I like your summary, only point of contention I might have is if they went to Indonesia in 1965-did they have enough money? I think they did and that their later pleading poor was just another ploy to get a waiver and benefit for Lolo to stay in the USA. I agree they would tell whatever they thought they needed to to benefit themselves.
An application by Stanley Ann in 1965 would show a lot more info. Apparently someone got to it first, which looks like a crime to me.
I agree the impression one gets from the documents is that they would say whatever they needed to say to get a result they wanted.
Interesting that the exchange student center seemed to be against Lolo getting a waiver and thought he was intentionally trying to wiggle around the rules and do an end run around them.
Also it is ironic to hear Lolo complain about the communists in Indonesia. One wonders if he fully realized in the early years that he had married a full-blown red diaper baby. Or maybe he was just stating things that he thought an American state department official would want to hear. Ann surely must have viewed such people as presumptive anti-communist jingoist imperialists.
Apparently someone got to it first
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Yes. Someone who probably worked as a contract employee for John O. Brennan. Cauterizing passport files, the reported specialty.