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Claims (58)
Dalai Lama member_of
Tibet documented
“Focus on an area in central Tibet that was under the control of the Dalai Lama, even though at this point the Dalai Lama was kind of hanging out in India. So obviously he's an important symbol. And I don't know if you guys know the story. T…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 3:08
CIA funded
Tibet documented
“the cost of the Tibetan program for 1964 can be approximated figures as follows. And it ends up being, you know, I don't know, almost $2 million in the early 1960s. So the CIA in one year is spending $2 million to brainwash America to belie…”
▶ Operation Gladio - State of the GOP and Tibet @ 29:16
King of Nepal pardoned
Tibet documented
“One of them escaped with the archives from the resistance fighters and an escort, only to be killed in an ambush later. Seven other Tibetan leaders who surrendered at Mustang sat in jail in Kathmandu until pardoned by the king in 1981. That…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 44:37
CIA trained
Tibet documented
“This is what the CIA wrote. Summary. The CIA Tibetan activity consists of political action, propaganda, and paramilitary activity. The purpose of the program at this stage is to keep the, at this stage, which means it was not the beginning,…”
▶ Operation Gladio - State of the GOP and Tibet @ 22:37
Dalai Lama removed_from_power
Tibet documented
“Sat in his cabinet, two mortar shells exploded in a garden nearby. That Tuesday, the decision was hastily made for the Dalai Lama to flee again. The Dalai Lama abandoned his stand against the confrontation between Tibetans and Chinese. That…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 9:26
CIA spied_on
Tibet documented
“took photos of Tibet for the very first time. Continued reluctance to reveal CIA operations in Tibet undoubtedly relates to the later improvement of U.S. relationship with the area. Today, it is thought indelicate to draw attention to the e…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 40:05
Frank Holaber funded
Tibet book_quoted
“Frank Holaber recalls the agency had already began annual subsidies of approximately 200,000 inside of Tibet, but the money went for political, not paramilitary action, according to him. At the time, the Dalai Lama remained in India, still …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 42:01
CIA trained
Tibet book_quoted
“marked planes through Taiwan to Saipan. There they went full CIA training. Roger McCarthy, one of the Saipan inspectors, recalls that CIA teams had precise things that they wanted to train them in and very little time. Eli Popovich found th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 43:03
CIA supplied_arms_to
Tibet book_quoted
“and they were adamantly opposed to killing the ants, that that would be an ominous sign. That had to have been interesting. The same Tibetans who agonized over ants would be fierce fighters and kill people. They demanded sophisticated weapo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 44:07
CIA trained
Tibet book_quoted
“They used an old World War II base. We've come across this a couple of different times at Camp Hell, where they flew into Colorado Springs and trucked them up to the mountains. So they were in accommodations that they're used to being in, w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 48:21
CIA trained
Tibet host_asserted
“sponsored a U.S. lecture tour with the Dalai Lama's eldest brother, speaking in support of a rebellion just before there was a rebellion. Imagine that. Complementing airdrops was CIA training. Recruits often took a month to negotiate the tr…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 39:08
United Kingdom targeted_for_regime_change
Tibet host_asserted
“From an independent sovereign country to a semi-colonial country, imperialist forces took advantage of a weak Dwing dynasty and began plotting to carve up China, including Tibet. In order to bring Tibet into the sphere of influence, British…”
▶ Operation Gladio - State of the GOP and Tibet @ 11:54
Dalai Lama spied_on
Tibet host_asserted
“During this 40-year time frame, we also ran an operation with Tibet. We went into Tibet and we pulled out a whole bunch of people, brought them to the mountains of Colorado and trained them all to be mercenaries too, to be assassins. And th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs Oil and War Part 4 @ 1:09:14
CIA trained
Tibet documented
“the U-2 missions to support this Tibetan China mission from Pakistan. Expansion of the CIA program brought the training of Tibetans to the U.S. Five groups totaling nearly 700 trainees. Tibetans flew into Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 41:33
People's Liberation Army carried_out_attack
Tibet book_quoted
“they had with the Dalai Lama. Signs in the capital were ominous. A sacred object, a gilded wooden dragon, began to drip water from its mouth. The People's Liberation Army approached the area in the summer of 1950 and then eventually to Tibe…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 23:59
People's Liberation Army carried_out_attack
Tibet book_quoted
“never had time to succeed. In August, the PLA 18th Army defeated a tiny Tibetan force that was futile in nature. A handful of ancient guns, the Dalai Lama's personal guard, and armed monks and farmers fled. Dalai Lama then agreed to Chinese…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 24:31
People's Liberation Army carried_out_attack
Tibet book_quoted
“In one of the mountainous regions, tribesmen disarmed them, cut off their noses, and then sent them back as a warning. These people joined forces with a neighboring chief of more than 100,000 families, already fighting for several years. Th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 35:02
Gampo Tashi recruited
Tibet book_quoted
“had been a paramilitary veteran of Korea. CIA officer in Korea moves to Japan, works with Fitzgerald, and becomes the ops officer for the Tibet campaign. Not long afterwards, the wealthy Tibetan trader and now resistance leader, Gampo Tashi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 38:07
CIA recruited
Tibet host_asserted
“This provided CIA recruiters with a whole new pool of prospects to recruit. For the Chinese communists, the Tibetan War was a conflict for roads. In the early years, the roads were the substance as well as the symbol of the arrival of Mao's…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 46:19
CIA carried_out_attack
Tibet host_asserted
“Korea, Laos, I mean, millions if you bring in Cambodia, all along that. But if you just focused on North Vietnam, North Korea, and Tibet, you've got hundreds of thousands of people that ended up dead, all so that they could insert Chiang Ka…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 1:07:29
