The Jakarta method : Washington's anticommunist crusade and the mass murder program that shaped our world / Vincent Bevins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bevins, Vincent, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Central Intelligence Agency--History--20th century.

United States.

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

Political violence.

History.

Autonomy and independence movements.

Anti-communist movements.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

International relations.

Developing countries--Foreign relations--United States.

Developing countries.

United States--Foreign relations--Developing countries.

Anti-communist movements--Developing countries--History--20th century.

Autonomy and independence movements--History--20th century.

Political violence--Developing countries--History--20th century.

Indonesia--History--Coup d'état, 1965.

Indonesia.

Cold War.

Diplomatic relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Washington's anticommunist crusade and the mass murder program that shaped our world

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : PublicAffairs, Hatchette Book Group, [2020]

Summary:

"In the 20th century, the U.S. government's effort to contain communism resulted in several disastrous conflicts: Vietnam, Cuba, Korea. Violence in Indonesia, and then interconnected slaughters across Latin America, arguably had a bigger hand in shaping today's world, but have been widely overlooked for one important reason: the secret CIA interventions were successful. In 1965, nearly one million unarmed civilians were killed in Indonesia with active U.S. assistance. This was the end of a decade-long attempt to stop the rise of the largest communist party outside the USSR and China. The resulting dictatorship buried the truth until this day, but the massacre shook the world. Left-wing movements radicalized, afraid of suffering the same fate as the unarmed Indonesians, and the world's committed anticommunists - especially in Brazil and Chile - learned from the mass murder, creating terror campaigns named after the Indonesian capital. In this bold and comprehensive new history, building on his reporting for the Washington Post in Southeast Asia, Vincent Bevins uses recently declassified documents, archival research, and countless of hours of interviews to reconstruct this chapter in world history and reveal a hidden legacy that spans the globe. For decades, it's been portrayed that much of the developing world passed naturally, and peacefully, into the US-led capitalist world system. But those who suffered through this process have long known differently"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A new American age

Independent Indonesia

Feet to the fire, pope in the sky

An alliance for progress

To Brazil and back

The September 30th Movement

Extermination

Around the world

Jakarta is coming

Back up north

We are the champions

Where are they now? And where are we?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781541742406

1541742400

OCLC:

1117633696