Dalam sebuah tulisan yang dimuat di Gallery Magazine edisi Agustus 1976 oleh L. Fletcher Prouty berjudul Indonesia 1958: Nixon, the CIA, and the Secret War (http://usedmagazines.com/titles/Gallery/1976/), diceritakan bahwa janda mendiang Presiden RI pertama Ahmad Soekarno pernah mengirimkan surat kepada Presiden AS Gerald Ford (Nixon adalah wakil presiden kala itu) yang ditulis di Paris tanggal 24 Juli 1975 yang isinya mempertanyakan perihal peran CIA pada kejadian besar dalam sejarah Indonesia tahun 1958 dan 1965. Surat ini tidak pernah mendapat balasan. Dan kabarnya terselip diantara tumpukan surat-surat Presiden Ford. Tapi sepertinya hal tersebut mustahil. Dan tidak adanya jawaban berarti kita dapat menyimpulkan sendiri apa jawabannya.

Berikut Isi suratnya :

His Excellency President Gerald Ford
The White House
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. President,

As the widow of the late President Sukarno and being the only member of the family living overseas, I address myself to you, being deeply alarmed and disturbed by numerous and persistent reports in the international press. For instance, the CIA is said to have spied on my husband: manufactured a fake film in order to slander the good name and honor of Sukarno: prepared an assassination attempt against him and conspired to oust him from power to estrange him from the Indonesian people by accusing him of collaborating with international communism in betrayal of Indonesian independence, which of course was totally absurd.
My husband has repeatedly informed me that he was fully aware of these immoral, illegal, subversive, anti-Indonesian activities against his beloved Indonesia, his people, and against him personally.
I would like to request from you, as well as from the responsible Congressional Committees in the United States a full explanation about these reports and reprehensible practices as carried out by an official United States Government Agency in the name of several American Presidents and Governments.
Both in 1958 and in 1965, the CIA directly interfered in the internal affairs of Indonesia. In 1958, this monstrous action led to civil war. In 1965, it led to the ultimate takeover by a pro-Amencan military regime, while hundreds of thousands of innocent peasants and loyal citizens were massacred in the name of this insane crusade against international communism. Still today, ten years later, many tens of thousands of true patriots and Sukarnoists are locked up in jails and concentration camps being denied the simplest and most elementary human rights. American companies and aggressive foreign interests are indiscriminately plundering the natural riches of Indonesia to the advantage of the few and the disadvantage of the millions of unemployed and impoverished masses.
I must now ask you, Mr. President, in the name of freedom and justice, in the name of decency in relations between states and statesmen, between powerful nations and developing lands, in the name of the Indonesian people and the Sukarno family: did the United States of America commit these hideous crimes against Indonesia and against the founder of the nation? Will your Government be prepared to accept responsibility for these evil practices? Over one hundred million Indonesians have been brainwashed, as was the rest of the world by the present regime’s propaganda to believe that the communists carried out the insurrection. My countrymen, as well as everyone else, have the right to know the truth of the historic facts. It will be the painful duty for America now to reveal the CIA involvement in Indonesia and release all information and documents relevant to who really initiated the terrifying bloodbath that led to the overthrow of the legal Government and to the inhuman treatment in house arrest lasting three years until my husband’s death.
In closing, I would like to strongly appeal to you, Mr. President, to use your influence with the military regime in Jakarta, to immediately free those many thousands of political prisoners, men and women, former cabinet ministers, writers and journalists, who I know are entirely innocent of the crime of treason they have been accused of. If the United States were to be instrumental in helping to improve the fate of so many thousands of courageous compatriots, I think the entire Indonesian nation would be grateful and Indonesians would regain their confidence in America’s intentions towards the Third World.

Respectfully,

R. S. Dewi Sukarno
July 24, 1975

Seperti kita ketahui pada tahun 1958 terjadi gerakan koreksi PRRI/Permesta. Kemudian tahun 1965 adalah puncak perebutan kekuasaan yang kemudian menhantarkan Soeharto menjadi Presiden RI yang kedua sekaligus menamatkan riwayat Achmad Soekarno yang mendapatkan tahanan rumah dan akhirnya meninggal tahun 1970.