Still Uninvestigated After 50 Years: Did the U.S. Help Incite the 1965 Indonesia Massacre?

[Judi Lynn]

Still Uninvestigated After 50 Years: Did the U.S. Help Incite the 1965 Indonesia Massacre?

The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 13, Issue. 31, No. 1, August 03, 2015
Peter Dale Scott

It is now fifty years since the so-called “G30S” or “Gestapu” (Gerakan September Tigahpuluh) event of September 30, 1965 in Indonesia, when six members of the Indonesian army general staff were brutally murdered. This event was a decisive moment in Indonesian history: it led to the overthrow of President Sukarno, his replacement by an army general, Suharto, and the subsequent massacre of a half million or more Indonesians targeted as communists.1 It is also forty years since I first wrote to suggest that the United States was implicated in this horrendous event,2 and thirty years since I wrote about it again in 1985 in the Canadian journal Pacific Affairs.3

Strikingly, there has been very little follow-up investigating these events inside the United States. A new generation of scholars, notably John Roosa and Bradley Simpson, have documented U.S. involvement in the exploitation of Gestapu to justify the subsequent mass murder, in the massacre project itself, and in the formation of the subsequent capitalist New Order.4 But there has been, I shall try to show, little or no American response to facts I presented then suggesting U.S. involvement in inciting the specific event of September 30 itself.

Consider five facts about the U.S. and Indonesia in 1965, facts that (apart from the first) have been little noted or greeted in America with silence.

Fact No. 1) Prior to Gestapu, a number of U.S. academics and policy intellectuals with connections to the CIA and RAND Corporation publicly urged their contacts in the Indonesian Army "to strike, sweep their house clean” (Guy Pauker), while “liquidating the enemy's political and guerrilla armies” (William Kintner).

Text of my article in Pacific Affairs


In a RAND Corporation book published by Princeton University Press, Pauker, a Rand Corporation analyst and consultant to the National Security Council, urged his contacts in the Indonesian military to assume "full responsibility" for their nation's leadership, "fulfill a mission," and hence "to strike, sweep their house clean."42 [From fn. 43:] William Kintner, a CIA (OPC) senior staff officer from 1950-52, and later Nixon's ambassador to Thailand, also wrote in favor of "liquidating" the Indonesian Communist Party [PKI] while working at a CIA-subsidized think-tank, the Foreign Policy Research Institute, on the University of Pennsylvania campus.

More:
http://japanfocus.org/-Peter_Dale-Scott/4351/article.html

[leveymg]

1. Same CIA coup model used in Chile - assassination of Gen Schneider

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by Tierra Y Libertad and the Track 2 psyops campaign that convinced the officer corps that the Allende Gov't was going to slaughter them in their sleep.

Tried and tested CIA regime change model.

[Mnemosyne]

2. Better question, when don't we incite and interfere in other governments? nt