left-wing junior officers to eliminate conservative generalsÃ?â??1'Ameri can officials remained in doubt as to who Suharto was," writes Brands. He argues that Washington could not have engi- neered the coup: Declassified cables and memos show that the Americans never really knew what was going on in Jakarta. As late as October 13, for example, Secre- tary of State Dean Rusk noted: "We are not
at all clear as to who is calling the shots within the military." He instructed...