CIA recruited
Tibet host_asserted
“start from there. We're in February of 1956, and we were talking about the CIA operation of recruiting Tibetans to create stay-behind units. So in late February, in the third week of the Tibetan New Year celebration, the PLA suddenly laid s…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 4:49
CIA supplied_arms_to
Tibet documented
“to the partisans. In central Tibet, a partisan unit under Ardo Leshe was the recipient of some of the earliest American airdrops. They guarded these and the rebels depended on the bulk of these airdrops for their ammunition. Now, I want you…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 8:19
CIA trained
Tibet documented
“After September 57, the CIA trained Tibetans were a couple of self-contained teams. One was linked to the major resistance area. Warfare brought cleavages to the Tibetan society. The nonviolent Buddhist Tibetans had a moral problem in choos…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 10:22
CIA supplied_arms_to
Tibet documented
“highly dangerous missions. The CIA's failure in Indonesia became a perverse boon to the Tibetan secret war. Stocks of weapons and equipment the agency had assembled for Indonesia got diverted to Tibet. Their battle flag, first raised in Jun…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 18:50
CIA supplied_arms_to
Tibet documented
“and 14th U-2 missions flew over the country, the first since the early planning for Project Circus. The vast majority of the CIA supply flights to Tibet took place over a 10-month period beginning in May 1959, though the agency never succee…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 39:10
CIA trained
Tibet host_asserted
“finding people, taking them to Colorado in the middle of the night, taking them up on a mountain because Tibet's very mountainous, and training them to be terrorists, and then taking them back and inserting them into Tibet. So this is what …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 18:40
CIA trained
Tibet book_quoted
“until 55 and 56. But just because they used the word major operation doesn't mean they didn't already have stay-behind units there, because they did. With the assistance of a guy by the name of Thrandup, a brother of the Dalai Lama, who was…”
▶ Operation Gladio - State of the GOP and Tibet @ 31:13
Air America supplied_arms_to
Tibet book_quoted
“Recruits traveled to Calcutta by train, where the link was a contact address. Civil Air Transport planes flew to Taiwan for refueling. Sometimes they landed in Bangkok. Sometimes they landed in Hong Kong. They were all black CIA aircraft. I…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 45:13
Tibet relocated_to
Mustang book_quoted
“successful using their criteria, not ours, operation. So while the Indian intelligence picked up some of the remaining Tibetans for a special border activity later on in 61 and on into 62 because they're trained paramilitaries, so why not u…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 37:39
Tibet attacked
China book_quoted
“It was at about the same time that the soldiers of fortune achieved one of their greatest successes in the field. A small party sent to disrupt traffic in one of the areas for a mainland Chinese convoy was attacked. Among the corpses, they …”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 40:42
Tibet killed
China book_quoted
“It was at about the same time that the soldiers of fortune achieved one of their greatest successes in the field. A small party sent to disrupt traffic in one of the areas for a mainland Chinese convoy was attacked. Among the corpses, they …”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 40:42
People's Liberation Army carried_out_attack
Tibet book_quoted
“The Chinese Mao's forces was known to be approaching. Then in the summer of 1950 to Tibet itself, a belated effort to create an effective army with military aid from India never had the time to succeed. Now, keep in mind that we've already …”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 28:34
People's Liberation Army carried_out_attack
Tibet book_quoted
“with a chief of over 100,000 families who had been fighting for several years already. The PLA responded by sending large detachments to eastern Tibet. One force of three regiments met and was defeated by the United Rebels. The Chinese situ…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 32:47
George N. Patterson spied_on
Tibet host_asserted
“as did occur, were merely cosmetic, leaving the Dalai Lama virtually a prisoner in his monastery. So George Patterson's story is only one version of the origins of the CIA paramilitary operation in Tibet. Because as I mentioned, there are o…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 35:15
Gailo Thondrop spied_on
Tibet host_asserted
“Gailo Thondrop. Based in Darjingli, where Thondrop lived, the Tibetan network supposedly had had connections with the CIA since 51. The meetings at which Patterson interpreted may have represented the CIA's final decision to deal itself a h…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 35:49
People's Liberation Army carried_out_attack
Tibet documented
“The PLA helped resolve these qualms by bombing the monasteries. Ultimately, even the monks took sides. The Panshin Lama, Tibet's second most important religious leader, cast his lot with the Chinese. But most lamas took the rebel side. This…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 10:52
Nepal Volunteer Defense Army founded
Tibet documented
“I'm not going to try to pronounce the Chinese name for it, but it translates into National Volunteer Defense Army, NVDA. Its creation ushered in the most intense phase of the Tibetan War. Just a few weeks later, Frank Hollaber traveled to I…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 19:24
Dalai Lama member_of
Tibet documented
“opposition to the Han had yet to become universal. The fighters were still drawn mostly from Kam and Amdo. That's the areas of Tibet where they came from. Resistance in central Tibet was largely held in check by one man, the Dalai Lama. The…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 19:57
Dalai Lama removed_from_power
Tibet documented
“left disguised as a common soldier of the guard. In order to avoid attracting attention, the group carried nothing with them. Over subsequent days, between 8,000 and 13,000 citizens left the capital. On March 20th, General Tan ordered open …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 24:29
Tan Hoonsan ordered_assassination_of
Tibet documented
“left disguised as a common soldier of the guard. In order to avoid attracting attention, the group carried nothing with them. Over subsequent days, between 8,000 and 13,000 citizens left the capital. On March 20th, General Tan ordered open …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 24:29
