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In Red Weather tells the story of Dan Cameron, an ex-CIA agent and one of the last living insiders who witnessed the events that culminated in the alleged communist coup in Indonesia in 1965. The coup was the pecursor to the brutal transition that ended the advance of communisim in…
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The late Daniel Cameron served as an undercover CIA officer at a remote post in Indonesia in the early 1960s, during the height of the Cold War, when Sukarno was playing off the Chinese, Soviets, and the Americans, leading to the fateful and tragic events of 1965.
Cameron describes these events, including his and a fellow Dutchman’s incredible espionage coup, stealing designs of Soviet missiles, saving hundreds if American pilots’ lives during the Vietnam War. Cameron’s memoir reads like a spy thriller, and he expertly captures the excitement, mood, authenticity, and sense of place, similar to the writings of Joseph…
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