Thread of stuff on the Indonesian coup of 1965...
Peter Dale Scott https://mobile.twitter.com/TimothyS/status/588697231538180097
The controversial 'Cornell Paper' co-authored by Benedict Anderson https://mobile.twitter.com/elgranjuego/status/649786977051525120
https://mobile.twitter.com/bostonbrakes/status/1089118960216403968
Sally Denton on Bechtel in Indonesia
Sally Denton on Bechtel in Indonesia
Sally Denton on Bechtel in Indonesia
US support for 1958 coup attempt in West Sumatra, from 'The Central Intelligance Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance'
US support for 1958 coup attempt in West Sumatra, from 'The Central Intelligance Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance'
US support for 1958 coup attempt in West Sumatra, from 'The Central Intelligance Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance'
US support for 1958 coup attempt in West Sumatra, from 'The Central Intelligance Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance'
US support for 1958 coup attempt in West Sumatra, from 'The Central Intelligance Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance'
more on Bechtel's pipeline in Sumatra
(Donald E. Wolf, 'Big Dams and Other Dreams: The Six Companies Story', p. 194)
State Dept cable from June 1977, whistleblower reporting water contamination at the Arun gas facility in Sumatra. Bechtel, Aceh declaration of independence
https://archive.org/details/StateDeptcable1977-148044?q=%22thomas+duclos%22+AND+%22bechtel%22
2001, the International Labor Rights Fund brought a human rights abuse claim against ExxonMobil's security forces, on behalf of villagers from Aceh
Lawsuit Says Exxon Aided Rights Abuses https://nyti.ms/2E3GJcm 
Lawsuit Says Exxon Aided Rights Abuses

International Labor Rights Fund sues Exxon Mobil in US District Court, accusing company of complicity in human rights abuses committed by state security forces that protect its large natural gas...

https://nyti.ms/2E3GJcm
Separatists shot and killed an American Bechtel employee at the Arun site in 1977.
New Castle News, 03 Dec 1977, Sat, Page 23
Acehnese independence leader Hasan di Tiro's memoir. His business career, meeting Saudi King Feisel. Return to Aceh from the US, setting up base in Panton Weng, move to the Tiro region, importance of the historic anticolonial Battle of Bandar Acheh
Acehnese independence leader Hasan di Tiro's memoir. His business career, meeting Saudi King Feisel. Return to Aceh from the US, setting up base in Panton Weng, move to the Tiro region, importance of the historic anticolonial Battle of Bandar Acheh
Acehnese independence leader Hasan di Tiro's memoir. His business career, meeting Saudi King Feisel. Return to Aceh from the US, setting up base in Panton Weng, move to the Tiro region, importance of the historic anticolonial Battle of Bandar Acheh
Acehnese independence leader Hasan di Tiro's memoir. His business career, meeting Saudi King Feisel. Return to Aceh from the US, setting up base in Panton Weng, move to the Tiro region, importance of the historic anticolonial Battle of Bandar Acheh
Acehnese independence leader Hasan di Tiro's memoir. His business career, meeting Saudi King Feisel. Return to Aceh from the US, setting up base in Panton Weng, move to the Tiro region, importance of the historic anticolonial Battle of Bandar Acheh
Decision to put pressure on foreign oil companies, their account of shooting the American engineer. Horrible anecdote about capturing a baby "monkey" (unclear what type) from its mother
Decision to put pressure on foreign oil companies, their account of shooting the American engineer. Horrible anecdote about capturing a baby "monkey" (unclear what type) from its mother
Decision to put pressure on foreign oil companies, their account of shooting the American engineer. Horrible anecdote about capturing a baby "monkey" (unclear what type) from its mother
Decision to put pressure on foreign oil companies, their account of shooting the American engineer. Horrible anecdote about capturing a baby "monkey" (unclear what type) from its mother
Decision to put pressure on foreign oil companies, their account of shooting the American engineer. Horrible anecdote about capturing a baby "monkey" (unclear what type) from its mother
follow up
notes from 'All is Clouded...'
