History
The CIA & KGB Used Sex Tapes to Overthrow President Sukarno
One agency had to fake while the other had the real tape
The Independence movement Leader Sukarno became Indonesia’s first president from 1949 to 1966. Sukarno suppressed the country’s original parliamentary system in favor of his authoritarian “Guided Democracy.” He also attempted to balance the Communists against the army officers. Sukarno was deposed by the army under Suharto in 1966.
Sukarno’s name was never Sukarno. His original name was “Soekarno” — a spelling mistake made him the famous Sukarno.
Indonesia got its freedom from the Dutch colonialists after World War II and a war for independence. Sukarno played an important role in the nation’s freedom movement. When he became the first president of Indonesia, Sukarno impressed the Indonesian public with his reign.
Indonesians regarded him as their ‘National Hero.’
Sukarno tried his best to run the government. But his behavior quickly grabbed the attention of foreign intelligence commands from all around the world.
The importance of Indonesia’s geographical location was the main reason for attention — it was a strategic country in South East Asia.
It had been the focus of contention between the USA and the Soviet Union.
Sukarno as the national hero failed miserably with the economy and shifted his focus around the West, the Soviets, and China.
While he was not a communist leader, but still western countries were not accepting his presidency. Apart from the strategic location of Indonesia, it had a large population Communist Party.
So the USA and Soviets were in contention for his presence in the nation.
The KGB’s Sex Tape
The KGB wanted Sukarno on their side, they tried all the ways of pleasing him, and when pleasing failed they did not hesitate to blackmail him.
The KGB blackmailed Sukarno with a film of him with “a flight attendant” during his visit to Moscow in 1960. It happened to tarnish to discredit his image in front of Indonesians and ignite a revolution against him.
When Russian confronted him about the sex tape, Sukarno asked to watch that sex tape and he was apparently delighted. He even asked for an extra copy of that sex tape.
He wanted that video to show back in his country.
The CIA’s Sex tape
When the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) learned about the Russian blackmail, it released a pornographic film of Sukarno. It was rumored that a Japanese actor helped to produce a pornographic film with some porn actresses.
The CIA was so persistent in efforts to destroy Sukarno’s image, that it spent millions of dollars to create that pornographic film featuring a full-face masked person resembling Sukarno!!
The film’s intention was to make Sukarno look bad to Muslims, by showing he was having sex with prostitutes. Indonesia is an Islamic nation.
Ironically, the CIA film made Sukarno look macho, and the CIA — foolish.
When prominent Indonesians saw the film, they actually laughed at the CIA.
In 1962, British Prime Minister Harrold MacMillian sent a memo to US president John F. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) entitled: “liquidate President Sukarno, depending on the situation and available opportunities.”
In 1965 the CIA paid 100,000 pounds to the British spy MI6 s Jakarta office to underwrite efforts to get rid of Sukarno.
MI6 ran a propaganda campaign against Sukarno that blamed Indonesia’s troubles on Chinese Communist dictator Mao Zedong. Consequently, Sukarno was blamed to support the slaughter of tens of thousands of ethnic Chinese.
That was how the Sukarno government collapsed, but sex tapes failed miserably.
That was the time when there were no facilities such as the internet, so identifying the real or fake was very tough, as it is today.
The propaganda of ‘real-to-reel’ pornography did not work out for the masses — it did not tarnish the image of the subject but for themselves.
References:
https://flaunt.com/content/art/column-body-doubles
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/aug/16/broadcasting.tvandradio
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2758262
surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/c_war_os/cwar_os_suharto_power.htm
