Hi! I just found this video allegely a lot of foreign interference in elections following World War II by the USA. While some are generally pretty well known (ie Iran and Chile) there's others alleged that I can't find much evidence for online. Would anyone either be able to help find sources OR debunk these?
The video in question (2:33 long) https://themorningnews.org/p/known-instances-of-electoral-interference-carried-out-by-us-ussr-russia
Countries I cannot find source for:
With regards to 1955 in Indonesia the following excerpt is from The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins:
And one more event in 1955, in Indonesia, alarmed the anticommunists in power in Washington even more. The CIA spent a million dollars trying to influence the parliamentary elections in September of that year. The Agency’s chosen partners, the Masjumi, were solidly to the right of Sukarno. Nevertheless, Sukarno and his supporters did well. 76 Even worse for the Americans, the PKI came in fourth place, with 17 percent of the votes cast. It was the best performance in the history of the Indonesian Communist Party.
The citation from the book:
Thomas, The Very Best Men , 157–58; Jess Melvin, The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder (New York: Routledge, 2018), 7.