1967 Foreign Investment Law, Bruce Rappaport, oil tanker contracts, Pertamina, Lt. Gen. Sutowo, Inter Maritime Bank, General Maritime Enterprise
The CIA's account of the killing of the Bechtel employees in Aceh (p.6)
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79-01209A000900050001-5.pdf
1980 article about Indonesia's oil boom: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/12/business/indonesian-oil-fields-boom-with-promise.html
INDONESIAN OIL FIELDS BOOM WITH PROMISE

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/12/business/indonesian-oil-fields-boom-with-promise.html
stats about the LNG terminal in Arun, Aceh
http://abarrelfull.wikidot.com/arun-lng-terminal
1980 minerals yearbook report on Sumatra and Borneo extraction contracts:
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/EcoNatRes/EcoNatRes-idx?type=turn&entity=EcoNatRes.MinYB1980v3.p0492&id=EcoNatRes.MinYB1980v3&isize=text
Lisa Pease on 'Indonesia, Kennedy and Freeport Sulphur' (PROBE, 1996):
https://kennedysandking.com/images/pdf/PeaseFreeport2.pdf
McCone (formerly of Bechtel) claiming he had only the vaguest familiarity with the fact Standard Oil had interests in Sumatra, despite the fact it was Bechtel who'd installed the pipelines a few years before (CIA file from 1962, released through FOIA: https://archive.org/details/CIA-RDP64B00346R000400050001-6/page/n67?q=bechtel+%26+sumatra )
interesting to note these weird arrangements with Norwegian tankers were used by both McCone and Bruce Rappaport
Based on his answers to Senators in the above doc, John McCone replaced Allen Dulles as the Director of CIA after the Bay of Pigs, (so oversaw all of the CIA coups of the early 1960s). He resigned in April 1965, before Suharto's coup in Indonesia took place.
Andrei Gromyko on Standard Oil's interests in Indonesia, written 1982 https://twitter.com/bostonbrakes/status/1105553766508568581
'Standard Oil in Indonesia, 1898–1928'. Reed, P. M. (1958). Business History Review, 32(03), 311–337.
https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3111745?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Material on the events of 1965 from Jess Melvin & others https://twitter.com/bostonbrakes/status/1089118960216403968
Julius Tahija's account of entering the oil industry at Sukarno's suggestion, seeing oil as a driver of post-independence development. Then got a job with Caltex (owned by Chevron and Texaco). Chevron had been granted a drilling concession in Sumatra as early as 1930
Julius Tahija's account of entering the oil industry at Sukarno's suggestion, seeing oil as a driver of post-independence development. Then got a job with Caltex (owned by Chevron and Texaco). Chevron had been granted a drilling concession in Sumatra as early as 1930
Julius Tahija's account of entering the oil industry at Sukarno's suggestion, seeing oil as a driver of post-independence development. Then got a job with Caltex (owned by Chevron and Texaco). Chevron had been granted a drilling concession in Sumatra as early as 1930
Caltex started digging in 1941 but it was the Japanese who struck oil when they invaded and took over the site, and who forced thousands of Sumatran labourers to build a route from the oil site to the western coast
Caltex started digging in 1941 but it was the Japanese who struck oil when they invaded and took over the site, and who forced thousands of Sumatran labourers to build a route from the oil site to the western coast
Caltex started digging in 1941 but it was the Japanese who struck oil when they invaded and took over the site, and who forced thousands of Sumatran labourers to build a route from the oil site to the western coast
Caltex worked w Bechtel to lay 'several thousand miles of road and pipeline across unmapped jungle' from 1951-58. Under Suharto, exports shot up, and Caltex had the green light to develop wells they'd identified under Sukarno. This 'SRI' (CIA?) event in '67 brought Bechtel back
Caltex worked w Bechtel to lay 'several thousand miles of road and pipeline across unmapped jungle' from 1951-58. Under Suharto, exports shot up, and Caltex had the green light to develop wells they'd identified under Sukarno. This 'SRI' (CIA?) event in '67 brought Bechtel back
Caltex worked w Bechtel to lay 'several thousand miles of road and pipeline across unmapped jungle' from 1951-58. Under Suharto, exports shot up, and Caltex had the green light to develop wells they'd identified under Sukarno. This 'SRI' (CIA?) event in '67 brought Bechtel back
Caltex worked w Bechtel to lay 'several thousand miles of road and pipeline across unmapped jungle' from 1951-58. Under Suharto, exports shot up, and Caltex had the green light to develop wells they'd identified under Sukarno. This 'SRI' (CIA?) event in '67 brought Bechtel back
At one point under Sukarno a militant trade union took over one of Tahija's factories. In contrast, during the 1958 CIA-backed secession attempt in Sumatra, the rebels let him and Caltex continue to operate
https://archive.org/details/juliustahijaentr00tahi/page/114
At one point under Sukarno a militant trade union took over one of Tahija's factories. In contrast, during the 1958 CIA-backed secession attempt in Sumatra, the rebels let him and Caltex continue to operate https://archive.org/details/juliustahijaentr00tahi/page/114
At one point under Sukarno a militant trade union took over one of Tahija's factories. In contrast, during the 1958 CIA-backed secession attempt in Sumatra, the rebels let him and Caltex continue to operate https://archive.org/details/juliustahijaentr00tahi/page/114
At one point under Sukarno a militant trade union took over one of Tahija's factories. In contrast, during the 1958 CIA-backed secession attempt in Sumatra, the rebels let him and Caltex continue to operate https://archive.org/details/juliustahijaentr00tahi/page/114
Caltex in Sumatra, Japanese takeover of drilling at the Minas site.
