When CIA bombed Indonesia

This

Charles Chong says historian Thum had ‘engineered’ support for himself, points to ‘coordinated attempt’ with ‘foreign actors’ to subvert parliamentary process

and the sebsequent KPKBing by the ang moh tua kees (“witch hunt”) reminded me of documented foreign interference in the affairs of SE Asian countries in the 1950s.

The story of an almost forgotten episode in the histories of the CIA and Indonesia. The CIA’s airforce was supporting rebels in Sulawesi.

http://www.warhistoryonline.com/guest-bloggers/pby-catalina-26-invaders-p-51-mustangs-cia-rebel-air-force-attacking-indonesia-1958-m.html

The CIA was also active in supplying arms to the Acheh rebels at the other end of Indonesia.

This was happening around the time the British detained people like Devan Nair and Lim Chin Siong here for subversion.

Then there was the incident related in Why PAP (and PMs) sue and sue a year later here. Might not be the CIA directly but weren’t the KMT friends of the CIA? 

“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.”

― Joseph Heller, Catch-22