This army sent scouts to find the mythical city of Shangri La
An earthly paradise, a place of unimaginable beauty, breathtaking community cut off from the rest of the world could best describe the mythical city of Shangri La. As envisioned by…
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…
One Indian soldier killed 300 Chinese soldiers in a single battle
Communist China entered Tibet and occupied the country in 1951, forcing it to adopt a 17-point agreement under the threat of violence. For eight years the Tibetans lived under the…
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…