from James W. Gould, 'Americans in Sumatra', 1961.
Caltex in Sumatra, Japanese takeover of drilling at the Minas site.from James W. Gould, 'Americans in Sumatra', 1961.
Caltex in Sumatra, Japanese takeover of drilling at the Minas site.from James W. Gould, 'Americans in Sumatra', 1961.
Caltex in Sumatra, Japanese takeover of drilling at the Minas site.from James W. Gould, 'Americans in Sumatra', 1961.
Caltex in Sumatra, Japanese takeover of drilling at the Minas site.from James W. Gould, 'Americans in Sumatra', 1961.
"Royal Dutch" (later Shell) was founded on the basis of oil discovered in Sumatra in 1885, first refined for export as kerosene in 1892. The govt froze out Standard Oil to halt US influence. All of this oil was in independent Acehnese territory & the Dutch had taken it by force
"Royal Dutch" (later Shell) was founded on the basis of oil discovered in Sumatra in 1885, first refined for export as kerosene in 1892. The govt froze out Standard Oil to halt US influence. All of this oil was in independent Acehnese territory & the Dutch had taken it by force
"Royal Dutch" (later Shell) was founded on the basis of oil discovered in Sumatra in 1885, first refined for export as kerosene in 1892. The govt froze out Standard Oil to halt US influence. All of this oil was in independent Acehnese territory & the Dutch had taken it by force
Royal Dutch had a monopoly in Sumatra by 1911, when the Standard Trust was broken up. Since existing production was limited to Dutch citizens, US companies created Dutch subsidiaries for exploration. US imported surplus gasoline + Sumatran parafin until at least 1951
Royal Dutch had a monopoly in Sumatra by 1911, when the Standard Trust was broken up. Since existing production was limited to Dutch citizens, US companies created Dutch subsidiaries for exploration. US imported surplus gasoline + Sumatran parafin until at least 1951
Royal Dutch had a monopoly in Sumatra by 1911, when the Standard Trust was broken up. Since existing production was limited to Dutch citizens, US companies created Dutch subsidiaries for exploration. US imported surplus gasoline + Sumatran parafin until at least 1951
1918: Dutch govt lifted formal ban on new concessions, but still didn't grant them. The US Senate passed the Leasing Act to retaliate against overseas discrimination, started pressuring the Dutch, but the govt still granted exclusive concessions to the Royal Dutch subsidiary
1918: Dutch govt lifted formal ban on new concessions, but still didn't grant them. The US Senate passed the Leasing Act to retaliate against overseas discrimination, started pressuring the Dutch, but the govt still granted exclusive concessions to the Royal Dutch subsidiary
1918: Dutch govt lifted formal ban on new concessions, but still didn't grant them. The US Senate passed the Leasing Act to retaliate against overseas discrimination, started pressuring the Dutch, but the govt still granted exclusive concessions to the Royal Dutch subsidiary
1918: Dutch govt lifted formal ban on new concessions, but still didn't grant them. The US Senate passed the Leasing Act to retaliate against overseas discrimination, started pressuring the Dutch, but the govt still granted exclusive concessions to the Royal Dutch subsidiary
US companies weren't granted concessions till 1923, following intense pressure on Shell by the FTC & Department of the Interior. A mutual agreement to end all Dutch/US discrimination was signed in 1928
US companies weren't granted concessions till 1923, following intense pressure on Shell by the FTC & Department of the Interior. A mutual agreement to end all Dutch/US discrimination was signed in 1928
US companies weren't granted concessions till 1923, following intense pressure on Shell by the FTC & Department of the Interior. A mutual agreement to end all Dutch/US discrimination was signed in 1928
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