TIBET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82R00025R000100060015-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 30, 2005
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: April 27, 1959
• Content Type: NOTES

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TIBET
"Tibet" Includes Tibet proper plus its eastern area Maim as
Chasdo, formerly included in Chinese province of 8 ks
A. Total area about equal to twice that of Texas.
Tibet about 1,300, . About sane number Tibetans
boring areas Chisa, sepal, Bhutan
It. Long history of Conflict between Tibetan* and Chi"".
A.
my forcibly imposed by *snchua 1720.
B. Basersinty claimed by ants q lent Chinese gave
About 250,;000 abet tribesmen in Chando notorious for
se authority.
2.
f Tibet. Panchen
lessor spiritual authority, have resided at dhigatse, in a
monastery where there ore a 12,50{
eeenth in succession.
1.
n Chinese province of Tsing
t to Been It".
hen
in Tsiu hai province of Tibetan pareents.
ants.
of Tibetan parents.
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elated to Dalai Lana)
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962.
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token Tibetan
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A. Tibetan envoys asosluded agreement with Chinese Communists at
Ifty
1. Chinese given right maintain troops in Tibet, conduct
Tibet's foreign affairs.
Peiping promised retain Tibetan government, preserve
at and religious status
red to as "Tibet Region o
Tibetan rosistanee continued
ley toward Tibet
A. 98 has not case!
itory late 1955.
assertion that China has severe
Tibet, but has not questioned the Ch
1.
2. After
ty
peaitka
ial:ion*lista insist Tibet is an integral part of China)
the start of resent revolt, President Chiang Kai-shek
equivocably that following the Nationalists' return to
ly after C o ist Colli
Tibetans in in+
"we will assist the Tibetan people to realize
aspirations in accordance with the
"
,at revolt maintaining
of Tibet.
Nianlayan Border Staters
A. SOPS'
first in the nation's history--resulted in the moderate
ad neutralist Nepali Congress Party winning over two-
an estimated 8,500,000. Area
on status
. An independent kingdom. The recent nations
do d the seats..
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