BEWARE OF REDS BEARING ADVICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100040017-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: September 14, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

SEP 1 4 1961
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Beware of Reds
cPA#aring Advice
WASHINGTON September 13-Among those who are
advising those who have flown in from the Ent to advise,
President Kennedy on keeping the peace to one of the
world's most powerful Communists. He is, of course,-as un-
known in the U.S. as was Lumumba in the days when folks
did not know whether the latter was a man or a danee.
The influentialu Communist I sonal visa- This was denied him.
refer to is Dips Nusantara Aidit,
He is an intimate of N. S. So Sukarno, In true comrade
Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung. fashion, appointed the Party
For he is secretary-general of chief a special advisor to the
the PEI-the Communist Party Indonesian United Nations dele-
of Indonesia. gation.
Many consider the PKI the Then Dwight Eisenhower In.
largest Communist party in the vited the President of Indonesia
world outside the barbed-wire for a White House chat. S
bloc. The PKI claims I,b00,000 karno. has a Personal stat
members; symbol. He travels with larg
Mr. Aidit Is Indonesian Presi. banks of retainers and adviso
dent Sukarno's Red shadow: He arrived here with 20 sue
Where one goes, so does the And among them was the PKI'
other. The Jakarta Communist secretary ? general, M o s c o w
chief Is, In fact, an unofficial trained and Peiping ? brie!
one-man super cabinet for Mr. Aldit.
Sukarno. ?
It Is not suprising, then that Aldit Kno harm DID Cemris
this Is not the first time Mr. back home. Hey boasted In Ja
Aidit has visited the White karta that the American Pres]
House. Just about a year ago dent had consulted him. The
Aidit was In the U.S. At first he Aldit sat down and wrote a
shad attempted to enter on a per- article in language tit only ib
criticized Sukarno's and Ah is
ti ipolicies. J
It matters not. hdrt*.v,'r, that
Aidit has no post. All itii%uential
,anti-Communist, pro-Dt ccratic
parties have been bantitk'. Ex-
cept for the Communist pv#~'-]ica?
Lions, the press is conttlVled.
When an anti-Communist 90tor,
Mochtar Lubis, returned fn fl a
Journalists' conference Ira, ''~'e,J
Aviv, he was Jailed. He kt .
he Sobel. With. Ow flick of a .
switch or one pions call, Aidit
can unleash Violent revolnUon.
Only the and-Coamiianist sent!.
ments of the Indoharan Army l
vents Sukarno 110in naming(
his ~ bureaucrat to anno 'Ii i*I post
don. I y; .
the dirty walls of prison out.,
houses. Aldit blistered the U. S.
excoriated capitalism, sneered
at the White House and talked
of New York City as a jungle
filled with barbarians.
PKI, Mr secretary-general of the.
man
ruler of vast network of
Communist oa They cover the
uge tin field& and rubber plan.
tions of the 3,000-island archi.
lago.
Though the ['KI he runs a?
oath league front, a proletarian
ront,, and the w-Mon's largest
federation. This is called
NOB IS IT KNOWN het
many circles that another frig
of Sukarno's, who also br 4
I'' ,+dvice, has been linked 'v r
h
k
...a+..,tu ouurges?may.
1Wurv. I tank the ev-Prim,- l,f -
I first ran into 1`4 4 cha~1'
trail during a amvr,, v.tinn .,, t
dent of the Republic r~"/fa1].
,++D ~etunu near, ? a' -
lutionSA is Modibo Kei;s ' r
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ave
ept Jrl,~,j/hay.
eye on the swashtxu?kiin ?TM 11'IN`` t.
he had been
called "ti Unrrprntar 6 r_
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