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NOTES1. East gave his diary for 1963-64, and related papers, to the author shortly before he died. They willbe deposited with the ADFA Library but the diary will not be available for public access for severalyears.2. Cablegram Australian Embassy Jakarta to Department of External Affairs (DEA), 16 March 1960.National Australia Archive (NAA) Series A1838 (1838/280), Control 3034/10/1, Part 10.3. East Diary, 16 December 1963.4. Cablegrams from Australian Embassy Jakarta to DEA, 24 and 31 January 1963. NAA Series A1838(A1838/280), Control 3034/10/1, Part 12.5. Letter Townley to Nasution dated 18 June 1962. NAA Series A1838 (A1838/280), Control 3034/10/1,Part 11. Major Noel Graham also attended a one year field grade officer advanced course at theInfantry Centre from July 1963.6. Cablegram DEA to London and Kuala Lumpur, copied to Jakarta, after media coverage of East’spresence at SESKOAD in January 1964.7. For details of his career, see East’s obituary in Journal of the Royal United Service Institute of NSW,Vol. 52, No. 2, 2000.8. East had been promoted Temporary Major in Japan but on return from the UK had to revert to hissubstantive rank of Captain. He was promoted again in Korea at the Battle School.9. Letter Mogg to Brigadier F.G. Hassett, Military Secretary, Army Headquaters, Melbourne, 12 February1960.10. The national defence college (LEMHANNAS) took this function from 1965.11. East did not record the topic of his military essay.12. Major General H. Sudirman, Commandant of SESKOAD from January 1962 to June 1966. Accordingto East he was a ‘lonely and very shy’ figure and a devout Muslim who tried to live on his officialsalary, which was impossible. East recalled dropping by his house on one occasion and finding hiswife in tears because she could not make ends meet, with her social obligations of entertainingpeople, and the salary he got.13. Herbert Feith, The Decline of Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia, Ithaca: Cornel UniversityPress, 1962, p. 130.14. Soehirno (ed.), Buku Kenang-Kenangan Alumni KMA Breda, Yayasan Wira Bhakti, Jakarta, 1997, p. 82.15. For details on Australia’s contribution to ‘Confrontation’, see Peter Edwards and Greg Pemberton,Crises and Commitments, North Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992.16. Cablegram DEA to Australian High Commissions in Britain and Malaysia of 8 January 1964. NAASeries A1838 (A1838/280) 3034/10/1, Part 18.17. East diary, 23 February 1964. While it is obvious that foreign students derive basic intelligenceabout the country and armed forces of their host country, they have no access to classified plansor sensitive locations and any advantage accrued is reciprocal and useful whether the host is friendor foe.18. East diary, 16-21 February 1964.19. Jasin had played a leading role in defeating the revolt in Aceh and was awaiting a posting to Moscowas military attaché. He was eventually promoted lieutenant general but was sidelined by Suharto inthe mid-1970s.20. Bruce Grant, Indonesia, London: Melbourne University Press, 1964. Shann distributed more than 30copies to various ministers and opinion makers.21. The political leader of the revolt, Kahar Muzakar, was killed in February 1965.22. East diary, 4 December 1964.54