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Defiance against Chinese oppression has been a defining characteristic of Tibetan life since the 1950s, symbolized most visibly by the much revered Dalai Lama. But the story of Tibetan resistance weaves a far richer tapestry than may be imagined. This text looks at how America's Central Intelligence Agency encouraged Tibet's revolt against China - and eventually came to control its fledgling resistance movement. It provides an account of this little known agency enterprise. It takes readers from training camps in the Colorado Rockies to the scene of clandestine operations in the Himalayas, chronicling the agency's help in securing the Dalai Lama's safe passage to India and subsequent initiation of one of the most remote covert campaigns of the Cold War.

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"""The inside story of one of the CIA's most tragic covert operations. Agency officers in the Wild East; nationalist, religious, and ethnic conflict - this is the stuff of a great yarn; which the authors tell in engaging detail."" JOHN PRADOS, AUTHOR OF PRESIDENTS' SECRET WARS: CIA AND PENTAGON COVERT OPERATIONS FROM WORLD WAR II THROUGH THE PERSIAN GULF ""A masterful account of how the CIA sought to play the 'new great game' on the roof of the world."" DAVID F. RUDGERS, AUTHOR OF CREATING THE SECRET STATE: ORIGINS OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, 1943-1947 ""An excellent and impressive study of a major CIA covert operation during the Cold War."" WILLIAM M. LEARY, AUTHOR OF PERILOUS MISSIONS: CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT AND CIA COVERT OPERATIONS IN ASIA"

The inside story of one of the CIA's most tragic covert operations. Agency officers in the Wild East; nationalist, religious, and ethnic conflict - this is the stuff of a great yarn; which the authors tell in engaging detail. JOHN PRADOS, AUTHOR OF PRESIDENTS' SECRET WARS: CIA AND PENTAGON COVERT OPERATIONS FROM WORLD WAR II THROUGH THE PERSIAN GULF A masterful account of how the CIA sought to play the 'new great game' on the roof of the world. DAVID F. RUDGERS, AUTHOR OF CREATING THE SECRET STATE: ORIGINS OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, 1943-1947 An excellent and impressive study of a major CIA covert operation during the Cold War. WILLIAM M. LEARY, AUTHOR OF PERILOUS MISSIONS: CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT AND CIA COVERT OPERATIONS IN ASIA

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Kenneth Conboy is a former policy analyst and deputy director at the Asian Studies Center in Washington, D.C., whose other books include Spies and Commandos (see page 30) and Feet to the Fire: CIA Covert Operations in Indonesia, 1957-1958. The late James Morrison was a thirty-year Army veteran and the last training officer for the CIA-sponsored Unity project. He coauthored numerous books with Conboy, including Shadow War: The CIA's Secret War in Laos.

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