Dalai Lama Group Says It Got Money From C.I.A.

The Dalai Lama's administration acknowledged today that it received $1.7 million a year in the 1960's from the Central Intelligence Agency, but denied reports that the Tibetan leader benefited personally from an annual subsidy of $180,000.

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The Dalai Lama, 63, a revered spiritual leader both in his Himalayan homeland and in Western nations, fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against a Chinese military occupation, which began in 1950.

The decade-long covert program to support the Tibetan independence movement was part of the C.I.A.'s worldwide effort to undermine Communist governments, particularly in the Soviet Union and China.

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ソ連と中国など共産党政府を封じ込めるために、ＣＩＡがダライラマに資金援助をしていたという事実。こういうのを見ると、どうしても、アルカイーダを連想してしまう。全く違うことのように見えるけれども、アメリカの世界での覇権というメカニズムの大きなピースなんだな、と思う今日この頃。