Oz puts itself in the frame

[Brad DeLong]

>G'day all,
>
>Australia's Foreign Affairs Department today released a package of secret
>documents concerning East Timor - from July 1974 to late 1976.  It shows
>our secret service knew of a provisional invasion plan in July '74, that Oz
>PM Whitlam (the left's hero here) not only condoned but very possibly
>encouraged Soeharto to go in (the latter says in the papers that his plans
>and resolve 'crystallised' during his September '74 talks with Whitlam),
>and that the Department knew three days in advance of the Indonesian battle
>plan - including the rather important bit about how the town of Balibo was
>a focus for the assault - which is where we had our journalists ensconced,
>and which is where they duly died three days later.
>
>Just in case you're interested ...
>Rob.

Are they online?...