[Peace-discuss] AOTA yesterday

[Karen Aram via Peace-discuss]

I had a chance to view it last evening. Everyone was very good, nicely done. 
 
I particularly wish to support what Stuart discussed in relation to Mr. Hin of United for Peace and Justice, in reference to his statement that the CIA supported the "Freedom for Tibet" movement. This is documented in Tim Weiners book "Legacy of Ashes", page 349-350.
 
In 1960 Eisenhower approved the CIA spending tens of millions of dollars parachuting tons of weapons to hundreds of Tibetan guerrillas who fought for their spiritual leader, the fourteenth Dalai Lama.  This was an effort at combatting Chinese Communism. The agency set up a training camp for the Tibetan fighters in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and it paid an annual subsidy of some $180,000 directly to the Dalai Lama. By 1969 when the agency requested 2.5 million more for the upcoming year, Kissinger asked  "does this have any direct benefit to us?" He then answered his own question by scuttling the program, though the CIA subsidy to the Dalai Lama continued, the Tibetan resistance was abandoned. 
 
The results had been dozens of dead resistance fighters, and one bloodstained satchel of invaluable Chinese military documents seized in a firefight. 
 
I'm currently researching information related to the CIA support for terrorists in the northwest province of China, that Mr. Hin refers to, which I assume to be the Uighurs of Xijiang. I did hear this recently from a Chinese contact in Beijing, and I wonder if there is documented proof available, or if this is mere speculation on the part of the Chinese, with good reason of course.
 		 	   		  
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