C.I.A. TRAINED TIBETANS IN COLORADO, NEW BOOK SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200230033-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: April 19, 1973
• Content Type: NSPR

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C.I.A.- ir~ed Tibetans in va o , o.~
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0 Sr??.r YnrY ?r'Imn I , /,'` gltarters in Lnnpley Va., 11C-
WASHINGTON, April 18--- WYO7diNG1 "'': des cause the incident occurred a
f7, week after President Kennedy
The Central Intelligence announced the appointment of book
Agency set up a secret base ? John A. McCone as the new that nation and China, the book
' spiel,
in the Colorado Rockies to train f -~%~,rf'^penver Director of Ccnlrai Intctli-
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Tibetan guerrillas in mountain ), ? Bence. ?Tr. 1icCone replaced The secret training operation
warfare in the late nineteen Leadvilla o Allen W. Dulles, whose was hardly a success, Mr. \i'iaC
because the guerrillas
fter wrote
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5 0 resignation was accep
, 1risi cs, when there was an up- Grand % ^:j
the Bay of Pigs incident, N - "infiltrated into Tibet by the
rising against Chinese rule in Junction Wise wrote. C.I.A. were attempting to bar-'
I The dispute between Tibet ass the Chinese, not t,) free t.1e
Tibet, e a new hook discloses.
and Cling began in the 13th count }; in the long run it IS
In the hook, "The Politics of I
Lying," David Wise, the author, century, Mr. Wise wrote, with doubtful that they made very
hina periodically claiming much difference. Since 1961
said that the agency began China'
"I NEwMExICO tl' Tibet as part of her territory. Conunur,ist China has tight
training Tibetan refugees re-
cruito l in India in 1958 in a o I n.'L S 10.0 Mainland China was taken over ened its grip on Tibet." 'Tibet,
deserted World War 11 Armyl by Communist forces led by like other areas largely }iopu?
base near tin Ile, Colo. The The New York Ames/April 19, 1973 Mao Tse-tung in 19.19, and in lated by ethnic minorities, now
operation continued into the) Camp reportedly was in 1950 Chinese troops marched has the states of an autonomous
early months of the Kennedy into Tibet. : region within China.
Administration, he said. ( Rockies 130 miles from
A spokesman for the agency city of Colorado Springs. In ;`ray, 1951, the Chinese: "Would the nation's security';
said that there would be no -- - -- _ signed an agreement with thee have been endangered if thcl
immediate comment on the re- When a reporter for The' Dalai Lama government for the story of the Tibetan ooeratio;l,
Occupation of Tibet, pledg- had been disclosed in 1961?".
the book asked. "In tho wake
port, New York Times subsequently ing not to alter the existing'
Mr, Wise, the former \Vash- began a routine inquiry, based political s stern in Tibet or the: of the Lay of Pigs, I:ennedy;
ington hurcau chief of The on a brief news-al2ency dis } y'
New York Herald Tribune and patch about the incident, then Powers of the Dalai Lama. ordered two, separate investi?',
However, the agreement also gations of the C.I.A., and he:
co-author of "The Invisible book said, the office of Robert'. Government," a provided for Chinese controls struggleO to take tighter c'ohl
tollibook S. McNamara, who then P
about Central Intelligence Secretary of Defen"'e, fete-i through the appointment of a trot over the a^ency's opera-!
about the Cent
Agency, wrote that the TibetanI phoned the Washington 11111-0,11military and administrative! Lions by changing its top lead-
committee, ership."
training program ripparenlly of The Times and asked that Dni rte the mid-nineteen-' "Publication of the story
ended abruptly in December,,, the story not he used because fifties, however, Air. teen might have focused public at-Wise~
1961, six months after the Bay s of "national security" reasons. ! wrote, Tibetan guerrillas began' tendon on a number of im-
of Pit's fiasco and a few; The Times acquiesced, Mr, octant issues," \Tr, r o s -
da}'S alrter its cover was a1n105t; Wise wrote, in line with Ole! ir9Ur'i erlt warfare. q,ainst the ~C'St "II:C1Udlflr the basic
blown in an flit-port near( general newspaper practice in Chinese and officials of the tertian of lvhether tax money
Colorado Sprinl,s, I these )'cars of not chillsnning; Central Ind lligence of;c the qould 1)e used, to finance
llel nition of i "concluded that the situation
aycd by Bus Accident the Government's defi
? c}rtil.'estiile intclii cnce oper-
national security news an ideal opportunity":aLOns," ,\ second iss c, he
Ironically, it was the snnwi The two top news off,inlesl i
for covert United Slates aid. ; vdded is Nvheth.^_r the agency
and the nlauntains -- they in Washington for The Tmes legal basis for o,:crntin~
In legal 1959. the Dalai
very factors that led the C.I.A,I in 1961, the bureau chlef, had a
to select Colorado for the train-1 },aura was forced to flee over secret training base in t}1e
Iames Reston, and the news high mountain passes to India) `,tired filatcs.
ing base - that almost caused: editor, Wallace Carroll, said, after a Chinese mortar attack 1 irall ', '?lr \\'ise v: rote, :hat
the operation to surface," Alrf, > ! yesterday that they did not re on his palace, Mr, Wisc' "disclosue ;11i ht also 1,rce led
. ;,
libel an trailwos were loaded. 'call the incident. Mr, Reston is asserted. Intelligence officials: t of
aboard a bus at the Army, now a vice presidents later concluded, Mr, Wise, such imPortr.nt q':^ lions as
c?anlp fora 130-mile trip to a! and columnist for The Times, wrote, that same of the goer whcth;'t Pre:)dent l:i`crnower
nearby airfield in Colorado villas who had heed trained in approved the Ti'uctan o, orawion,
and Mr. Carroll is editor anc} the Colorado Rockies had been whether President Kennedyas
Springs where w a large Air'
force jet was waiting tot Publisher of the Journal arid responsible for guiding the; aware of it or approved it, and
y I and
quietly fly them out of the) Sentinel in Winston-Salem, Dalai Lanxi to safety. whether the four `
But corning down the moun N. C. Coon wn rfare broke out in' inittees of the Con ress }lad
country before dawn. , Jack Raymond, ,v1,() was do 1'ih.t after the escape, i\1r Wise' ilad any ;,no of theof ~ti},atwas
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tain," 1ti r Wise wrote "the) tense correspondent for The reported, and UMMIands of; going on in, Colorado."
bus skidded oft the road in the males in 191)1, said yesterday! Tibetans were killed and the:
snow. As a result of the delay: that "I do remember at the time i Dalai Lama's government wall
1 - knowing about the incident' dissolved by the Chinese. {n-, C (/I- L{ ' `ri bCA
caused by the eidrt, it was, and I don't recall what )re
da}?lic;h}, when t 11h1^ Tibetans ar-~ 1 i clip's decision to grant sane-:
vented me from writing about friary to the Dalai Larva also,
rived at the field." it. increased the Pressure. between L (.~ I 11veCuN~=~
Once there, the book went Mr. Raivrllnnd who is now
itv officials herded he air- dilute for Hunlanist.ic. .Studies
port's employes around at g1111- in New oorl:, added in a tcle-
point, but not until at least )Bone interview. "I'm inclined
one of them saw the 'T'ibetans, to think that I didn't have
board the jet. enau ti infor-nlaliohl about it to
Complaints to the local' write it story. I have no imme-
sheriff were mute about the di ate. recollection of being
manhan