Proof not just ramblings.
Perhaps young Tibetans are just pissed off with oppression.
Duh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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> Tibet, the 'great game' and the CIA
> By Richard M Bennett
>
> Given the historical context of the unrest in Tibet, there is reason
> to believe Beijing was caught on the hop with the recent
> demonstrations for the simple reason that their planning took place
> outside of Tibet and that the direction of the protesters is similarly
> in the hands of anti-Chinese organizers safely out of reach in Nepal
> and northern India.
>
> Similarly, the funding and overall control of the unrest has also been
> linked to Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, and by inference to
> the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) because of his close
> cooperation with US intelligence for over 50 years.
>
> Indeed, with the CIA's deep involvement with the Free Tibet Movement
> and its funding of the suspiciously well-informed Radio Free Asia, it
> would seem somewhat unlikely that any revolt could
>
>
>
> have been planned or occurred without the prior knowledge, and even
> perhaps the agreement, of the National Clandestine Service (formerly
> known as the Directorate of Operations) at CIA headquarters in
> Langley.
>
> Respected columnist and former senior Indian Intelligence officer, B
> Raman, commented on March 21 that "on the basis of available evidence,
> it was possible to *****s with a reasonable measure of conviction"
> that the initial uprising in Lhasa on March 14 "had been pre-planned
> and well orchestrated".
>
> Could there be a factual basis to the suggestion that the main
> beneficiaries to the death and destruction sweeping Tibet are in
> Wa****ngton? History would suggest that this is a distinct
> possibility.
>
> The CIA conducted a large scale covert action campaign against the
> communist Chinese in Tibet starting in 1956. This led to a disastrous
> bloody uprising in 1959, leaving tens of thousands of Tibetans dead,
> while the Dalai Lama and about 100,000 followers were forced to flee
> across the treacherous Himalayan p***** to India and Nepal.
>
> The CIA established a secret military training camp for the Dalai
> Lama's resistance fighters at Camp Hale near Leadville, Colorado, in
> the US. The Tibetan guerrillas were trained and equipped by the CIA
> for guerrilla warfare and sabotage operations against the communist
> Chinese.
>
> The US-trained guerrillas regularly carried out raids into Tibet, on
> occasions led by CIA-contract mercenaries and sup****ted by CIA planes.
> The initial training program ended in December 1961, though the camp
> in Colorado appears to have remained open until at least 1966.
>
> The CIA Tibetan Task Force created by Roger E McCarthy, alongside the
> Tibetan guerrilla army, continued the operation codenamed "St Circus"
> to harass the Chinese occupation forces for another 15 years until
> 1974, when officially sanctioned involvement ceased.
>
> McCarthy, who also served as head of the Tibet Task Force at the
> height of its activities from 1959 until 1961, later went on to run
> similar operations in Vietnam and Laos.
>
> By the mid-1960s, the CIA had switched its strategy from parachuting
> guerrilla fighters and intelligence agents into Tibet to establi****ng
> the Chusi Gangdruk, a guerrilla army of some 2,000 ethnic Khamba
> fighters at bases such as Mustang in Nepal.
>
> This base was only closed down in 1974 by the Nepalese government
> after being put under tremendous pressure by Beijing.
> After the Indo-China War of 1962, the CIA developed a close
> relation****p with the Indian intelligence services in both training
> and supplying agents in Tibet.
>
> Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison in their book The CIA's Secret War
> in Tibet disclose that the CIA and the Indian intelligence services
> cooperated in the training and equipping of Tibetan agents and special
> forces troops and in forming joint aerial and intelligence units such
> as the Aviation Research Center and Special Center.
>
> This collaboration continued well into the 1970s and some of the
> programs that it sponsored, especially the special forces unit of
> Tibetan refugees which would become an im****tant part of the Indian
> Special Frontier Force, continue into the present.
>
> Only the deterioration in relations with India which coincided with
> improvements in those with Beijing brought most of the joint CIA-
> Indian operations to an end.
>
> Though Wa****ngton had been scaling back sup****t for the Tibetan
> guerrillas since 1968, it is thought that the end of official US
> backing for the resistance only came during meetings between president
> Richard Nixon and the Chinese communist leader****p in Beijing in
> February 1972.