Anthony Poshepny trained
Tibet documented
“He also had a staff of about a dozen who included several more veterans of the Indonesian adventure. So the guys that screwed up the Indonesian coup are training the people for the Tibetan rebellion. Tony Poe, soon to become notorious in La…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 43:51
Soviet Union supplied_arms_to
Tibet documented
“87,000 people died while we're supplying the guns and the training to the rebels. That year, the Tibetan year of the earth pig, the PLA tried once and for all to cut the trails into Tibet. The Chinese began a two and a half year pacificatio…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 49:02
Gampo Tashi member_of
Tibet documented
“Desmond Fitzgerald bore the brunt of Dulles' anger at what he fancied an unauthorized action by some agency cowboy. A few of the compas actually went to New Delhi, hoping to deliver a letter to Eisenhower. But all requests were rebuffed. Ei…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 50:03
John Kenneth Galbraith ordered_assassination_of
Tibet book_quoted
“Galbraith determined to stop some of the spooky activities that he didn't like, one of them being Tibet, whose partisan fighters he calls deeply unhygienic tribesmen. In other words, they were dirty. One of Galbraith's first orders in the c…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 35:40
CIA reorganized
Tibet book_quoted
“he could not get the Tibet operation completely canceled. The partisans had achieved the status of a U.S. ally and had to be supported. When the CIA did end its network inside of India, the operation was merely reorganized to work from Nepa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 37:09
India picked_up
Tibet book_quoted
“successful using their criteria, not ours, operation. So while the Indian intelligence picked up some of the remaining Tibetans for a special border activity later on in 61 and on into 62 because they're trained paramilitaries, so why not u…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 37:39
Ray Cline records
Tibet book_quoted
“that covered the period of January to August 1961. The political journal was actually translated and released to American scholars by the State Department in August of 1963. This windfall is the reason Ray Klein records that Tibet resulted …”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 41:42
CIA promised_liberation_to
Tibet book_quoted
“To achieve this effect, the CIA had promised liberation to the Tibetans who were caught up in their hopes and dreams, only to have tens of thousands of them murdered. Tibet was also an experience for the CIA paramilitary experts who had lea…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 45:06
CIA spied_on
Tibet host_asserted
“Gailo Thondrop. Based in Darjingli, where Thondrop lived, the Tibetan network supposedly had had connections with the CIA since 51. The meetings at which Patterson interpreted may have represented the CIA's final decision to deal itself a h…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 35:49
CIA carried_out_attack
Tibet host_asserted
“You're not going to really hear about what happened in Vietnam, and you're not going to hear about the real origins of Taiwan because they're all attacked by us against China, not the other way around. Developments in the rebellion suggest …”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 37:40
Nazi Party spied_on
Tibet guest_asserted
“And I want to did a little digging real quick and come to find out they actually did in 38 and 39, there was a expedition into Tibet. And its mission was to figure out whether or not these people were connected to the Aryan race. It was all…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 1:07:57
CIA carried_out_attack
Tibet book_quoted
“come across. So let me finish it up with this. This is more from a review of Convoy and Morrison's book. In the book's preface, Convoy and Morrison write that the story of the CIA's activity in Tibet had been told before, but they contend t…”
▶ Operation Gladio - State of the GOP and Tibet @ 35:03
John Turner carried_out_attack
Tibet book_quoted
“John Turner, the CIA's latest man in Calcutta, would have been the likely candidate. Turner had actually grown up in Darlington. He was quite familiar with the setup in that area. Patterson acted as a translator in several meetings over fou…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 29:04
Douglas MacIernan Jr. carried_out_attack
Tibet book_quoted
“Late in 1948, McInernan began a journey into Tibet, but perished at its border in April of 1950. Given the fall of the Nationalists, U.S. desire to resist the Communists, and Tibetan appeals for aid, there is some question whether the trek …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 22:59
Anthony Poshepny recruited
Tibet host_asserted
“He also was intimately involved in the Laotian opium set up. And they also, he was the guy that was the liaison for bringing all the Tibetans into Colorado as well. Definitely should look him up. A second reason was political to maintain co…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 52:58
Chiang Kai-shek trafficked
Tibet host_asserted
“Who was actually occupying Tibet? If China fought boxer wars there to implement the opium of India into China, well, who do we know that was the opium dealer in China? Oh my God, that was Chiang Kai-shek. Well, don't you know that Chiang Ka…”
▶ Operation Gladio - State of the GOP and Tibet @ 20:09
CIA trained
Tibet guest_asserted
“So what we did was we took Tibetans, we flew them into Colorado to an abandoned World War II base, taught them how to be terrorists, and then took them back out to…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 51:25
Frank Wisner ordered_assassination_of
Tibet book_quoted
“approval from the 5412 group still cannot be pinpointed. The outcome, however, can. Rebel leaders were told that the United States was considering a move in Tibet, but the decision depended upon what the CIA learned through their initial sc…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 39:36
Mentions (120)
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who administered Taiwan as a dictator for 40 years, as we already talked about. In addition to the Uyghurs, they used the Tibetans. They flew the Tibetans in the dead of night into Colorado and taught them terrorist tactics and then embedde…
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and other activity. Because I didn't know until I started doing this research that Taiwan wasn't just one island. It's seven. And the KMT was set up on all of those islands to launch after World War II and after they kicked Chiang Kai-shek …
