United States Relations With Indonesia; United States Concern With Political Developments in Indonesia; United States Interest in the Question of Western New Guinea (West Irian)1

1. For previous documentation on this subject, see Foreign Relations, 1952–1954, vol. XII, Part 2, pp. 245 ff.


199. Telegram From the Embassy in Indonesia to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 756D.00/12–2656. Confidential; Priority.


201. Telegram From the Embassy in Indonesia to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 756D.00/1–957. Secret.


202. Telegram From the Embassy in Indonesia to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 123–Cumming, Hugh S., Jr. Secret; Priority; Limit Distribution.


203. Telegram From the Embassy in Indonesia to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 756D.00/1–1857. Confidential.


204. Telegram From the Embassy in Indonesia to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 756D.00/1–2457. Secret; Limited Distribution.


205. Telegram From the Embassy in Indonesia to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 756D.56/1–2557. Secret; Limited Distribution.


206. Telegram From the Embassy in Indonesia to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 756D.56/1–2957. Secret; Limited Distribution.


207. Telegram From the Embassy in Indonesia to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 756D.11/2–2057. Secret.


208. Telegram From the Embassy in Indonesia to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 756D.00/2–2357. Confidential; Priority. Repeated priority to Singapore and Manila.


209. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Indonesia

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 756D.5–MSP/2–657. Confidential. Drafted and approved in FE and cleared with SPA.


210. Telegram From the Embassy in Indonesia to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 756D.00/2–2557. Secret; Priority.


211. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Indonesia

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 756D.00/2–2657. Confidential. Drafted and approved in FE.


212. Telegram From the Embassy in Indonesia to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 756D.00/2–2857. Secret. Repeated to Manila.


215. Telegram From the Embassy in Indonesia to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 756D.00/3–257. Secret; Priority.


216. Report by the Intelligence Advisory Committee

Source: Department of State, PPS Files: Lot 67 D 548, Indonesia. Secret. No drafting information is on the source text. Sent to Goodpaster, the Secretaries of State and Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs with a covering memorandum from Allen Dulles, Chairman of the Committee, that noted that the Committee discussed the situation in Indonesia on March 5 and considered it important enough to be brought to the recipients’ attention. Copies were also sent to Secretary Dulles and other senior officers of the Department of State with a memorandum of March 6 from W. Park Armstrong. The source text is the copy sent to Bowie.


218. Telegram From the Embassy in Indonesia to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 756D.56/3–857. Secret; Niact. Allison assumed charge of the Embassy on March 7.


219. Memorandum of a Conversation, U.S. Delegation Office, Parliament House, Canberra, March 13, 1957, 9:30 a.m.

Source: Department of State, Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199. Secret. Prepared by the Delegation to the Third Meeting of the SEATO Council. The source text is headed “Extract of Memorandum of Conversation”; the document from which it was extracted was USDel/MC/9, dated March 19, which recorded the entire conversation. (Ibid., Conference Files: Lot 62 D 181, CF 851)


220. Telegram From the Embassy in Indonesia to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 756D.00/3–1457. Confidential


221. Memorandum of Discussion at the 316th Meeting of the National Security Council, Washington, March 14, 1957

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman Files, NSC Records. Top Secret; Eyes Only. Drafted on March 15 by Gleason.


222. Letter From the Ambassador in Indonesia (Allison) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (Robertson)

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 756D.00/4–857. Top Secret; Official–Informal.


223. Telegram From the Embassy in Indonesia to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 756D.00/4–1157. Confidential. Repeated to The Hague and Canberra.


224. Telegram From the Embassy in Indonesia to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 756D.00/4–1557. Confidential.


225. Telegram From the Embassy in Indonesia to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 756D.5–MSP/4–2757. Confidential; Priority.


227. Telegram From the Embassy in Indonesia to the Department of State

Source: Department of Stale, Central Files, 756D.00/5–957. Confidential.


228. Telegram From the Embassy in Indonesia to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 756D.00/5–1557. Confidential; Priority.