Into Tibet: The CIA's First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Lhasa
Into Tibet: The CIA's First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Lhasa by Thomas Laird
2002 | ISBN: 0802117147, 080213999X | English | 364 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
2002 | ISBN: 0802117147, 080213999X | English | 364 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
A “fascinating” story of espionage that “fills a blank space in the hidden history of the Cold War” (Houston Chronicle).
Into Tibet is the incredible story of a 1949–1950 American undercover expedition led by America’s first atomic agent, Douglas S. Mackiernan—a covert attempt to arm the Tibetans and to recognize Tibet’s independence months before China invaded.
A Nepal-based American journalist reveals how the clash between the State Department and the CIA, as well as unguided actions by field agents, hastened the Chinese invasion of Tibet. A gripping narrative of survival, courage, and intrigue among the nomads, princes, and warring armies of inner Asia, Into Tibet rewrites the accepted history behind the Chinese invasion of Tibet.