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ambassadors was involved in the destabilization of Tibet. And again, until I did this research, I didn't know that we had an entire contingent of stay-behind units in Tibet. So what we did was we took Tibetans, we flew them into Colorado to…
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In 2022, Amnesty International reports they harassed Uyghur and Tibetan activists in both the EU and the US. And in 2019 and 20, the Hong Kong protests mobilized counter demonstrations in Australia and Canada, according to The Guardian. The…
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We had stay behind units all through Tibet. Everything that you've been told about the Dalai Lama and all that, it's all bullshit. Every bit of it. We use Tibet to agitate the hell out of China, just like we use Korea and we use Vietnam. We…
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map of the world. And if you look at the most of them, they'll have like this one I'm looking at right here says Russia Empire, Chinese Empire, and all of them have Tibet as part of China. Well, that's weird because we've been told repeated…
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That Tibet's its own country and China took it over. And, you know, bad on China because they're all communists. And that was called land aggression. And so what you find out is in many cases, like with Formosa, Formosa was always China. Ti…
▶ 5:28
Some outside entity, namely the UK and the US, decided that Tibet was no longer a part of the Chinese empire and they recognized it as a separate country. And therefore, you could say that the quote unquote communists were aggressive in tak…
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There was not Iraq. It was Mesopotamia. So all of these entities that came along after World War II were just made up bullshit. And they were done in order to create chaos. So I got to looking back over some of our notes on Tibet. So let me…
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Origins of the quote-unquote so-called Tibetan independence. For more than 700 years, the central government of China has continuously exercised sovereignty over Tibet, and Tibet had never been independent. Now, millions of files in both Ch…
▶ 9:33
I don't know how you say L-H-A-S-A. I'm just going to pronounce it Lhasa. No government of any country in the world has ever recognized Tibet as an independent state at that time. British Foreign Secretary Lord Lansdowne, who we've come acr…
▶ 10:03
a province of the Chinese empire. In his speech at Lok Sabha in 1954, Indian Prime Minister Nehru said, quote, over the past several hundred years, as far as I know, at no time has any foreign country denied China's sovereignty over Tibet, …
▶ 10:27
China forces, used to claim that between 1911 revolution and the founding of the PRC, the People's Republic of China, in 1949, Tibet became a country exercising full authority, which again is bullshit. Historical facts refute this. The simp…
▶ 10:57
possess any independent power over that period. So wait a minute. Wait a minute. The Dalai Lama's appointment has to get the People's Republic of China's permission, but they're somehow independent. And by the way, that had been the case fo…
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propagated is nothing but a fiction by the imperialists who committed aggression against China in modern history. How have imperialists instigated Tibetan independence? There is no such word as independence in the Tibetan vocabulary at the …
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From an independent sovereign country to a semi-colonial country, imperialist forces took advantage of a weak Dwing dynasty and began plotting to carve up China, including Tibet. In order to bring Tibet into the sphere of influence, British…
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I did not realize that the Boxer Wars was physically in Tibet. I've read all about them, and they refer to areas, and it's just like that other book where I was telling you they used one name for Chiang Kai-shek as opposed to the name we al…
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That's what they're doing. And they're using our grandkids tax money to do exactly that, which could piss off every single person alive. Especially when you can go back and find these documents that says everything that they're doing is a l…
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Who was actually occupying Tibet? If China fought boxer wars there to implement the opium of India into China, well, who do we know that was the opium dealer in China? Oh my God, that was Chiang Kai-shek. Well, don't you know that Chiang Ka…
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knowing all of that, that the CIA was in here. Because where else would have Paul Helliwell been when he was hanging around with Shane Kyshek to come up with the whole, how do we pay for Operation Gladio drug trafficking schematic? Oh, so a…
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talks about the fact that not only did the CIA train political activists, propaganda tools, and paramilitary people to conduct operations inside of Tibet. Now, I also have to say this. The first documentation of this was as early as 1950, b…
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the invasion into Korea too. And look at how that all matches up. Look at where Korea is. Look at where Tibet is and the Tibet area of China, not a country. And see if that doesn't start to make a little bit more sense. So it was discovered…
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This is what the CIA wrote. Summary. The CIA Tibetan activity consists of political action, propaganda, and paramilitary activity. The purpose of the program at this stage is to keep the, at this stage, which means it was not the beginning,…
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and among foreign nations, principally India, to build a capability for resistance against possible political developments inside of China. Problem, to explain agency expenditures in support of the Tibetan program, because we have one littl…
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approved the continuation of CIA-controlled Tibetan operations. Previous operations had gone to support isolating Tibetan resistant groups within the Tibet and to the creation of a paramilitary force in Nepal-Tibet border. So they're actual…
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into the United States to give them terrorist training, just like we did in Miami. We did the exact same thing in Colorado. Continuing the support subsidy to the Dalai Lama's entourage, who by that time had moved to India, continuing suppor…
