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CIA bombing blamed
on Indonesian rebels
1958 |
“SS San Flaviano was a 1950s British oil tanker owned by Eagle Oil and Shipping Company, a British subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell. She was built by Cammell Laird in England in 1956 and attacked and sunk by the CIA in Borneo in 1958. ... On 28 April San Flaviano was in Balikpapan Harbour, in the East Kalimantan Province of Borneo, when a Douglas B-26 Invader bomber aircraft, flown by the CIA and painted black and with no markings,[2] bombed and sank her. ... The CIA pilots had orders to target commercial shipping to drive foreign merchant ships away from Indonesian waters, thereby weakening the Indonesian economy and destabilising the Indonesian government of President Sukarno ... In June 1958 both the Indonesian and UK governments claimed that the aircraft had been flown by Indonesian rebels. ... concealing the CIA involvement of which both governments were well aware.”*
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