Project Cirrus operation

“Chiang Kai-shek, you said this was, if I understood correctly, he was kept out of this altogether? He wasn't aware of what was really going on? He was not aware of the Tibet operation because he coveted Tibet. So the CIA is doing this under…”

“First time that they actually attempted to modify the hurricane, it was done in conjunction with the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force, which would have been the research lab at Wright-Patt, and the U.S. Army Signal Corps. And the Sig…”

“First time that they actually attempted to modify the hurricane, it was done in conjunction with the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force, which would have been the research lab at Wright-Patt, and the U.S. Army Signal Corps. And the Sig…”

“First time that they actually attempted to modify the hurricane, it was done in conjunction with the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force, which would have been the research lab at Wright-Patt, and the U.S. Army Signal Corps. And the Sig…”

“and Desmond Fitzgerald. Director Dulles described recent supply deliveries but also Chinese success in finding the better arms and finding the better armed and less mobile rebels, meaning they were losing. Dulles asked Eisenhower to approve…”

“Desmond Fitzgerald countered that no brutality could be greater than that which the Hans were doing. Secretary of State Harder added that the project certainly was embarrassing Beijing. Eisenhower approved more weapons. Beijing pushed back.…”

“to all intrusions into communist airspace. That included the C-130s that were flying over China to drop air supplies into Tibet. And that's where we will stop. The Tibetan thing always was one of the big shockers for me. Is this, I'm sorry,…”

“quickly dubbed Project ST Circus, came all most strongly from John Foster Dulles. Again, it, of course, was seconded by his brother. Also involved was Herbert Hoover Jr., who was the undersecretary for Dulles at the State Department. Halber…”

“He found Kennedy subdued and too busy with the CIA failure in Cuba. He argued with the president, Bobby Kennedy, and McGeorge Bundy and put his objections to Dulles and Bissell, telling them Kennedy had been sympathetic to ending the projec…”

“Renewed contacts with the Americans and selected Tibetans for CIA training outside their country. The Tibetans joined up in February of 1957. Headquarters' emphasis on Tibet shifted slightly when John Hart took over the Far East Division. B…”

“Renewed contacts with the Americans and selected Tibetans for CIA training outside their country. The Tibetans joined up in February of 1957. Headquarters' emphasis on Tibet shifted slightly when John Hart took over the Far East Division. B…”

“a key operative in Taiwan during the projects of Shanghai Sheks against mainland China. So they have an entire force arrayed around China attacking them, harassing them, and they just move musical chairs around. The first cost estimate came…”

“other China operations because Chiang Kai-shek also coveted Tibet. Thus, though the CIA had well-trained nationalist air crews, it could not touch them to use in Tibet because then Chiang Kai-shek would know what they were doing. When a fre…”

“The Tibetan project went forward under the direct control of the CIA station in India. So they don't want to cross-pollinate this because they want containment of focused efforts into China. So that's crazy. We're going to stop there tonigh…”

“harassment of the Chinese communists. They really weren't interested in Tibet independence. They were very interested in harassing the Chinese. Thomas Parrott, who worked directly for the 5412 group as its CIA provided staff officer, adds t…”

“So having said that, so I do find it interesting that when you start digging in, which I didn't have prepared because we weren't going to be talking about weather modification for the show earlier, that at the heart of a lot of the experime…”