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Operational plans call for the establishment of approximately 20 single resident agents in Tibet. And there's a bunch of redacted stuff, so I'm just kind of reading through it. Two road watch teams in Tibet to report possible Chinese commun…
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blacked out. The blacked out will stay in direct contact and will conduct political correspondence with refugee groups, again, using migrant refugees as political operatives slash terrorists to import back into these countries. It also says…
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consciousness among these refugees in other words just like they did with the ukrainians that went into germany they then used them to turn them into quote-unquote nationalist and carry this bullshit nationalist narrative they are propagand…
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how Tibet has always been a country. And we're refugees from the country of Tibet, just like they did with Ukraine. It's all bullshit. The blank was established in October 19... I can't tell if that's 63 or 83. And the communication center …
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Nepal was used as a launching pad both when we were training terrorists to input into Tibet and stay behind units and when we were involved with the Uyghurs to train them as terrorists to insert into the province that borders Nepal. So the …
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may refer to the flights of American reconnaissance aircraft that is corroborated by the revelation in the Pentagon Papers that civil air transport, along with the CIA and the Taiwanese KMT, was active in supporting the Tibetan operations o…
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that did exactly what they did in Ukraine. They first established a fact that's not true, that Tibet was an independent country, and that's basically exactly what you saw play out in Ukraine, when in fact Ukraine had been part of the Russia…
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finding people, taking them to Colorado in the middle of the night, taking them up on a mountain because Tibet's very mountainous, and training them to be terrorists, and then taking them back and inserting them into Tibet. So this is what …
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foreign involvement reemphasized the central coordinating role of U.S. intelligence, especially paramilitary factions of the CIA, and that they used these front companies like Civil Air Transport and Air America, that the Civil Air Transpor…
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They also flew over 200 flights into mainland China and Tibet, which was to do what? Oh, that's when they were taking the Tibetans and training them on how to be gladio terrorists so they could create stay behinds in the Tibetan area to att…
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to use the KMT troops and raids to be a thorn in attacking mainland China, which we did repeatedly, especially during the operations in Tibet, they had to have a reason to have those planes over there. One of the CIA agents involved in that…
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During this 40-year time frame, we also ran an operation with Tibet. We went into Tibet and we pulled out a whole bunch of people, brought them to the mountains of Colorado and trained them all to be mercenaries too, to be assassins. And th…
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And then once they got done with that operation and that got exposed and it did. Was that the 1989 Tevesha massacre? Was that or is that just part of that? OK, OK. All right. And then we moved on to the Uyghurs. We used the Muslims over in …
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I'm not endorsing Mao. I'm just saying that the CIA and the United States has a deserved, horrible reputation within the government of China because they knew the entire time that we were backstopping Chiang Kai-shek, who was launching all …
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Its planes and pilots were occupied with CIA support missions and insurgency missions in Indochina, Burma, and Tibet. And that is true. And this is where we get to the Tibet. Remember, we talked about them where they were building stay-behi…
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Black and white compared to what it is. I mean, we're looking more like how the tenements looked back then, if that makes any sense. So and that's a very interesting point, because China, as we demonstrated last night, was under constant at…
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It was in Tibet that they took the monks and everyday Tibetans and trained them how to be terrorists. There is nothing sacred to these people. Those are the people that they flew into Colorado and to that abandoned World War II base and tra…
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how to torture them and turn in other people, and then flew them back out of Colorado back into Tibet to launch operations against the Chinese. So, yeah, there's nothing off limits for these people. Miles, go ahead. A little piece of trivia…
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Sofini, P-O-S-H-E-P-N-Y, landed with one of the teams and had already seen fierce action in Tibet earlier and found the Indonesia fight quite tame, which is interesting because, remember, they trained the Tibetan stay-behind units in Colora…
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He had been transferred up from the Cambodian border where he had been working with anti-government rebels in the country, in Cambodia. He also had been in the CIA training Camp Perry class of 1953. He had been one of the paramilitary offic…
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Chiang Kai-shek has taken not just Formosa and turned it into Taiwan, but they occupy almost all of the islands off the coast of China. They had forces in Burma at this time, and they would eventually insert forces through this covert opera…
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to insert Chiang Kai-shek back into China, primarily for the opium, but they sold it to defeat communism. The American who came in 1955 may have been a diplomat, but he was most assuredly a spy. He is not further identified by the man who t…
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missionary who had worked in eastern Tibet, spoke the language, wrote several books about the country, and resided in Kalimpong. Patterson was one of a small group of Westerners who knew anything about Tibet. He was well known in the Tibeta…
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Tibet was another of those situations in which secret warriors were able to use the local resistance movement to America's advantage. The resistance sprang up as Mao attempted to consolidate his rule. Traditionally conservative, the Tibetan…
