Dalai Lama person
also: Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, Tenzin Gyatsu, religious leader, the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan leader, 14th Dalai Lama, the religious leader
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Claims (24)
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
Dalai Lama member_of
India documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 18:08
CIA funded
Dalai Lama documented
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio - State of the GOP and Tibet @ 25:31
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
American Society for a Free Asia funded
Dalai Lama 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
People's Liberation Army targeted_for_regime_change
Dalai Lama documented
“For the first time, the NDVA had a presence close to the capital. The Chinese sought to make the Dalai Lama a hostage. They invited the Tibetan leader to a dramatic presentation at a compound of the PLA military area command. They also had …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 22:25
Dalai Lama targeted_for_regime_change
China documented
“offered a resolution condemning China for genocide. What? We're going to condemn China for genocide for fighting against a CIA-backed insurgent? Despite the secret paramilitary support for the Tibetans, the U.S. wished to stay in the backgr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 46:01
United States removed_from_power
Dalai Lama documented
“Don't say anything. Meeting with the Dalai Lama in India, diplomat Winthrop Brown, as much as told him that Washington preferred he not bring up the issue at the UN debate, but rather concentrate on accusing China of human rights violations…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 46:35
Dalai Lama installed
China 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
Thubten Norbu member_of
Dalai Lama book_quoted
“sponsored a U.S. lecture tour by a man, Thubten Norbu. He was an associate of the Dalai Lama's elder brother. Norbu made more visits over the next few years to speak about a rebellion. That February, simultaneous attacks occurred in several…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 41:01
John Hart carried_out_attack
Dalai Lama documented
“He was actually the guy in charge of the task force that moved the Dalai Lama into India. Hart had headed CIA stations in Thailand in the early 50s, which means he was setting up the drug operation, and in Morocco later, where all kinds of …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 7:42
CIA funded
Dalai Lama host_asserted
“And so, you know, I was talking to him about my research about the Tibetans and, you know, the Dalai Lama being on the CIA payroll and having CIA agents on his security detail and the Tibetans being trained in these terrorist training camps…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 3 @ 1:02:32
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 funded
Dalai Lama documented
“The agency also began monthly subsidies to the Dalai Lama, totaling $1.7 million a year. That continued for many, many years. Just before the 1960 election, CIA General Cabell updated the special group on Tibet, adding comments about Cuba.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 6:30
Dalai Lama member_of
Indiana book_quoted
“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, …”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 34:46
Zhou Enlai spied_on
Dalai Lama book_quoted
“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, …”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 34:46
Gailo Thondrop member_of
Dalai Lama 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
CIA exposed
Dalai Lama documented
“In the course of the discussion, revealing that the CIA had known of his progress from its communicators and had forwarded his request for asylum to India. The CIA director also avered that the agency remained in close contact with the Dala…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 36:14
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
CIA supplied_arms_to
Dalai Lama documented
“um movement on march 23rd dallas informed eisenhower that the dalai lama had left the capital on the 17th and the cia compared his travel route to its appreciation of the centers of rebel armed strength meaning he was basically just carried…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 31:02
Ma Bufang ordered_assassination_of
Dalai Lama host_asserted
“CIA, even before Tibet, had been funding Muslims to attack China, too. And this Ma Fu Feng guy is the Chinese Muslim that the CIA had been working with and training them to be terrorists as well to attack China, too. So this particular guy …”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 5:07
Ma Bufang ordered_assassination_of
Dalai Lama host_asserted
“that the new Dalai Lama in 1939 had to be ransomed from the Chinese Muslim warlord called Ma Pufang. I'm going to spell that M-A, separate word, P-U-F-A-N-G. That was the same man who had been the intended recipient of aid in one of the CIA…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 4:05
George N. Patterson recruited
Dalai Lama book_quoted
“The previous year, an Indian intelligence official had also appeared asking Patterson if he could contact prominent Tibetans willing to discuss resistance in China. It was exactly for such contact that the American came. Patterson acted as …”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 25:07
Mentions (83)
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Flipping them, the CIA is noted for their use of women to get to men. My great aunt, my great uncle, I live with here. I'm taking care of him. He's a veteran. He was 82nd Airborne. My great aunt was CIA. She is the one responsible for getti…
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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…
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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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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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The Tibet houses are intended to serve as unofficial representation for Dalai Lama to maintain the concept of a separate Tibetan political identity. It's all manufactured. The Tibet house in New York City will work closely with the Tibetan …
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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…
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in assessing the strength of the rebellion and preparing for the creation of a resistance network. So let me just say this. There was no resistance network. The Dalai Lama, if you actually read about the history of Tibet, when Mao took over…
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The Dalai Lama was all hunky-dory with creating an agreement with Mao in which Mao said that all of the, I'm going to call it for a state, all of the state of Tibet was allowed to maintain its religion. It was allowed to maintain all of its…
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was not going to interfere with anything within the state of Tibet. All they had to do was come to Beijing and, quote unquote, they used the word negotiate. But they had already said that they were willing to do all of that. Just leave it l…
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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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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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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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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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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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The first airdrop in 1956, south of Bhutan, on a drop zone lit by flares carried out by a plane that flew over Burma in order to reach Tibet. In addition, in 1956, the American Society for Free Asia, which basically is the CIA front, the os…
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By 1957, it was estimated that 80,000 Tibetans were fighting with the main partisan group with another 10,000 bandits. One of Chow Enlai's promise to the Dalai Lama in India had been Chinese withdrawal from Tibet. Some party cadres were pul…
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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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storyline, but basically he was discovered at two and a half years old in his village by supposedly the people that search out who's going to be the next Dalai Lama. And this was like in 1939, it said.…
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that the new Dalai Lama in 1939 had to be ransomed from the Chinese Muslim warlord called Ma Pufang. I'm going to spell that M-A, separate word, P-U-F-A-N-G. That was the same man who had been the intended recipient of aid in one of the CIA…
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CIA, even before Tibet, had been funding Muslims to attack China, too. And this Ma Fu Feng guy is the Chinese Muslim that the CIA had been working with and training them to be terrorists as well to attack China, too. So this particular guy …
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In 1939. You just can't make this shit up. In the developing struggle, a guy by the name of Tenzin Gyatso was one of the Lamas who tried not to take sides. He worked with the Chinese to the extent that was necessary, but at least three time…
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And on the other hand, the Dalai Lama had denounced the resistance and advised Tibetans not to become involved. He wanted them to remain neutral, not to be CIA assets and not to attack Mao either. So he also had allowed the dismissal of his…
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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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was overran by the CIA-trained Tibetans. For the first time, there was an NVDA presence very close to the capital. The Chinese eventually thought that they could take the Dalai Lama hostage. The Tibetan leader was invited to what was billed…
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a General Tan Hoonsan. Senior Tibetan advisors to the Dalai Lama, some of whom had secretly supported the NVDA, interpreted this as a bid to capture the Dalai Lama. They urged him not to go. The Dalai Lama did not attend, but where he was s…
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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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It would later be written that by one particular observer, quote, I felt as if I was standing between two volcanoes, each likely to erupt at any minute, unquote. On March 15th, some PLA troops appeared outside the Dalai Lama's house and his…
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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…
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a guy by the name of Tenzin Gyatsu, was disguised as a common soldier. The group carried nothing with them in order to avoid attracting attention. In the subsequent days, between 8,000 and 13,000 citizens left the area, including 500 of the…
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when the mainland Chinese General Tan ordered open hostilities. Only then did the Chinese command realize the Dalai Lama was gone. French explorer by the name of Mikel Piesel described these events as one of the strangest and ill-conceived …
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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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and Desmond Fitzgerald, the Far East Division chief, were almost daily on the phone with Gordon Gray during this period. The CIA was so well-informed because it had furnished an American radio operator who traveled with the Dalai Lama, the …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Chosen as a child by wise monks after tests and signs and mediation, the Dalai Lama sat at the top. In a land, the policy followed him. Communist rule proved retching to the Tibetans. Friction between the Chinese Communist Party and the Tib…
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is ironic given the many failures that peppered the CIA paramilitary record there. Despite their hesitancy, a fair description of the dimensions of the Tibet operation is possible. In 1956, the American Society for a Free Asia, the ostensib…
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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 …
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Tough and strong, but an odd mixture of warrior and mystic. The Dalai Lama's brother, Norbus, attended part of the training and impressed the agencies. Harry Mustakuku and his concerns for the lives of... They were concerned about ants in t…
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It was estimated in 1957 that the main Tibetan force with 80,000 partisans with another 10,000 bandits and local tribesmen were arrayed against the Chinese. One of Chow Enlai's promises to the Dalai Lama had been withdrawn. A few party cadr…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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embodied the spirit and wisdom of his people. According to tradition, the Dalai Lama, as well as his colleagues, the Paschen Lama, are incarnations of the former, I don't know what that word is, but the reincarnations, they just kind of pas…
