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America’s Covert Operations In Tibet03.19.08 | 2 Comments
Keeping China Annoyed and Disturbed by Tibet
Former CIA Executive Assistant, Sam Halpern:
“I think basically the whole idea was to keep Chinese occupied somehow, keep them annoyed, keep them disturbed. No body wanted to go to war over Tibet. That’s pretty clear. We did go to war over Korea. We did go to war over Indochina. We won’t go to war over Tibet. And so, it was nuisance operation, basically nothing more. And I’ll think it’s American point of view, it wouldn’t cost very much, even money or manpower. Anyway it was not manpower, it was Tibetan manpower. We were willing to help Tibetans from becoming a running sore and a nuisance to the Chinese.”
How the CIA Sponsored And Betrayed Tibetans - Part 1
An excerpt from “THE CIA’S SECRET WAR IN TIBET”:
“The first Americans Nawang Gayltsen ever saw had small, silver eagles pinned on their caps. Nawang will never forget those eagles. They seemed auspicious, like totems of victory or success. Today, his face wrinkles into a sad smile remembering this.
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 speaking through an interpreter, they asked Nawang if he wanted to kill Chinese. “I told them I would be very happy to kill many Chinese,” recalled the 63-year-old rug merchant,
one of thousands of exiled Tibetans living in this picturesque Himalayan capital. “I was very young and strong then. Very patriotic. I told them I would even be a suicide bomber.”
The strangers, Air Force pilots working with the CIA, must have liked what they heard because on that hot day back in 1963, at a secret air base in India, they took Nawang and 40 other Tibetan recruits on the first airplane ride of their lives. It was a journey that would stretch halfway around the world and into one of the murkiest chapters of the CIA’s long history of covert activity in Asia: a secret war in Tibet.”
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Keeping China Annoyed and Disturbed by Tibet
Former CIA Executive Assistant, Sam Halpern:
“I think basically the whole idea was to keep Chinese occupied somehow, keep them annoyed, keep them disturbed. No body wanted to go to war over Tibet. That’s pretty clear. We did go to war over Korea. We did go to war over Indochina. We won’t go to war over Tibet. And so, it was nuisance operation, basically nothing more. And I’ll think it’s American point of view, it wouldn’t cost very much, even money or manpower. Anyway it was not manpower, it was Tibetan manpower. We were willing to help Tibetans from becoming a running sore and a nuisance to the Chinese.”
How the CIA Sponsored And Betrayed Tibetans - Part 1
An excerpt from “THE CIA’S SECRET WAR IN TIBET”:
“The first Americans Nawang Gayltsen ever saw had small, silver eagles pinned on their caps. Nawang will never forget those eagles. They seemed auspicious, like totems of victory or success. Today, his face wrinkles into a sad smile remembering this.
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 speaking through an interpreter, they asked Nawang if he wanted to kill Chinese. “I told them I would be very happy to kill many Chinese,” recalled the 63-year-old rug merchant,
one of thousands of exiled Tibetans living in this picturesque Himalayan capital. “I was very young and strong then. Very patriotic. I told them I would even be a suicide bomber.”
The strangers, Air Force pilots working with the CIA, must have liked what they heard because on that hot day back in 1963, at a secret air base in India, they took Nawang and 40 other Tibetan recruits on the first airplane ride of their lives. It was a journey that would stretch halfway around the world and into one of the murkiest chapters of the CIA’s long history of covert activity in Asia: a secret war in Tibet.”
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They were wearing shiny(?) automatic weapons on their hips? Who wears an automatic on their hips? Throws the entire rest of the story in doubt.
Re:”Throws the entire rest of the story in doubt.”
That’s ridiculous — though the old man’s words may be overly poetic, the fact that the CIA did support (and eventually abandon) the Tibetans, is verified fact.