6.00 The CIA Topples a Government and the Monetary ‘M1’
6.01 The 1965 Imperial / CIA Agency Coup Over Asia
With the help of the United States government and the CIA, closely supported by the Australian and British administrations, a military coup was staged in Indonesia (See: How the CIA Toppled a Government) under General Suharto on October 1, 1965.
As a result, there was a massacre, by most estimates, up to one million Indonesia Sukarno supporters, workers, peasants, students and political activists, as well as people of ethnic Chinese origin, and tens of thousands more were detained in prisons and concentration camps, without any visible resistance.
General Suharto (left)
During this time with Sukarno gradually being placed under house arrest, and only being allowed to travel from Bogor (his Presidential Palace) to Jakarta, gradually General Suharto approached the remaining Generals who supported President Sukarno and were given an offer they could not refuse.
The daughter of Sukarno, Megawati Soekarnoputri, spoke on Indonesian television and stated that after the rebellious revolution she thought her father’s support group would stand by him, but the generals did nothing to support neither her father nor her family. This move by Suharto eliminated any opposition to Sukarno’s house arrest.
