"> Name: State Department removes controversial telegraph from text

Date:  1995 - 2005

Location:  North America

Subject:  Political/Economic/Social Opinion , Other

Medium:  Textbook

Artist: State Department, and Government Printing Office of the United States

Confronting Bodies: State Department and the GPO.

Date of Action: 2001

Specific Location: Washington, D.C.

Description of Artwork: The Government Printing Office released a State Department cable in it's National Security Archive, "Foreign Relations of the United States 1964-68, Volume XXVII, Indonesia, Malaysia-Singapore, Philippines." The quotation in question refers to the State Department's knowledge and support of destroying the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI).



Description of Incident: The GPO announced that it would consider repealling the transmission and attempt to recall the books from library shelves



Results of Incident: The State Department asked the GPO not to sell any more copies of the book containing the letter in question.



Source: The New York Times

Submitted By: NCAC

 





	


FileRoom Search  |  
Table of Contents  |  
Category Homepage  |
NCAC