CIA Tibetan program | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: Subhajit Sahu
Date: 2019-01-06

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00:01:20 1 Overview
00:03:53 2 History
00:31:21 3 Contemporary Tibet-China Relationship
00:32:54 4 Costs
00:33:52 5 International lobbying
00:34:58 6 Criticism
00:36:58 7 See also



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The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Tibetan program was a covert operation during the Cold War consisting of "political action, propaganda, paramilitary and intelligence operations" based on U.S. Government arrangements made with brothers of the Dalai Lama, who himself was not initially aware of them. The goal of the program was "to keep the political concept of an autonomous Tibet alive within Tibet and among foreign nations".Although it was formally assigned to the CIA alone, it was nevertheless closely coordinated with several other U.S. government agencies such as the Department of State and the Department of Defense.Previous operations had aimed to strengthen a number of isolated Tibetan resistance groups, which eventually led to the creation of a paramilitary force on the Nepalese border with approximately 2,000 men. By February 1964, the projected annual cost for all CIA Tibetan operations had exceeded US$1.7 million.The program ended after China became a nuclear power and President Nixon visited to China to establish more friendly relations in 1972. The Dalai Lama criticized this decision, saying it proved that the US never did it to help the people of Tibet.