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• Mar 11, 1966 Suharto arrests pro-Sukarno ministers in partial coup.

• June 19, 1966 James Reston in New York Times describes “Indonesian massacre” as “A Gleam of Light in Asia.”

• Mar 11, 1967 Suharto announces that Sukarno is no longer President.

• 1967 Richard Nixon reportedly tells U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia that “Indonesian experience” shows how “we should handle our relationships on a wider basis… in the world.”

• 1973 CIA agents in Chile help draft bogus documents alleging that Allende plans to behead military commanders. Small cards distributed with words “Djakarta se acerca” (“Jakarta is approaching”).

• 1981 Former CIA agent Ralph McGehee reveals CIA deception operation for Indonesia in 1965, designed to set the stage for a massacre.

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