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not to take sides. He worked with the Chinese to the extent necessary, but several times refused to call out the Tibetan army to help the PLA. On the other hand, the Dalai Lama denounced resistance, advising Tibetans not to get involved. Gy…
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The NVDA leadership knew the Dalai Lama must be enlisted for an effective national resistance. And by early 1959, many of the clerics or heads of their local Buddhist movement said that he was a virtual prisoner. Tibetans wanted to save the…
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Late in 1958, the NDBA began an offensive into central Tibet. The partisans attacked Han garrisons. By December, the PLA post, they were attacking within 25 miles of Lhasa. In late January or early February 59, the PLA garrison at Tung Seng…
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For the first time, the NDVA had a presence close to the capital. The Chinese sought to make the Dalai Lama a hostage. They invited the Tibetan leader to a dramatic presentation at a compound of the PLA military area command. They also had …
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And this was interpreted as a device to capture the Dalai Lama. So they urged him not to go. The Dalai Lama made excuses not to go to the Chinese compound. Then a crowd surrounded the palace where he had been hiding out. On March 10th of 19…
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in the streets died, stoned to death. Over the following days, tension began to mount. There were mass demonstrations. The PLA's garrison of perhaps 40,000 troops strengthened its fortifications around the city. One later wrote, quote, I fe…
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On March 15th, Chinese troops appeared outside the Dalai Lama's palace. His guards had been kept from shooting. On the 17th, as the Tibetan leader met with his cabinet, two mortar shells exploded nearby. That fateful Tuesday, the Dalai Lama…
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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 …
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The French explorer and scholar Michael Piasel describes these events as one of the strangest and most ill-understood coups of recent times. Under its top leader, General Tashi Antrasong, the NVDA's offensive drove within miles of the capit…
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Alan Dulles to President Eisenhower dated January 22nd and March 3rd of 1959 concerned Tibet. The president's staff secretary reported that the CIA and State Department intelligence reports, quote, the Tibetan uprisings apparently have resu…
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had turned aside the Dalai Lama's request for political asylum three years earlier. In July of 58, the Chinese again made issue with the Indians over this resistance that was going on inside of China. But by then, Nehru too had chosen sides…
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The parliamentary debates ignited by the Dalai Lama's journey, the prime minister went out of his way to defend Tibetans, denying the village was a command center for the NVDA, which he knew was not true. One exchange in a debate on April 2…
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um movement on march 23rd dallas informed eisenhower that the dalai lama had left the capital on the 17th and the cia compared his travel route to its appreciation of the centers of rebel armed strength meaning he was basically just carried…
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with the agency's RS-1 radio to the Dalai Lama's party so they could coordinate his travel. More precisely, when Agent Arthur Norbu learned the Dalai Lama was on the move, he left the rebel headquarters with a small guarded force joining th…
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This enabled the party to communicate to the nearby resistant efforts. CIA officer John Noss maintains that Tibetan agents were in communication with CIA headquarters and provided daily reports to the CIA beginning March 25th. Branch chief …
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to the people in the field. The Dalai Lama wrinkled his nose at the heavily armed tribesmen surrounding him. Armaments were a distasteful necessity. He especially frowned at one of the guerrilla, his own cook, who carried a bazooka and enth…
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at what he was told was a Chinese military position. As the party neared India, the CIA radio operators passed on the Dalai Lama's request for asylum. The message reached Washington in the dead of night on a Saturday. Fitzgerald immediately…
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whose material the CIA later assembled into a motion picture. So we have embedded in the Dalai Lama's prearranged exodus from Tibet, Hollywood, of course. There were footages of airdrops from C-130s included in it. The movie became a well-c…
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On April 1st, just as the Dalai Lama's party entered India, Eisenhower in Washington learned, quote, We have informed Embassy New Delhi we think the U.S. should take no action with respect to the Tibetan refugees, which would diminish the e…
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Quote, you must help us as soon as possible and send us weapons for 30,000 men by airplane, unquote. The message sparked action in Washington. The National Security Council, which had not discussed Tibet since June 20th, 1957, you know, we'…
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The agency also began monthly subsidies to the Dalai Lama, totaling $1.7 million a year. That continued for many, many years. Just before the 1960 election, CIA General Cabell updated the special group on Tibet, adding comments about Cuba.…
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to continue giving the Tibet issue a high international profile, but with a reduced emphasis on military activity. Payments to the Dalai Lama continued. While for the most part, the resistance received CIA cash, a final weapons airdrop took…
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Once these things start, they take a life of their own on, and they don't want to quit, even when the casualties start increasing exponentially. Troubled by questions about the CIA's role, Noss sought out the Dalai Lama, and he talked to ma…
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Hart came to Saigon in early 1966. He was 45 at the time. He had a hand in Wisner's Wurlitzer operations, and he was involved in Italy, setting up the stay-behind units. He was also very involved in the stay-behind units in the Korean War. …
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And so, you know, I was talking to him about my research about the Tibetans and, you know, the Dalai Lama being on the CIA payroll and having CIA agents on his security detail and the Tibetans being trained in these terrorist training camps…