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Although Tibet had served for several centuries as a Chinese vassal state, the reins had always been loose since the fall of the Manchu dynasty in 1911. This had permitted the emergence of warlords in China, local chiefs with powers similar…
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To some degree, Tibetans were able to play the powers against each other in an effort to preserve as much of their independence as possible. The tragedy for Tibetans' independence lay in the relative strength of the Chinese communists and n…
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Mao's movement was unified and also more determined to impose central control. The new Mandarins had a program, tremendous energy, and the People's Liberation Army. There were ultimately no way the lowlanders could have kept out Mao's force…
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was a land of monasteries, over 3,000 of them, nomads, small towns, and ruled by a hierarchy of monks. The Dalai Lama was nothing less than the godhead, the incarnation of Buddha, chosen as a child by wise monks after tests. Signs in the ar…
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The Chinese Mao's forces was known to be approaching. Then in the summer of 1950 to Tibet itself, a belated effort to create an effective army with military aid from India never had the time to succeed. Now, keep in mind that we've already …
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Mao had stated several times that he was not interested in discontinuing the Tibetan autonomy, but the West wants to use Tibet as a wedge into China, just like they used Korea and just like they used Vietnam.…
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There was friction developing and there were Western people camping out ready to take advantage of the friction. So one of the difficulties for everyone in that area is the lack of communication. There were no railroads, roads, airstrips, a…
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So obviously, militarily, one of the ways that you control people is by controlling food and stuff like that. But there's no centralization at all in Tibet at the time. So there's not a lot of military advantage or control when you have an …
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Because you have less people you have to control in order to control everybody else. They don't want you to be independent. So in 1953, Chinese road surveyors began to talk reform with the Tibetan governor. And he basically ended up resigni…
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had already began sowing seeds of discontent among the Tibetans. The following year, when the Chinese began to establish cooperative farms in the area, fighting began with the locals. Early in 1955, the Chinese arrested a Lobsang Tsang Wong…
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maneuvers from the communists. It sparked several uprisings and demonstrations. When a unit of 200 PLA troops arrived to restore order in the mountainous area, the tribesmen captured and disarmed them, cut off their noses, then sent them ba…
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with a chief of over 100,000 families who had been fighting for several years already. The PLA responded by sending large detachments to eastern Tibet. One force of three regiments met and was defeated by the United Rebels. The Chinese situ…
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on traders. It was said that one of the monasteries with 5,000 monks and 113 satellite monasteries literally thrived on such trade and smuggling. Fearing the worst, the PLA garrison had tried to disarm the populace but were themselves overw…
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people rose up against the lowland Chinese. Partisans managed to block the road at three different points. So at least two of the provinces, the Chinese attempted to split off from Tibet by incorporating them into their neighboring Chinese …
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cooperating by creating a commission to oversee the integration of them into China. So it happened in 1956 with a special occasion of Buddhism. The 2,500th year since the birth of Buddha marked a celebration in India. The Dalai Lama natural…
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bringing with him 500 persons in his immediate party, along with 150 monks. Once in India, the Tibetan leader asked Nehru for political asylum. Nehru informed the Chinese of this development, and the communist foreign minister, Chow Enlai, …
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as did occur, were merely cosmetic, leaving the Dalai Lama virtually a prisoner in his monastery. So George Patterson's story is only one version of the origins of the CIA paramilitary operation in Tibet. Because as I mentioned, there are o…
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Gailo Thondrop. Based in Darjingli, where Thondrop lived, the Tibetan network supposedly had had connections with the CIA since 51. The meetings at which Patterson interpreted may have represented the CIA's final decision to deal itself a h…
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to know all of the details, the appropriate records remain classified. Why would that be? It's not for the courts. In fact, the entire discussion of Tibet in a book called The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence would have been deleted by the …
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the Air Force colonel who worked with General Erstein's Office of Special Operations. He was the Joint Chiefs of Staff in that trio of people that you work with that we were just talking about. This reluctance to discuss Tibet is undoubtedl…
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indelicate to draw attention to the explicit paramilitary effort to stir up trouble for that very nation. Refusal to open the records on Tibet is ironic. Given the many failures that pepper the CIA's paramilitary, you would think that that …
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Simultaneous attacks occurred at several points in eastern Tibet, so widely separated that coordination seems clearly to have been necessary given the terrain. More pointedly, in a revealing cultural change, beginning in 1956, clothing made…
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We start off with where we left off with the CIA basically aiding, training the Tibetan people to fight against China. And there was a National Volunteer Defense Army, referred to as NVDA, that provided a good chunk of the resistance.…
