Indonesian Communist Party organization
also: PKI, communist, Communist Party, PKI party, communists, Indo-Chinese Communist Party, ICP
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Claims (9)
Sukarno outlawed
Indonesian Communist Party documented
“Sukarno had been a prominent wartime nationalist, then active in the post-war resistance, opposing the Dutch. The natural choice for president, at once pragmatic and visionary, Sukarno was no communist. Indeed, he outlawed the Indonesian Co…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 48:45
Allen Dulles carried_out_attack
Indonesian Communist Party host_asserted
“and the destruction of PKI became the wedge. Moscow and Beijing were both vying for influence over it, which was the largest communist party outside of those two groups. Gaining the support of the PKI or influencing it would have been a fea…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 2 @ 41:17
Indonesian National Armed Forces assassinated
Indonesian Communist Party book_quoted
“Before long, he was reduced to little more than a figurehead and carry out a bloodbath to eliminate once and for all the PKI with whom Sukarno had obliged to share national power for years. Here at last was a situation that could be legitim…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia @ 11:27
Indonesian National Armed Forces carried_out_attack
Indonesian Communist Party host_asserted
“This massacre was done by the Indonesian army, but it also had a crapload of some imported, but others trained on site that were Muslim jihadists as part of the force. There is no doubt.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relooking at Indonesia Coup, Ann Soetoros, Subud.. @ 18:00
CIA covered_up
Indonesian Communist Party book_quoted
“confirmed the CIA officers contributed in drawing up the death list, the CIA and Langley categorically denied any involvement in this. The massacre put on a horrific end to the well-organized PKI national organization, but it did not put to…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia @ 15:41
Sukarno appointed
Indonesian Communist Party host_asserted
“Sukarno wanted to privatize all of them. So they set up like three different companies and he basically gave them to the political parties and like that, whoever was in charge. And the one that was given to the party that we talked about la…”
▶ Operation Gladio Indonesia Part 5 @ 41:58
Allen Dulles targeted_for_regime_change
Indonesian Communist Party host_asserted
“So what you're going to find out is when we go over there to do the regime change, we're going to kill all of the people in this PKI party and take over that oil field. Because unbeknownst to them, them being assigned what they thought was …”
▶ Operation Gladio Indonesia Part 5 @ 42:58
Ben Ahmad Mudeha member_of
Indonesian Communist Party book_quoted
“horror. But Sam could just as easily have been acting for the CIA, which most people believe he was, and the generals in the same manner. He apparently was a trusted aide of a man by the name of Adick, who was the PKI leader, and could have…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia @ 19:00
Allen Dulles funded
Indonesian Communist Party host_asserted
“and the destruction of PKI became the wedge. Moscow and Beijing were both vying for influence over it, which was the largest communist party outside of those two groups. Gaining the support of the PKI or influencing it would have been a fea…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 2 @ 41:17
Mentions (43)
▶ 7:36
Indonesia was huge as far as population goes. And so they couldn't allow that visit to happen. So I want to throw that out there. So the quote from Time Magazine in 1965 in December reads this way. Armed with the wild blade knives called ha…
▶ 8:04
Travelers tell of small rivers and streams that have been literally clogged with bodies. River transportation has, at places, been seriously impeded. The quote in May, six months later, in 1966 from New York Times was, nearly 100 communists…
▶ 10:58
A man who had served both the Dutch colonists and the Japanese invaders and his colleagues charged that the large and influential PKI was behind the junior officer coups and that behind the party stood communist China. The triumphant armed …
▶ 11:27
Before long, he was reduced to little more than a figurehead and carry out a bloodbath to eliminate once and for all the PKI with whom Sukarno had obliged to share national power for years. Here at last was a situation that could be legitim…
▶ 11:57
and other individuals, including Muslims, were encouraged to join in the slaying of anyone suspected of being a PKI sympathizer. Indonesians of Chinese descent as well fell victim to these zealots. The Indonesian people were stirred up in p…
