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Sukarno, the former president of a conservative Indonesia, was once allegedly blackmailed with sex tape by the CIA in the 1950s. He requested copies and asked to share it publicly. How was this possible? What was the public response like?

by /u/Khilafiah in /r/AskHistorians

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