To counter Indonesia's powerful Communist Party, known as the PKI, the army's Red Berets organized the slaughter of thousands of men, women and children. So many bodies were dumped into the rivers of East Java that they ran red with blood. In a classic psy-war tactic, the bloated carcasses also served as a political warning to villages down river. And the departure of corpses from the Kediri region down the Brantas achieved its golden age when bodies were stacked on rafts over which the PKI banner proudly flew. Counterinsurgency Counter-terrorism .
Covert operations are obvious to the enemy, which is being engaged by it.
What is meant by 'covert war' is that it remains covert to the American people and specifically Congress. Iran-Contra and Consistent Themes During the Cold War CIA and Narcotic Sales . Mary's Three Challenges , details the foreign policy basis of American involvement in human rights abuses abroad. In the 1950s, special squadrons were assigned to do the dirty work. Valeriano's Nenita Unit.