Greg Poulgrain - JFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia

Copyright 2020 by Greg Poulgrain

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TIMELINE

1859 John D. Rockefeller (twenty years old) starts commission agency in Cleveland; American Civil War demand for foodstuffs, clothing, and kerosene for the North; profits soar.

1870 January 10: John Rockefeller established Standard Oil Company with his younger brother William as vice president; secret deals cut out most refineries in Cleveland: one of the most gigantic and dangerous conspiracies ever conceived (US Congress). Rockefeller effigy hanged and burned.

1878 Standard Oil controls 95 percent of US pipelines and refineries; European markets supplied by Russian oil from Baku oil fields in Caucasus.

1882 Standard Oil (New Jersey) sets up legal base for Standard companies in other states. Rockefeller allied with business figures, like John D. Archbold, who have influential Senate connections; Office of Naval Intelligence established, before US Army equivalent and before British or German counterparts.

World War I US Secretary of State Robert Lansing (Allen Dulles uncle) sets up Secret Service in State Department.

1915 Allen Dulles in US embassy, Vienna, begins career in intelligence (USA enters WW1 on April 6, 1917); elder brother John Foster married (1912) into Rockefeller family.

1917 John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, May 29.

1919 Standard Oil New Jersey (part of Rockefeller oil empire) secretly purchases Humble Oil and Refining Company, the largest producer in Texas and next year buys into Baku oil fields in Russia; oil fields then held by Noble Brothers soon under Red Army control. (Later, Russia becomes USSR.)

192021 Allen Dulles in US embassy Constantinople (Istanbul), on behalf of Rockefeller oil, negotiates with head of Baku oil, von Mohrenschildt, father of ten-year-old George (de Mohrenschildt), who in 1938 emigrates from Belgium to USA. In 194041 George works with Allen Dulles in Humble Oil, selling oil to Vichy French. (George de Mohrenschildt in 1964 is key witness for Warren Commission in which Allen Dulles is dominant figure.)

1933 Hitlers Nazi party on the rise; Japan quits League of Nations. USA recognizes USSR. In Netherlands East Indies, new oil company formed: Standard-Vacuum (Stanvac).

1934 Standard of California (Socal) gets oil concession in Netherlands East Indies: ten million acres in Sumatra for drilling. Rockefeller since WW1 has been denied entry into Netherlands New Guinea (NNG) or West New Guinea; Indies oil mogul Henri Deterding publishes pro-Nazi memoirs.

1935 NNGPM starts oil exploration in NNG: 40 percent Royal Dutch Shell, 60 percent Stanvac and Socal. (NNGPM has Dutch name, Dutch staff, and headquarters in the Netherlands, but majority share held by Rockefeller interests.)

1936 NNGPM expedition to highest peak in the territory (16,000 ft.) Ertsberg and Grasberg discovered but not announced (only much later described as worlds largest primary deposit of gold.) Freeport, the US company still mining today, starts producing in 1972.

1941 Humble Oil conducts oil exploration in West New Guinea; 26,000 barrels per day (b/d) is largest well ever discovered in Southeast Asia, but not announced, as Japanese Imperial army about to invade and war starts a few months later. (Rediscovered in 1972 after Sukarno replaced by Suharto; this oil has no sulphur, is exceptionally pure and light, and needs no refining.)

1945 President Sukarno proclaims Indonesian independence from Dutch colonial rule; four years of armed struggle before Dutch transfer sovereignty of Indies, excluding NNG.

1958 Allen Dulles (now Director of Central Intelligence) uses CIA to start Outer Islands Rebellion (PRRI) supporting disparate Indonesian army commands in Sumatra and Sulawesi to attempt break-away from Java; Dulles actual aim is to create unified central army command in Jakarta.

1960 When CIA covert operation in PRRI is perceived as failure, Moscow offers Jakarta huge arms deal to oust Dutch colonial presence from Netherlands New Guinea (NNG).

1961 President Kennedy reappoints as DCI Allen Dulles, who already has arranged for Bay of Pigs and Dutch-Indonesian NNG sovereignty dispute to be Cold War crises awaiting JFK. DCI Dulles fails to inform Kennedy that Sino-Soviet dispute is real, not an intelligence ploy. UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold agrees to intervene in NNG, but is assassinated in the Congo.

1962 Kennedy intervenes in NNG sovereignty dispute in favor of Indonesia and proposes follow-up program of US aid (against earlier advice from Dulles).

1963 CIA gun-running in Sarawak helps to start Konfrontasi between Indonesia and Malaysia. US Congress disapproves of Indonesian aggression against (British) Malaysia and stops US aid program for Indonesia; JFK decides to visit Jakarta (set for early 1964) to stop Konfrontasi in order to restart US aid package. JFK unaware that his support for Sukarno will end Dulles plan for regime change and jeopardize Rockefeller brothers plans (which involve Allen Dulles and Henry Kissinger) to drive a wedge between Moscow and Beijing. Kennedy assassinated.

1965 Major General Suharto (Strategic Command, Kostrad) on CIA list as top anti-communist general, yet maintains close friendship with those in September 30 Movement, an army group led by Kamaruzaman Sjam, an undercover agent for the Indonesian Communist Party and Suhartos friend who can access Kostrad headquarters. Six top Indonesian army generals killed. Suharto alleges September 30 Movement is PKI front and blames it for attempted coup against Sukarno and killing the generals. Mass killing starts.

19661967 Suharto replaces Sukarno.

LIST OF NAMES

Abdulgani, Roeslanborn in 1914; youth activist, 1945; Indonesian foreign minister, 1956; prominent in Suharto era and still advised President Megawati Sukarnoputri in 2002; after his death in 2005, documents from Dutch intelligence described him as an asset.

Adhayatmanlinked to CIA; adjutant to Adam Malik.

Aditorop, Jusufthe deputy party secretary of the PKI.

Aidit, Dipa Nusantarayouth activist; led the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) for more than a decade, up to November 1965.

Allison, JohnUS ambassador in Jakarta (1957early 1958).