The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World, by Vincent Bevins take us into the clandestine world of anti-communist crimes committed by the United State and other totalitarian allies during the Cold War. The author explains that the US feared that Indonesia would fall to communism; this large and well populated country had to stay out of the American orbit, at any cost. And the mass murder and terror campaign used to accomplish this became a program of sorts. The Jakarta Method was the brutal installation of right wing dictators in countries that America feared would fall to communism. The result was a nightmare.
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