BBC: Mr Yudhoyono
said he hoped
for warmer ties with 'an old relative'
04/09/05
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FORD,
KISSINGER AND THE INDONESIAN INVASION, 1975-76
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Ford and Kissinger Gave Green Light to
Indonesia's Invasion of East Timor, 1975:
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NSA Archives: East Timor Revisited
December 6, 2001
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Related
Press Release
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Related
documents
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The New Evidence
The Indonesian invasion of East Timor in December 1975 set the stage for the long, bloody, and disastrous occupation
of the territory that ended only after an international peacekeeping force was introduced in 1999. President Bill
Clinton cut off military aid to Indonesia in September 1999—reversing a longstanding policy of military cooperation—but
questions persist about U.S. responsibility for the 1975 invasion; in particular, the degree to which Washington
actually condoned or supported the bloody military offensive. Most recently, journalist Christopher Hitchens raised
questions about the role of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in giving a green light to the invasion that
has left perhaps 200,000 dead in the years since. Two newly declassified documents from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential
Library, released to the National Security Archive, shed light on the Ford administration’s relationship with President
Suharto of Indonesia during 1975. Of special importance is the record of Ford’s and Kissinger’s meeting with Suharto
in early December 1975. The document shows that Suharto began the invasion knowing that he had the full approval
of the White House. Both of these documents had been released in heavily excised form some years ago, but with
Suharto now out of power, and following the collapse of Indonesian control over East Timor, the situation has changed
enough that both documents have been released in their entirety.
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The Indonesia/East Timor Documentation
Project
Director: Brad Simpson
Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs
Princeton University
bsimpson@princeton.edu
609/751-8206
Since 2002, the National Security Archive's Indonesia / East Timor documentation project has sought to identify
and seek release of thousands of secret U.S. documents concerning U.S. policy toward Indonesia and East Timor from
1965-1999. It aims to assist East Timorese and Indonesian official and nongovernmental efforts to document and
seek accountability for more than three decades of human rights abuses committed during the rule of Indonesian
President Suharto (1965-1998). The project is directed by Brad Simpson, an Assistant Professor of U.S. history
and foreign relations at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, with assistance from staff and researchers
at the National
Security Archive, including William Burr, Barbara Elias, Michael Evans, Tamara Feinstein, Kyle Hammond and Hikaru
Tajima.
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EAST TIMOR
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