Bissell, Wisner’s successor as deputy director for plans.34 Instead, the CIA hired pornographic actors, including a very rough Sukarno look-alike, and produced an adult film in a bizarre attempt to destroy his reputation. The Agency went so far as to identify the “asset” who would kill him, according to Richard M. On the softer side, a CIA front called the Congress for Cultural Freedom, which funded literary magazines and fine arts around the world, published and distributed books in Indonesia, such as George Orwell’s Animal Farm and the famous anticommunist collection The God That Failed.33 And the CIA discussed simply murdering Sukarno. But behind the scenes, the CIA boys dreamed up wild schemes. This strategic shift would begin soon, and would prove very fruitful. The country of Indonesia couldn’t be simply broken into pieces to slow down the advance of global socialism, so this was a way that the US could work within existing conditions. He emphasized to Washington that the United States should support the Indonesian military as a more effective, long-term anticommunist strategy. “Jones, along with the US military attaché in Indonesia, took Subandrio’s advice.
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