1958 ⟶ CIA B-26 Shot Down in Indonesia
On a bombing mission in support of the anti-Sukarno Permesta...
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🤝 Soviet Union Establishes Diplomatic Relations with Indonesia
Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Indonesia through an exchange of telegrams between Indonesian Vice-president, Mohammad Hatta and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrey Vyshinsky.⟶
Soviet UnionIndonesiadiplomatic relationsCold WarAsiaSoutheast Asiainternational relations
🇬🇹 CIA-Backed Coup Overthrows Guatemalan Government
The elected leftist Guatemalan government is overthrown in a CIA-backed coup. An unstable rightist regime installs itself. Opposition leads to a guerrilla war with Marxist rebels in which major human rights abuses are committed on all sides. Nevertheless, the regime survives until the end of the Cold War.⟶
GuatemalaCIACoupCold WarLatin AmericaHuman RightsInterventionismGuerrilla War
✈️ CIA B-26 Shot Down in Indonesia
On a bombing mission in support of the anti-Sukarno Permesta Rebellion, a B-26 bomber supplied by the CIA is shot down in Ambon, Indonesia. The pilot, US citizen Allen Lawrence Pope is captured and imprisoned.⟶
CIAIndonesiaPermesta RebellionCold WarCovert OperationsInterventionismSoutheast AsiaWarUS
😠 Indonesia Rejects Formation of Malaysia
Indonesia declares that it rejects the formation of Malaysia, through the statement of their then-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Subandrio. Sukarno himself, as the first President of Indonesia, regarded Malaysia as a neo-colonial project and as a British puppet state in Southeast Asia. This marks the beginning of Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation.⟶
IndonesiaMalaysiaConfrontationSoutheast AsiaBritish EmpireSukarnoCold War
