INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION FREE TRADE UNIONS (244)
- JONES HOWARD PALFREY (219, 243)
- JORDAN AMOS AZARIAH (220)
- KAHIN GEORGE MCTURNAN (218-9, 248)
- KEARNS HENRY (240)
- KELLEY RAY S (233)
- KINTNER WILLIAM ROSCOE (218, 220, 231)
- KOREA CIA IN (243-4)
- KRAFT JOSEPH (248)
- LANSDALE EDWARD GEARY (210, 215, 222)
- LEVY WALTER JAMES (224)
- LINEBARGER PAUL M.S. (218)
- LON NOL (28)
- MADDOX WILLIAM PERCY (218, 225)
- MALIK ADAM (219)
- MCCUNE SHANNON (212)
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- MCNAUGHTON JOHN T (212)
- MILLER FRANK J (233-4)
- MILLIKAN MAX FRANKLIN (221)
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- MULLEN ROBERT R (211)
- MURTOPO ALI (63, 111)
- NASUTION ABDUL HARIS (111, 215, 222)
- NATHAN ROBERT R (218)
- PALMER HOWARD (243)
- PALMER WILLIAM B (GEN) (243)
- PAPPAS THOMAS A (213)
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