>
> Victor Marchetti, a former CIA officer has described the outrage many
> field agents felt when Wa****ngton finally pulled the plug, adding that
> a number even "[turned] for solace to the Tibetan prayers which they
> had learned during their years with the Dalai Lama".
>
> The former CIA Tibetan Task Force chief from 1958 to 1965, John
> Kenneth Knaus, has been quoted as saying, "This was not some CIA black-
> bag operation." He added, "The initiative was coming from ... the
> entire US government."
>
> In his book Orphans of the Cold War, Knaus writes of the obligation
> Americans feel toward the cause of Tibetan independence from China.
> Significantly, he adds that its realization "would validate the more
> worthy motives of we who tried to help them achieve this goal over 40
> years ago. It would also alleviate the guilt some of us feel over our
> participation in these efforts, which cost others their lives, but
> which were the prime adventure of our own."
>
> Despite the lack of official sup****t it is still widely rumored that
> the CIA were involved, if only by proxy, in another failed revolt in
> October 1987, the unrest that followed and the consequent Chinese
> repression continuing till May 1993.
>
> The timing for another serious attempt to destabilize Chinese rule in
> Tibet would appear to be right for the CIA and Langley will
> undoubtedly keep all its options open.
>
> China is faced with significant problems, with the Uighur Muslims in
> Xinjiang province; the activities of the Falun Gong among many other
> dissident groups and of course growing concern over the security of
> the Summer Olympic Games in August.
>
> China is viewed by Wa****ngton as a major threat, both economic and
> military, not just in Asia, but in Africa and Latin America as well.
>
> The CIA also views China as being "unhelpful" in the "war on terror",
> with little or no cooperation being offered and nothing positive being
> done to stop the flow of arms and men from Muslim areas of western
> China to sup****t Islamic extremist movements in Afghanistan and
> Central Asian states.
>
> To many in Wa****ngton, this may seem the ideal op****tunity to knock
> the Beijing government off balance as Tibet is still seen as China's
> potential weak spot.
>
> The CIA will undoubtedly ensure that its fingerprints are not
> discovered all over this growing revolt. Cut-outs and proxies will be
> used among the Tibetan exiles in Nepal and India's northern border
> areas.
>
> Indeed, the CIA can expect a significant level of sup****t from a
> number of security organizations in both India and Nepal and will have
> no trouble in providing the resistance movement with advice, money and
> above all, publicity.
>
> However, not until the unrest shows any genuine signs of becoming an
> open revolt by the great mass of ethnic Tibetans against the Han
> Chinese and Hui Muslims will any weapons be allowed to appear.
>
> Large quantities of former Eastern bloc small arms and explosives have
> been re****tedly smuggled into Tibet over the past 30 years, but these
> are likely to remain safely hidden until the right op****tunity
> presents itself.
>
> The weapons have been acquired on the world markets or from stocks
> captured by US or Israeli forces. They have been sanitized and are
> deniable, untraceable back to the CIA.
>
> Weapons of this nature also have the advantage of being
> interchangeable with those used by the Chinese armed forces and of
> course use the same ammunition, easing the problem of resupply during
> any future conflict.
>
> Though official sup****t for the Tibetan resistance ended 30 years ago,
> the CIA has kept open its lines of communications and still funds much
> of the Tibetan Freedom movement.
>
> So is the CIA once again playing the "great game" in Tibet?
>
> It certainly has the capability, with a significant intelligence and
> paramilitary presence in the region. Major bases exist in Afghanistan,
> Iraq, Pakistan and several Central Asian states.
>
> It cannot be doubted that it has an interest in undermining China, as
> well as the more obvious target of Iran.
>
> So the probable answer is yes, and indeed it would be rather
> surprising if the CIA was not taking more than just a passing interest
> in Tibet. That is after all what it is paid to do.
>
> Since September 11, 2001, there has been a sea-change in US
> Intelligence attitudes, requirements and capabilities. Old operational
> plans have been dusted off and updated. Previous assets re-activated.
