Newly published cables detail the critical U.S. role in the Indonesian military’s genocidal campaign against communists and dissidents in 1965. We speak to scholar Brad Simpson, who oversaw the documents’ publication for the National Security Archive Story Transcript AARON MATÉ: It’s The Real News. I’m Aaron Maté. In 1965, the Indonesian general Suharto launched a […]
Author Archives: Brad Simpson
Brad Simpson is associate professor of history and Asian studies at the University of Connecticut. He is founder and director of the Indonesia and east Timor documentation project at the national security archive.He is the author of the book economists with guns: Authoritarian development and US-Indonesian relations, 1960 to 1968.