The latest WikiLeaks cables reveal the Federal Government has barred a former Indonesian general implicated in the Balibo Five killings from entering Australia.

Yunus Yosfiah was a special forces captain during the 1975 invasion of East Timor and later became a general and a cabinet minister in the 1990s.

The New South Wales Deputy Coroner found in 2007 that he ordered and participated in the murder of the five Australian newsmen at Balibo.

The US diplomatic cables published in Fairfax Media say the Australian and Indonesian governments then worked together to minimise the fallout from the scandal.

They say that although no formal charges were laid against him, the Federal Government declared Yosfiah to be persona non grata with sanctions that would prevent him from entering Australia.