The little-known stories of smokejumpers working with the CIA
The CIA had its eye on Tibet. The Buddhist nation of vast plateaus and mountain ranges in Central Asia was completely isolated from the rest of soci…
The CIA’s Special Activities Division rescued the Dalai Lama from the Chinese communists
There aren’t a lot of places in the world that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency hasn’t been. Communist China became one of those places almost as soon as the agency was created. But for the Dalai Lama, they made an exception. For much of the CIA’s formative years, it was locked in a struggle to … Continued