Uncovering the CIA connections
BBC TV Documentary
The Shadow Circus: The CIA in Tibet
The Tibetan people are well known for being devoutly religious and peace loving. What is less known is that thousands of Tibetans took up arms against the invading forces of Communist China and waged a bitter and bloody guerrilla…
The Chicago Tribune
The CIA’s Secret War in Tibet
The Americans came, he said, in a big turboprop plane, a gleaming machine that he and other awed Tibetans called a “sky ship”. They wore sunglasses and baggy flight suits. They packed shiny automatic weapons on their hips. And…
The LA Times
CIA Gave Aid to Tibetan Exiles in ‘60s, Files Show
For much of the 1960s, the CIA provided the Tibetan exile movement with $1.7 million a year for operations against China, including an annual subsidy of $180,000 for the Dalai Lama, according to newly released U.S. intelligence documents.
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Newsweek
A Secret War on the Roof of the World
In 1958, the Dalai Lama was a 23-year-old god-king on the verge of losing his realm. The Chinese communists were closing in, and Tibet's spiritual leader was desperate. That's when he first heard that the Central Intelligence Agency was…
Nation Review
Myth Foisted on the Western World
The truth is that the Dalai Lama’s departure from his own capital was engineered by the CIA American agents who flew air cover for the Dalai lama’s party, dropping supplies and money, and strafing Chinese positions.
