Telegrams confirm scale of U.S. complicity in 1965 genocide

Jess Melvin is Henry Hart Rice Faculty Fellow in Southeast Asian Studies and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Genocide Studies at the MacMillan Center at Yale University. She recently published an article through her home university, The University of Melbourne, about the recently released files pertaining to U.S. knowledge of the mass murder of communists in Indonesia in 1965. 

There is much outrage in the United States that a foreign state might have attempted to influence its 2016 Presidential Election. The release on 17 October of a cache of previously classified telegrams sent from the US Embassy in Jakarta provides new and damning evidence that the US is no stranger to the dark arts of covert regime change. (Continue to article)