▶ 13:15
25 years later, American diplomats disclosed that they had systematically compiled comprehensive lists of quote-unquote communist operatives from the top echelon down to the village cadre and turned over as many as 5,000 names, American dip…
▶ 14:11
There's a time when you have to strike hard at a decisive moment, unquote. Another quote by the U.S. Ambassador Marshall Green. I know we had a lot more information about the PKI than the Indonesians themselves. The, let's see, Martins told…
▶ 14:43
And he gave me the impression that this information was superior to anything that we had. So their information's shit, but people are dying from it. Another quote from the State Department liaison with the CIA in 1965 was Howard Federspiel.…
▶ 15:41
confirmed the CIA officers contributed in drawing up the death list, the CIA and Langley categorically denied any involvement in this. The massacre put on a horrific end to the well-organized PKI national organization, but it did not put to…
▶ 16:12
A semi-official account of the whole affair published in Indonesia in 1968 denied the existence of a council even existing. However, a study was published by the CIA the same year confirmed that, oh my gosh, there was a council, but that it…
▶ 16:40
What was the exact nature and extent, if any, of the PKI involvement in this alleged coup? Did some members of the party know of the junior officer's plan in advance and simply lend moral support, or did they actually take an active role? T…
▶ 17:34
What was the role of any of the CIA? Was the coup attempt instigated by an agent provocateur who spread the story of the General's Council? The killing or even the abduction of the six generals probably could not have been foreseen. Three o…
▶ 18:01
These are, in fact, indications of an agent provocateur in the unfolding drama. A guy by the name of, I'm not even going to try to say this name, his last name is Ben Ahmad Mudeha, and he was known as Sam. According to later testimony of so…
▶ 18:31
pushed the idea of the hostile general counsel and for the need to counteract it. At the trials in the CIA study, the attempt is made to establish that in doing so, Sam was acting on behalf of the PKI leader. Presentation of this premise ma…
▶ 19:00
horror. But Sam could just as easily have been acting for the CIA, which most people believe he was, and the generals in the same manner. He apparently was a trusted aide of a man by the name of Adick, who was the PKI leader, and could have…
▶ 19:30
And his testimony at one of the trials in which he appeared as a defendant was aimed at establishing Adik as the sole director of the coup attempt. The CIA and its intimate involvement in Indonesia political affairs since at least the 1950s…
▶ 20:02
disinformation and plant ideas for certain actions, if not conduct them themselves in their undercover infiltration. The desire of the U.S. government to be rid of Sukarno, a leader that was non-aligned, very anti-imperialist, and got along…
▶ 21:35
Exactly what they meant by deal with him. Whatever was intended, Sukarno was now, for all practical purposes, eliminated as an international thorn in the flesh. Or even of even greater significance, the PKI, which had been the largest commu…
▶ 22:31
the United States had been cultivating for many years. JFK's former aide, Arthur Schlesinger, had written, quote, anxious to strengthen the anti-communist forces, especially the army, in order to make sure if anything happened to Soekarno, …
▶ 23:28
This observation was also reinforced in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs that wrote in a report, quote, at the time of the attempted communist coup, and I'm going to put parentheses around communist, and military countercoup of Octobe…
▶ 23:53
As a result of this experience, numerous friendships, contacts existed between Indonesian and American military, particularly between members of the two armies. In the post-coup period, when the political situation still unsettled, the U.S.…
▶ 28:11
in Paris, reporting a conversation with a Dutch intelligence officer in NATO. According to my note of that letter, the officer had remarked to the Pakistani diplomat that Indonesia was ready to fall into the Western lap like a rotten apple.…
▶ 30:34
and which had proclaimed its independence after Portugal relinquished its control. It was the beginning of a massacre that continued into the 90s. By 1989, Amnesty International estimated the Indonesian troops, with the aim of forcibly anne…
▶ 40:48
Twelve years earlier, they had worked together when Dulles was the chief of the OSS in Berlin and Kissinger was the editor of Harvard University's Confluence. In November 1952, Kissinger visited Alan Dulles in D.C. This was at the old OSS b…