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to the Han army. And the NVDA fighters were mostly drawn from two areas, one called Kham, K-H-A-M, and the other one Amdo, A-M-D-O. So this was basically the, they're going to be used to…
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Focus on an area in central Tibet that was under the control of the Dalai Lama, even though at this point the Dalai Lama was kind of hanging out in India. So obviously he's an important symbol. And I don't know if you guys know the story. T…
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The NVDA leadership knew that the Dalai Lama had to be enlisted if there was to be an effective national resistance. And by early 1959, many of the Lamas also believed that Tenzin Gyatso was a virtual prisoner in mainland China. Many Tibeta…
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and the partisans began to make direct attacks against mainland China's forces. By December, mainland China post within 25 miles of Lhasa were raided by the NVDA. In late January and February of 1959, mainland China's garrisons that was onl…
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He got surrounded on March 10, 1959, by a crowd of 30,000 who demonstrated against the Chinese and shouted that their religious leader must be protected. One Chinese collaborator who appeared in the street was stoned to death. Tension mount…
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Did anybody know that we were experimenting on communist China? I didn't. In fact, Washington had anticipated only limited potential in the Tibetan rebellion, as indeed from any operation against the mainland China. This was made clear in a…
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of Far East by the name of J. Graham Parsons. Regarding Tibet, the survey predicted that, and this is a quote, if the Tibetans are able to maintain their resistance movement in the face of large-scale Chinese communist suppression efforts, …
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except in the most isolated areas and of containing it, unquote. So that's what this is. This is a constant like death by a thousand cuts of them going around the border of China, looking for a way in for them to reinsert Chiang Kai-shek ba…
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From Alan Dulles, while the president's staff secretary reported from the CIA and State Department intelligence report that, quote, the Tibetan uprisings apparently have resulted in a considerable loss of prestige for the communist China in…
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In July 58, the Chinese had also protested in a diplomatic note to New Delhi that Kuala Lumpur was a center of the resistance. But by then, Nehru had chosen sides and the Chinese charges were rejected. In the Indian parliament, debates igni…
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The Home Ministry or the External Affairs Ministry are not at all worried about the situation. Another member asked, they allow the spies to conduct espionage? And the Prime Minister said, absolutely, yes. In another debate, the Prime Minis…
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journal newspaper reported in its issue that was distributed on March 2nd before anything had happened there that there would be a coup and that the Dalai Lama would flee. So let me just state that again. In a newspaper in India, a full wee…
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There may have been other CIA agents in the party as well. Although the agency's quote-unquote denied areas specialist, Stephen Meade, a paramilitary expert, Anthony Pasfini, have been credited with entering Tibet to bring out many of the r…
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and had been conceived ahead of time. On March 1st, just as the Dalai Lama's party was entering India, Eisenhower in Washington was told, we have informed embassy in New Delhi that we think the U.S. should take no action with respect to the…
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A message from the Tibetans received on April 2nd confirmed success and contained an important plea. You must help us as soon as possible and send us weapons for 30,000 men by airplane. That was their request. It is likely that that message…
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twice in April and again in June of 59. The 13-page classified CIA report, a letter from Allen Dulles to the president, a cable reporting the Dalai Lama's views were sent and reviewed in front of the National Security Council meeting on Apr…
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by mainland China, Field General Gampo Tashi issued orders for the resistance to abandon its headquarters, which it had defended to permit the escape of the Dalai Lama. Tibetan sources maintain that Eisenhower's administration made an impor…
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which, of course, we've talked about because it was done in Colorado. Five groups, totally more than 500 men, were to be given instructions and then sent back to their native regions. And because it was so mountainous there and cold, the on…
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That was the excuse used to basically reopen the base. The telephone and utility companies were asked to give a day's notice before sending any linemen or service poles onto the base. Finally, the military guards and recruits themselves wer…
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had not been discussed since 1950, which is kind of interesting because if you go back in old maps, which I always do, when we were looking at this, when we first found out about the secret CIA base in Colorado, the old maps that we found h…
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In many of the old maps, it just was an autonomous area of mainland China. Okay, so Ireland offered a resolution that condemned the Chinese for genocide. Let that sit there for just a second. They're accusing mainland China of genocide whil…
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Because the Chinese was trying to work with Tibet. And again, Mao's a bad guy. But I do think it's interesting how all of this stuff gets perceived. Because obviously you have to enter a resolution in the UN to verify the condemnation of th…
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the training for the terrorists inside of Tibet. Despite its support for the Tibet against the Chinese, the U.S. did not want to draw any attention to itself in that area. They did not want to have a debate in the UN on the subject. Secreta…
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to a British diplomat that all we wanted to do was to have this thing come in as a mild resolution. American interests, nothing like genocide or anything, just a mild one. American interests were not identical to those of the Tibetans. Brit…
