Subversion as Foreign Policy: The Secret Eisenhower and Dulles Debacle in Indonesia

"Chapter and Verse on the Dulles's Bloody Cold War Games in Indonesia" according to Judith M. Heimann. Written by two of the most knowledgeable academics of the period they are writing about -- the 1950s and '60s -- which were the height of the Cold War era and the late years of the Sukarno presidency in Indonesia, this book is surprisingly lively and easy to read, despite being as carefully buttressed by fact and documentary sources as the most professorial of publications. I think what makes the book so readable is that the writers, a husband and wife team, not only know the whole sto. Tiffany Tsung said Five Stars. The book came in good condition!

-- Journal of Asian Studies"Subversion as Foreign Policy is a remarkable book. policy towards Indonesia, both clandestine and official". The intervention occurred on such a massive scale that it is difficult to believe it has been kept almost totally secret from the American public for nearly 40 years. -- San Francisco Chronicle"An exemplary study of an ignominious chapter of the Cold War in Southeast Asia". Based on access to secret documents and interviews with many of the participants, Subversion as Foreign Policy is an extraordinary account of civil war in Indonesia provoked by President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and resulting in the killing of thousands of Indonesians and the destruction of much of the country's a

From Publishers Weekly In 1957, President Eisenhower, his secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, and the CIA--unbeknownst to Congress or to the American public--launched a massive covert military operation in Indonesia. Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. The authors maintain that Indonesia's communist party was essentially a homegrown nationalist movement and that the Eisenhower administration's fears were misguided. Historian Audrey Kahin, editor of the journal Indonesia, and Cornell professor of international studies George Kahin have written a disturbing, scholarly expose of a major covert operat

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