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and the destruction of PKI became the wedge. Moscow and Beijing were both vying for influence over it, which was the largest communist party outside of those two groups. Gaining the support of the PKI or influencing it would have been a fea…
▶ 42:42
They both agreed to proceed and make that which would have amounted to the first time an American president had visited Indonesia. Sukarno always described the PKI as mostly nationalist farmers and peasants, which fits the description of ev…
▶ 43:10
That was the case in Nicaragua. That was the case in Chile. That was the case in, at least initially, even in Cuba. They were nationalists. They were not communists. That was certainly the case in Korea and in Vietnam. While the PKI was the…
▶ 41:58
Sukarno wanted to privatize all of them. So they set up like three different companies and he basically gave them to the political parties and like that, whoever was in charge. And the one that was given to the party that we talked about la…
▶ 42:27
It gets labeled the Communist Party. They got assigned an area and a company that basically had no oil. Unfortunately, that was a decision that Sukarno made, and he had inadvertently actually gave the Communist Party the biggest oil field i…
▶ 42:58
So what you're going to find out is when we go over there to do the regime change, we're going to kill all of the people in this PKI party and take over that oil field. Because unbeknownst to them, them being assigned what they thought was …
▶ 46:33
is when other people like this PKI party or the Japanese or whatever was around, they gave some of the Sealy sites that were unproductive and said basically that's where the oil went. When they purposely steered people away from Sealy 40,…
▶ 48:04
but of the oil as well. So they have a presence there and are interwoven into this story a lot. And I've already talked about how they tricked the PKI. And that kind of gets us up to the next major area, which is the...…
▶ 7:17
formed and created as a result of CIA-Gladio involvement, as one might imagine. And it was done specifically, we are told, to neutralize the quote-unquote Communist Party. But we've already established that the quote-unquote Communist Party…
▶ 11:42
When in fact, the PKI, which is the quote unquote communist party, was significantly smaller than the other major political parties. As a matter of fact, size-wise, it was the fourth largest political party with the top three making up the …
▶ 22:28
let's see, talking about Parker, that the Indonesian army was the only force capable of standing against controlling or neutralizing the capacity of the PKI. This is what he's telling Alan Dulles as a result of his quote unquote survey, whi…
▶ 22:58
So he sends this guy over there basically on a vacation to write down as a quote-unquote intel report exactly what he wants to have written down so he can justify the plan he already has created. Which, of course, is going to ultimately lea…
▶ 23:27
that would be honest, would tell you the PKI was never a threat to anyone in any shape or form, especially having to do with anything communistic at all. Because again, only 10% of the fourth largest political party in Indonesia could even …
▶ 17:31
was hardly worth mentioning, okay? But this is the way it really was. In Indonesia from 1965 to 1968, there was the ongoing massacre of the PKI party, which we were all told was communist, when in reality, 90% nationalist, 10% communist, th…
▶ 18:27
that the U.S. had strategic and economic interest in the Indonesian controlled by Sukarno, and those interests ended up being bloody. And of course, we know what the interests were. It was the gold and the oil. Time magazine described it th…
▶ 18:55
Armed with wide-blade knives, Muslim bands crept at night into the houses of communists, killing entire families, burying the bodies in shallow graves. The murder campaign became so brazen in parts of rural East Java that Muslim bands place…
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expressed the view that his countrymen lacked political consciousness and that they had a long way to go in organizing a popular nationalist movement. Let's see. Hold on just a second. There was another organization in 1930 that began to fo…
▶ 21:17
and then returning them home. And that was called the Indo-Chinese Communist Party, the ICP. But it was the ICP that originally suggested those 10 points that I went over. And as you can clearly see, those 10 points were not communist at al…
▶ 48:45
Sukarno had been a prominent wartime nationalist, then active in the post-war resistance, opposing the Dutch. The natural choice for president, at once pragmatic and visionary, Sukarno was no communist. Indeed, he outlawed the Indonesian Co…