<nettime> [rewriting history] Washington Post: Page8

[Jonathan Prince <jonathan@killyourtv.com>]

Just another sleepy story in a Saturday edition of the Washington Post on page
eight....

  - jp

Washington Post: Page 8

''U.S. officials are trying to recall an official history of U.S.  dealings
with Indonesia that documents some American responsibility for the killing of
thousands of Indonesian communists in the mid-1960s, including a cable
recommending payments to army-backed death squads.

[....]

The volume on Indonesia contains documents indicating that 35 years ago, U.S.
officials supplied the names of thousands of members of the Indonesian
Communist Party, the PKI, to the army in Jakarta, which was tracking them down
and killing them. Estimates of the numbers assassinated range from 100,000 to a
million.''

- Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62289-2001Jul27.html

Read the documents for yourself at George Washington University's 
National Security Archive
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB52/

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