For more on this history see, Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968 by Bradley Simpson, Director, Indonesia-East Timor Documentation Project at the National Security Archive The "paper of record" also lied to it's readers by asserting that Washington wasnt involved in the coup or the massacres: The U.S. embassy's attitude [towards these killings] was clearly expressed when, almost a month after the mass killings had begun, Francis Galbraith, the deputy chief of mission (later to succeed Marshall Green as ambassador), reporting to Washington on his conversation with a high-ranking Indonesian army officer, said that he had "made clear" to him that: The White House also authorized the CIA station in Bangkok to provide small arms to General Sukendro in order to:
