Australian cited in files on Indonesia's communism purge

By Jewel Topsfield
Updated October 21 2017 - 10:23pm, first published 10:14pm
PERTH, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 01:  Journalist Frank Palmos poses for a portrait on October 1, 2015 in Perth, Australia. Palmos was one of the first journalists in the western world to write about the Communism massascres in Indonesia.  (Photo by Philip Gostelow/Fairfax Media)
PERTH, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 01: Journalist Frank Palmos poses for a portrait on October 1, 2015 in Perth, Australia. Palmos was one of the first journalists in the western world to write about the Communism massascres in Indonesia. (Photo by Philip Gostelow/Fairfax Media)

Jakarta: Among a trove of chilling declassified documents that reveal the US government's knowledge and support of a campaign of mass murder against Indonesia's Communist Party in the mid 1960s, one "important cable" cites as its source a "reliable Australian journalist".

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