The US-supplied information was superior to anything they had. The death lists had been drawn up after 1962 at the instigation of the CIA's then Far East division chief, William Colby, who later became CIA director. It was a practice that was not confined to Indonesia. Colby gave an interview in 1990 comparing the intelligence-gathering on the PKI to the infamous Phoenix Program that he directed in Vietnam, in which 20,000 members and supporters of the National Liberation Front were targetted for assassination. These have been added to recently declassified documents, as well as records on the US killing lists obtained in 1990 by a US lawyer, Kathy Kadane.
Momentum is now at peak with discovery of bodies of murdered army leaders.
Army urged to go further Two days later, Green warned Washington that he was worried that the military might not go far enough. The next day, October 8, Green was more optimistic. This capped today with burning of PKI headquarters in Jakarta. Youth groups sacked second PKI bookstore. On the same day, he was eager to pass on confidential reports that mass executions had begun.