#1003 – Greg Poulgrain

 

  • Author of the new book JFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia
  • Foreword by Oliver Stone and afterword by Jim DiEugenio
  • Also the author of The Incubus of Intervention
  • Download Chapter 2: JFK, Dulles and Hammarskjold (PDF)
  • How Greg Poulgrain got interested in the case
  • Indonesia and India were the most profitable colonies
  • Indonesia was exploited for 100 years more than India
  • Dag Hammarskjold, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Documentary: Cold Case Hammarskjold: Stream on AmazoniTunesDirectvMicrosoftVerizonVudu
  • Kennedy’s planned trip to Indonesia in early 1964
  • Sino-soviet split
  • Book: The Devil’s Chessboard by David Talbot: HardcoverPaperbackKindleAudiobook
  • Dutch vs. Rockefeller interests in Guinea
  • Richest deposits of gold
  • Enough gold for 200 years of mining !!
  • Freeport Indonesia, the American company in Indonesia
  • Joseph Luns, ex-Secretary General of NATO
  • Greg Poulgrain interviewed Luns
  • The Dutch were kicked out of Indonesia by the American mining interests
  • During WWII, Dean Rusk was one of the top five intelligence people working in the US Army
  • Kennedy wanted to stop konfrontasi
  • Dulles was keen to describe Sukarno as communist
  • Sukarno was a nationalist, not a communist
  • Regime change to overthrow Sukarno and replace him with Suharto
  • The great killings of 1965-66
  • More than a million people killed
  • One of the worst massacres of the twentieth century
  • How Suharto became the president
  • Chapter 7 of JFK vs. Allen Dulles deals with the coup and how Suharto became President
  • Church Committee identified Dulles as responsible for the death of Patrice Lumumba
  • Allen Dulles was the first person approached by Japan for surrender after World War II
  • President Roosevelt appointed Dulles and Bill Donovan to get America into World War II
  • After John Foster Dulles died, Allen Dulles went berserk
  • Allen Dulles knew George de Mohrenschildt since he was 10 years old
  • De Mohrenschildt discovered oil in New Guinea
  • Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew was trained by the British intelligence