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appealing for U.S. help. Eisenhower ended the debate asserting that Hungary was inaccessible to us as Tibet. But Tibet didn't prove to be too inaccessible, did it? Because we went in there and put stay behind units in it. We even extracted …
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And joining with us, we're going to finish up the archipelago. We only have a couple pages left. And then move on to the war for the roof of the world. It's very, very interesting. Not stuff because we're going to get into more into the Tib…
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not the answer to any of it. Because again, the CIA did whatever they wanted to. Chapter 10, Desmond Fitzgerald. Enthusiasm became vital to the next big campaign. Not only did this one involve many of the same secret warriors again and agai…
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This routinized the special arrangements previously required for the Far East to carry out activities in the Near East. Jim Critchfield did not mind having some of the people act primarily in support of the Far East, and Desmond Fitzgerald …
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or basically a Chinese vassal state. Through the first half of the 20th century, Tibet preserved its status as quasi-independent, largely due to the inaccessibility. The communist takeover in China included new efforts to be in charge. In t…
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In fact, the agency's first death in the line of duty, a combat death, if you will, was of Douglas MacIernan, M-A-C-K-I-E-R-N-A-N, Jr., an officer under State Department cover who had operated equipment to detect Soviet atomic tests in the …
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Late in 1948, McInernan began a journey into Tibet, but perished at its border in April of 1950. Given the fall of the Nationalists, U.S. desire to resist the Communists, and Tibetan appeals for aid, there is some question whether the trek …
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He never reached the capital. The companion who survived, Frank Bezak, B-E-S-S-A-K, though apparently an agent contract officer, had no knowledge of their actual mission. Bezak eventually reached Calcutta, where the CIA base chief, Frederic…
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they had with the Dalai Lama. Signs in the capital were ominous. A sacred object, a gilded wooden dragon, began to drip water from its mouth. The People's Liberation Army approached the area in the summer of 1950 and then eventually to Tibe…
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never had time to succeed. In August, the PLA 18th Army defeated a tiny Tibetan force that was futile in nature. A handful of ancient guns, the Dalai Lama's personal guard, and armed monks and farmers fled. Dalai Lama then agreed to Chinese…
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The first question for the Americans was how to learn anything at all about that mountain land. India provided some information at first, but the advent of John Foster Dulles, the Indians became less and less cooperative. They didn't like h…
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It's a dot on a map within a triangle formed by the junction of the borders of Nepal, Shishkim, and Bhutan. It's basically unknown to outsiders. Tourists coming to see the mountains visit the Nepal capital. If they venture anywhere near tha…
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Darlene Jing, typically those who do reach the area are more interested in Tibet, for the village is a main point on the trail to the capital. After the Chinese takeover of Tibet, the CIA's interest was rather more direct. As early as 1951,…
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In 1953, Chinese road surveyors in the province of Kam, K-H-A-M, on the eastern Tibetan plateau began talking of reform. The Tibetan governor, I'm not even going to try to say his name, could find no support in the capital of Tibet. The Dal…
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A year later, when the Chinese began establishing cooperative farms, fighting began in Quampa. Fierce and skillful horsemen who became very effective partisans. In the spring of 55, pretending to be a tourist, an American came into the area…
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U.S. agency, the village had become a focus of dispute between India and China. Beijing complained that the area served as a base for resistance to communist rule in Tibet. Indian Prime Minister Nehru told his parliament as early as Septemb…
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Agents came from every country, said the prime minister. Sometimes I begin to doubt whether the greater part of the population in that city are not all foreign spies. The American of 1955 could have been a diplomat or a spy. He was not furt…
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spoke the language, and wrote several books about the country. He resided in that area. One of the small groups of Westerners who knew anything about Tibet, Patterson was enchanted with the country and was well known in Tibetan political ci…
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John Turner, the CIA's latest man in Calcutta, would have been the likely candidate. Turner had actually grown up in Darlington. He was quite familiar with the setup in that area. Patterson acted as a translator in several meetings over fou…
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The preceding year, an Indian intelligence officer had appeared asking for contacts and wanting a translator to talk about anti-Chinese resistance. One of the Tibetan moderate politicians had outlined his difficulties for Indian officials m…
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stressed problems of supplying equipment over the Himalayans and said Indian cooperation would be essential. According to Patterson, the American went on to draw up a 10-year assistance program designed to overthrow the Chinese in Tibet. Th…
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One more situation where the secret warriors used local resistant movements to American advantage. This time, there would be no question of the U.S. supporting democracy. Tibet had always been a feudal theocracy for centuries. Tibet was qui…
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Traditionally conservative, the Tibetans were both politically and culturally distinct from the Han Chinese, of whom communists were merely the latest political shading. The tragedy for Tibetans' independence lay in the relative strength of…