The 14th Dalai Lama, after arriving in India in 1959 from what was

by all non-China accounts the brutal occupation of his country.

Guerilla Files Exposed: ‘CIA Funding for the Dalai Lama’ (La Repubblica, Italy)

“It all began after the brutal Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950 with secret meetings between the U.S. and the legitimate Tibetan government - that is, the Dalai Lama himself - from 1951 to 1956. The story, narrated by investigative reporters of Germany’s Suddeutsche Zeitung, must certainly have provoked leaps of joy at the Chinese Embassy in Berlin.”

By Andrea Tarquini

Translated By Kate Townsend

June 9, 2012

Italy - La Repubblica - Original Article (Italian)

BERLIN: From the very beginning, the Dalai Lama knew that the CIA, the American Secret Service, backed the armed resistance of the Tibetan people against Chinese occupation. Although he is a world-renowned symbol of non-violence, he apparently approved of this support. It all began after the brutal Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950 with secret meetings between the U.S. and the legitimate Tibetan government - that is, the Dalai Lama himself - from 1951 to 1956. The story, narrated by investigative reporters from Germany’s Suddeutsche Zeitung, must certainly have provoked leaps of joy at the Chinese Embassy in Berlin.

The first contacts date back to the year after Chinese aggression began. Meetings between the Dalai Lama and American agents took place at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi and the U.S. Consulate in Calcutta. According to the Sueddeutsche, the Pentagon promised to the Dalai Lama himself supplies of light weaponry and financial support for the resistance movement. In the summer of 1956, the CIA operation in Tibet becomes became a top secret file, labeled “ST Circus” [see video below]. 

According to secret documents and testimonies of CIA veterans like John Kenneth Knaus, it was decided that agents would do “everything possible to keep the concept of an autonomous Tibet alive” and “enhance resistance in Tibet against developments driven by communist China.” Knaus recounts that his first encounter with the Dalai Lama was a cold one. Washington, committed to training and arming Tibetan guerrilla fighters, also granted them $180,000 a year for the armed struggle against the occupying Chinese, the daily liberal Munich newspaper informs, citing an alleged secret dossier citing  “amounts declared as financial aid to the Dalai Lama.”

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Certain events followed the CIA memorandums. The Tibetan guerilla fighters were first trained in secret camps on islands in the South Seas [the Mariana Islands] and then trained at Camp Hale in the Rocky Mountains, where the climatic conditions were similar to those in Tibet. Contact with the Dalai Lama and his advisers were continuous, even during his adventurous escape from occupied Tibet to Dharamsala in India. The number of guerilla fighters trained by the CIA reached 85,000 and their organization was called Chushi Gangdruk [In Tibetan, this means Four Rivers, Six Ranges].

Tibetan officers and sergeants trained by the Americans parachuted from unmarked Boeing B-17 bombers (the glorious Flying Fortresses that crushed Hitler and Japan) in low-altitude flights over occupied Tibet. The guerilla fighters attacked in small groups. “We took pleasure in killing as many Chinese as possible, and, unlike when we slaughter beasts to for food, we said no prayers for their dead,” said one veteran from the Tibetan resistance. [This man is interviewed in the BBC documentary embedded above].

It isn’t that the Dalai Lama lied, writes the Sueddeutsche, but up to now he certainly has not provided the whole truth about his relationship with the armed resistance. Usually hailed like the Pope as “His Holiness,” in the headline of the German daily paper, he is defined by a malicious attack: Heiliger Schein [Holiness Light], which implies the superficiality of the term when applied to him.

The CIA operation with the Dalai Lama began in the 1950, but ended abruptly [in 1969]. The normalization of U.S.-China relations began right after a secret trip to Beijing by then-U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The Tibetan cause was thus sacrificed to the Realpolitik of the two powers. Many Tibetan guerilla fighters decided to shoot themselves in the mouth, slit their own throats or open their veins rather than fall into the hands of Guabuo - the Chinese Gestapo. The dogs of war who were left fled south and enlisted with Indian Special Forces.