According to State Department memos, however, Ford and Kissinger supported the invasion of East Timor (something Kissinger instructed his staff to keep secret), despite State Department protests that the invasion was illegal and “violated a treaty with the US because US weapons were used.”7 In fact, the “the United States was Indonesia’s principal supplier of military hardware” and continued to supply arms to Indonesia after the killing of civilians.8 Under Kissinger’s watch, and by his approval, American weapons were the tools of genocide.