Fact check
Is it true: East Timor 1975–99: Indonesian occupation and US/Australian green light?
Yes — this is confirmed.
Declassified US Embassy Jakarta telegram (6 December 1975) documents Ford and Kissinger's advance knowledge of and non-objection to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. Indonesia invaded the following day. CAVR 'Chega!' report (2005) documents 102,800 conflict-related deaths 1974–99 (range 90,800–183,800). The 1991 Santa Cruz Massacre was filmed by Max Stahl and broadcast globally. Australian government complicity during the Whitlam era is separately documented by declassified Australian materials.
The claim
On 7 December 1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor — one day after President Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met with Suharto in Jakarta and, according to a declassified US Embassy telegram,
Key evidence
Declassified Jakarta telegram documents Ford/Kissinger non-objection, December 6 1975
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