The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Bevins, Vincent

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ The "trenchant" and "powerful" (Boston Review) hidden history of the secret program of mass-killings of left-wing activists, in Indonesia, Latin America and around the world, supported and encouraged by the US. In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil and Chile. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely because the CIA's secret interventions were so successful. In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins builds on his incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently declassified documents, archival research and eye-witness testimony collected across twelve countries to reveal a shocking