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Comment by CHRISTINA on January 17, 2016 at 3:56pm

In October 1998, the Dalai Lama's administration acknowledged 
that it received $1.7 million a year in the 1960s from the U.S. 
government through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 
and also trained a resistance movement in Colorado (USA).When 
asked by CIA officer John Kenneth Knaus in 1995 whether the 
organisation did a good or bad thing in providing its support, 
the Dalai Lama replied that though it helped the morale of those 
resisting the Chinese, "thousands of lives were lost in the resistance" 
and further, that "the U.S. Government had involved itself in his 
country's affairs not to help Tibet but only as a Cold War 
tactic to challenge the Chinese." - (Wikipedia Entry on Dalai Lama)