Podcast
Confronting Indonesia JFK
The Donald Jeffries Show, Vol.11 May 2022
PodBean
2022
Abstract
Dr. Greg Poulgrain discusses his book JFKvs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia. Although Dulles and Kennedy often clashed, wildly after JFK fired the iconic intelligence figure following the Bay of Pigs fiasco until now this particular conflict had remained largely in the shadows. Poulgrain recounts how a Dulles-established company discovered the world’s largest gold deposit in remote Netherlands New Guinea. President Kennedy added this land to President Sukarno’s Indonesia twenty-six years later, in 1962. Dulles wanted to establish regime change in Indonesia, to seize control of these vast resources of gold. On the other hand, JFK supported nationalist movements everywhere, including Sukarno’s Indonesia. Poultrain scoured the archive records and talked to many of those involved, including JFK’s Secretary of State Dean Rusk.
Details
- Title
- Confronting Indonesia JFK
- Authors
- Gregory Poulgrain (Author)
- Publication details
- The Donald Jeffries Show, Vol.11 May 2022
- Format
- 2 hours
- Publisher
- PodBean
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99665996102621
- Output Type
- Podcast
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