Beki Mc.’s Reviews > The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World > Status Update

"But how could the international press, and the State Department, remain entirely untroubled by the fact that this was achieved through the mass murder of unarmed civilians? Howard Federspiel, at the State Department, summed up the answer perfectly. 'No one cared,' he recalled, 'as long as they were communists, that they were being butchered.'"