CIA ROLE IN INDONESIA?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000101890001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 25, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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FEB 2 5 165
CIA Role in Indonesia?.,!
By Reuters.
Jakarta, Indonesia
United States Ambassador Howard P. Jones has denied
that any American agency has supported any movement'
hostile toward the Indonesian ? Government, an embassy.,
spokesThan says.
President Sukarno said in a speech Feb. 23 that the Central.
Intelligence Agency (CIA) was using the banned "Body for,',
the Promotion of Sukarnoism" (BPS) to oppose communism:
in Indonesia. He said the CIA's slogan. was ..'Sukarnoism to,
, Kill Sukarnoism and Sukarno."
The Embassy spokesman said 114r. Jones met President
Sukarno twice in the past two days to. discuss problems
fecting Indonesidn-American relations, and that Indonesia
:has authorized' access for Americans to United States Infor-
ination 'Service libraries 'in ?, Surabaya,' :Jogjakarta and., ? ,..3,
Jakarta.' ' ?
. WASHINGTON POST
.AN TIMES HERALD .
FEB 2 5 1965
Not the CIA
DJAKARTA ? U.S. Am-
. :baisador Howard P. Jones
:said he "categorically de-
nied" a charge by President
Sukarno that the Central In-
telligence Agency supported
San Indonesian anti-Commun.
1st group, called "Body for ,?
the Promotion of Sukarno-
inn," which Sukarno banned
in December. Jones said no.
American agency had ever.,;?,
; backed any group trying ,,to:fi/
' overthrow Sukarno. ? '.1:(4
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