During the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, Masters actively aided and abetted the genocide by systematically supplying lists of members of the Communist Party of Indonesia to the death squads.
[1] Masters was born on June 21, 1924, in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
[3] He served as the deputy chief of the United States embassy in Thailand from 1971 to 1975.
[2] Masters was appointed the ambassador of the United States to Bangladesh on October 4, 1976.
[6] He was the founding president of United States-Indonesia society, a post he held from 1994 to 2001.