[1] She was in the Moluccas in eastern Indonesia in April 1958 when a CIA aircraft involved in a covert mission against the Sukarno government bombed and damaged her.

[3] On 28 April 1948 the British Communist MP Willie Gallacher raised Mr George's allegations in the UK House of Commons.

[3] The Labour Government's Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Christopher Mayhew MP, replied refuting the allegations in detail.

[3] Mayhew's Labour colleague Will Nally MP added that on 17 February the Nigerian Review had published an article headlined "Fantastic story about stowaways is proved false", that also had refuted Mr George's claims.

[3] At the end of April 1958 Aquila was in ballast and anchored off Ambon City in Indonesia[1] when she was attacked by a black, unmarked[4] Douglas B-26 Invader ostensibly operated by right-wing Permesta rebels.

[1] In fact, the attack was part of a U.S. CIA covert operation in support of Permesta in North Sulawesi intended to destabilise President Sukarno's Guided Democracy in Indonesia administration.

[5] On 18 May the Indonesian Navy and Air Force shot down Pope's aircraft and captured him,[8] after which the US scaled back the CIA operation and in time revised its policy towards Indonesia.