A review by huerca_armada
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

5.0

A gripping look into the covert efforts of the CIA and the far-reaching implications of a world crusade against communism that dominated the Cold War. Bevins does an excellent job in tying connections between the far-flung locales of Jakarta, Brasilia, Sao Paolo, Santiago, and (of course) Washington. While light on the personal accounts of horror and brutality experienced by many during the course of events outlined, Bevins gives an unflinching look into the thoughts and minds of policy-makers in the West as brutal anticommunist purges are being carried out.