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Leaked cables: US predicts Timor invasion, 'keep us out of it'

The leak of the so-called “Kissinger Cables” has shown that while the US expected Indonesia would invade what was then Portuguese Timor in 1975, it did not wish to be implicated in the affair. A cable dated August 16, 1975 said that the US’ “only secret” regarding Portuguese Timor was its desire not to become […]