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...will present demands for immediate declassification of DAS field reports and for termination of all DAS activities to Lester Gordon, director of DAS...
...DAS is the largest branch of the Center for International Affairs. It sends advisors overseas to counsel governments of underdeveloped countries on economic policy...
Gordon said yesterday afternoon that the DAS has not made the field reports public because they contain confidential material on DAS personnel and are "Internal administrative documents I think any organization has the right to control access...
There is a large assortment of source material on the DAS's work that is open to the public in the DAS library, Gordon added...
There are a couple of historical statements in the article, which have only a very peripheral connection with the DAS. But for the sake of historical accuracy they are worth pointing out. There are no "industrialists" in Suharto's "retinue," or anywhere else in position of power, since nearly all major Indonesian industrial firms are state-owned. Much more important is that the present regime did not come to power by an "anti-Communist coup." There was an attempted Communist coup, supported by the Commander and officers of the Air Force, the Community party newspaper, armed units of the Communist...