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CIA used
Mustang documented
“without aircraft seemed impossible. But they were very efficient at setting up ways to do that. One of the new tactics was going to be using a ancient principality called Mustang. And that was located between Tibet and Nepal. And of course,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 1:55
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Mustang book_quoted
“and into the charade when the king of Nepal visited him in Peking in November 1973. The next year, Nepal, with the information gleaned by Baba Yeshe and prior arrangements with mainland China to patrol that area, it put 10,000 royal troops …”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 44:09
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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
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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…
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changed completely after 1960 with the end of direct airdrops. The NVDA had to reestablish itself at that more remote base called Mustang. But it was so remote that only raids not sustained operations were possible. And Gampo Tashi was repl…
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Intelligence representatives were held weekly. Complaints against Baba Yesi eventually resulted in his replacement by a nephew of the late Gampo Tashi. He was by this time the sole survivor of the original cadre that the CIA had recruited b…
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25 outbuildings, there were staff sections for supply, transport, intelligence, munitions, blah, blah, blah. It was a far cry from what it looked like a few years earlier. The Tibetans maintained their presence at Mustang into the 1970s. Th…
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and into the charade when the king of Nepal visited him in Peking in November 1973. The next year, Nepal, with the information gleaned by Baba Yeshe and prior arrangements with mainland China to patrol that area, it put 10,000 royal troops …
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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…
▶ 1:55
without aircraft seemed impossible. But they were very efficient at setting up ways to do that. One of the new tactics was going to be using a ancient principality called Mustang. And that was located between Tibet and Nepal. And of course,…
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On September 15th, 1960, the 5412 group convened just before the National Security Council meeting. According to the record, quote, as a result of the discussion, the DCI said he would reorient his thinking to some extent, unquote. The key …
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Galbraith. The list of projects, many of which bothered the ambassador. A couple of weeks earlier, President Kennedy had authorized CIA airdrops to the Mustang location. Galbraith determined to stop these spooky activities. Tibet among them…
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And a pair of them had already taken place, even as the new ambassador prepared to leave for his new post. One dropped equipment over Mustang. The other one moved CIA teams inside Tibet. The new ambassador persisted in his negative view. He…
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lasted somewhat longer. Kennedy did rule out further flights into Tibet. Everything happened at Mustang. The camp, a mountain stronghold in the northwest part of Kathmandu, inside of Nepal, began growing in the 1960s.…
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But when the Tibetans learned their forces were gathering at Mustang, a migration from all over India began towards that location. That meant publicly that people were going to realize something significant was going on there, and that caus…
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Though they had more success blocking access to the camp. In October of 61, the NVDA achieved a great success. A raiding party led by the Indian-trained partisan RAGRA sent to disrupt traffic along one of the major roads wiped out the Chine…
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prohibited by law from operating inside the United States and has no authority to detain citizens or to protect secrecy. The major flap in Washington ended Roger McCarthy's tenure as chief of the task force. He was replaced by John Noss, a …
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of the resistance. I'm sure that was accurate. In that book, Noss fails to mention anything about the Peterson incident. Imagine that. With Mustang, the pattern of operations changed completely. The virtual end of airdrops and Chinese domin…
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made it impossible to wage large-scale operations. Meanwhile, Mustang itself proved so remote that sustained forays were not possible. Yeshe replaced Tashi and things kind of went south from there. The resistance was reduced to less than 7,…
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lost most of what it had gained after India's 1962 border war with China when W. Avril Harriman made a diplomatic tour of the region and sided with the ambassador. Not even Desmond Fitzgerald, Jim Critchfield, or John Noss, who were among h…
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Fitzgerald's fallback proposal, an alliance among CIA, Indian intelligence, and the Tibetans. As the Mustang forces diminished, most of the partisan enlisted in the Indian Border Commando Unit, which eventually far exceeded the resistance i…
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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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would eventually get cold feet. By 1968, the CIA had told the special group that no current operations justified the Tibetan forces at Mustang. The few telephone taps the CIA wanted could easily be managed by a much smaller effort. The foll…
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John Koss is not convinced this was the case, but basically now laid the law down for Nepal. The next year, the Nepal government, with information from the disinfected Ayashi, had set up arrangements with the PLA to patrol their side of the…
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some of their most fierce fighters. The top commander escaped with the NVDA archives and had a small escort only to be killed in a later ambush. Seven other Tibetan leaders surrendered at Mustang and sat in a Kathmandu jail until pardoned b…