> Tibet and the perceived weakness of China's position there will
> probably have been fully re*****sed.
>
> For Wa****ngton and the CIA, this may seem a heaven-sent op****tunity to
> create a significant lever against Beijing, with little risk to
> American interests; simply a win-win situation.
>
> The Chinese government would be on the receiving end of worldwide
> condemnation for its continuing repression and violation of human
> rights and it will be young Tibetans dying on the streets of Lhasa
> rather than yet more uniformed American kids.
>
> The consequences of any open revolt against Beijing, however, are that
> once again the fear of arrest, torture and even execution will pervade
> every corner of both Tibet and those neighboring provinces where large
> Tibetan populations exist, such as Gansu, Qinghai and Sichuan.
>
> And the Tibetan Freedom movement still has little likelihood of
> achieving any significant improvement in central Chinese policy in the
> long run and no chance whatever of removing its control of Lhasa and
> their homeland.
>
> Once again it would appear that the Tibetan people will find
> themselves trapped between an oppressive Beijing and a manipulative
> Wa****ngton.
>
> Beijing sends in the heavies
> The fear that the United States, Britain and other Western states may
> try to ****tray Tibet as another Kosovo may be part of the reason why
> the Chinese authorities reacted as if faced with a genuine mass revolt
> rather than their official ****trayal of a short-lived outbreak of
> unrest by malcontents sup****ting the Dalai Lama.
>
> Indeed, so seriously did Beijing view the situation that a special
> security coordination unit, the 110 Command Center, has been
> established in Lhasa with the primary objective of suppressing the
> disturbances and restoring full central government control.
>
> The center appears to be under the direct control of Zhang Qingli,
> first secretary of the Tibet Party and a President Hu Jintao loyalist.
> Zhang is also the former Xinjiang deputy party secretary with
> considerable experience in counter-terrorism operations in that
> region.
>
> Others holding im****tant positions in Lhasa are Zhang Xinfeng, vice
> minister of the Central Public Security Ministry and Zhen Yi, deputy
> commander of the People's Armed Police Headquarters in Beijing.
>
> The seriousness with which Beijing is treating the present unrest is
> further illustrated by the deployment of a large number of im****tant
> army units from the Chengdu Military Region, including brigades from
> the 149th Mechanized Infantry Division, which acts as the region's
> rapid reaction force.
>
> According to a United Press International re****t, elite ground force
> units of the People's Liberation Army were involved in Lhasa, and the
> new T-90 armored personnel carrier and T-92 wheeled armored vehicles
> were deployed. According to the re****t, China has denied the
> participation of the army in the crackdown, saying it was carried out
> by units of the armed police. "Such equipment as mentioned above has
> never been deployed by China's armed police, however."
>
> Air sup****t is provided by the 2nd Army Aviation Regiment, based at
> Fenghuangshan, Chengdu, in Sichuan province. It operates a mix of
> helicopters and STOL trans****ts from a frontline base near Lhasa.
> Combat air sup****t could be quickly made available from fighter ground
> attack squadrons based within the Chengdu region.
> The Xizang Military District forms the Tibet garrison, which has two
> mountain infantry units; the 52nd Brigade based at Linzhi and the 53rd
> Brigade at Yaoxian Shannxi. These are sup****ted by the 8th Motorized
> Infantry Division and an artillery brigade at Shawan, Xinjiang.
>
> Tibet is also no longer quite as remote or difficult to resupply for
> the Chinese army. The construction of the first railway between 2001
> and 2007 has significantly eased the problems of the movement of large
> numbers of troops and equipment from Qinghai onto the rugged Tibetan
> plateau.
>
> Other precautions against a resumption of the long-term Tibetan
> revolts of previous years has led to a considerable degree of self-
> sufficiency in logistics and vehicle repair by the Tibetan garrison
> and an increasing number of small airfields have been built to allow
> rapid-reaction units to gain access to even the most remote areas.
>
> The Chinese Security Ministry and intelligence services had been
> thought to have a suffocating presence in the province and indeed the
> ability to detect any serious protest movement and suppress
> resistance.
>
> Richard M Bennett, intelligence and security consultant, AFI
> Research.
>
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