Dalai Lama Cables

The Dalai Lama Cables: A Wolf in Monk’s Robes?

The Communist Chinese regime regularly refer to the Dalai Lama as 'a wolf in monk's robes'. They claim that he is behind violent protests in Tibet, that his supposedly compassionate wish to help flood and earthquake victims in China and Tibet is just a political ploy, that his travels around the world giving teachings is part of a political strategy to attack China and that the he uses the monks and monasteries in Tibet to organise insurgency.

The Dalai Lama, himself, laughs at these claims, and the western media laugh with him. China is portrayed as almost hysterical in its demonizing of the Dalai Lama. But is there any truth to what they say?

The brutal suppression of the Tibetans who resist communist rule in Tibet is well documented, and we absolutely oppose injustice and oppression anywhere. However, the Dalai Lama is a political leader, and all political leaders must be held up to scrunity.

As Tibetologist Jens-Uwe Hartmann of the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin said:

'The glorification of the Dalai Lama in his capacity as a political leader will not help the democratisation process. A critical debate on his political statements must be possible and should not be suppressed by the argument that criticism only serves the Chinese.'

We have examined the declassified US State Department documents and we have found evidence that could support all three of the Chinese claims:

With respect to organising protests, the Dalai Lama and his representatives refer to the protests as 'spontaneous'. However, in a telegram from the New Delhi Embassy dated 30 March 1967, we can see that the Bureau of the Dalai Lama privately admit that they were involved in organising these 'spontaneous' protests.

With respect to exploiting natural disasters - such as floods and earthquakes - for political gain, a telegram from the US Embassy in Calcutta, dated 8 January 1955, describes a 'Tibetan Flood Relief Commitee' set up by the Tibetans in exile. The telegram makes it clear that the benefits of supporting the relief effort are to win a propaganda coup over the Chinese communists and to support the resistence fighters positions. Furthermore, the telegram explicitly reveals that the 'tibetan exiles conceived TFRC principally as a psychological tactic against Chinese communists.

With respect to using teaching visits as a political strategy against China, a United States Government Office Memorandum dated 21 February 1952 contains fascinating information. The context of the memo is a discussion of how best to respond to the Dalai Lama's request for US assistance against the Chinese Communists. The Dalai Lama's request was brought by his brother Taktse Rimpche. In the memo a discussion between various interested parties, including the CIA, is referenced. The CIA went on to formulate and fund a strategy of anti-communist propaganda with the Dalai Lama that included sponsoring him personally, and well as establishing Tibet Houses on his behalf in various locations and encouraging him to teach widely. In the discussion mentioned in this memo, they describe organising a teaching tour by distinguished Buddhist leaders as:

'a major step towards utilizing certain elements of the Buddhist world in one aspect of psychological warfare'.

With respect to using uses the monks and monasteries in Tibet to organise insurgency, a telegram from the US Embassy in Calcutta to the Secretary of State in Washington, dated 11 September 1952, reveals:

'Gyalo and Shakabpa with Dalai Lama's knowledge seriously considering forming secret organisation to infiltrate Tibet from India, and possibly Nepal, using Tibetan Monasteries as centers for anti-communist resistance; propaganda first, weapons later.'

We know from other documents that this plan was put into effect.

Of course these declassified documents are now revealing old facts, but also they reveal a modus operandi. In A Great Deception we traced the various events surrounding the violent uprising in Tibet before the Beijing Olympics in 2008 back to the Dalai Lama and his key respresentatives.

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The Dalai Lama Cables: A Wolf in Monk’s Robes?

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