Meet My Dad - Clay Cathey - CIA in Tibet

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Clay Cathey isn't your average retiree playing golf on a weekday. He's a former CIA retiree playing golf on a weekday, and he's got some interesting stuff to say. He's also my father, and the reason why I started this project in the first place. In 2005, I found out Dad had worked on the CIA operation with Tibet from 1958 to 1962. It had been declassified in 1997, so there were several books on the topic, as well as a 1998 BBC documentary by Tenzing Sonam and Ritu Sarin. After beginning to learn about this history, I was amazed it was still so little-known, and felt compelled to add my perspective on it. Two years and over 30 interviews later, I'm just starting to get a handle on the scope of the story.

Currently in production, CIA IN TIBET is an inside look at the CIA's covert backing of Tibet's guerrilla war with China in the 50s and 60s. This documentary project is being produced by the daughter of a former CIA case officer who worked on the Tibetan Task Force in India and Nepal. Combined with rare archival and personal footage, her father's never-before-told stories mix with other key player's accounts and diverse perspectives in this timely examination of a seminal event in Tibet's continuing struggle for independence from China. * 1 feature-length documentary * video blog and website photo galleries

From the beginnings of the Communist Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950, to the end of the CIA's operation in 1972, CIA IN TIBET recounts an epic era where an estimated 1.2 million Tibetans died in the Resistance, and seeks to reveal how the events of the past have shaped the ongoing issues today. * How did the Tibetan resistance deal with with the conflict between their Buddhist belief in non-violence, and the need to fight for their country's freedom? * From top-secret training in guerrilla warfare, to midnight overflights dropping weapons, supplies, and Tibetan freedom fighters into Chinese-occupied Tibet, what finally brought an end to the CIA's 15 year operation? * What impact did the CIA ultimately have in Tibet's ongoing mission to be an independent nation?

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[dtisang]

God bless to both of you. By the way good putt..

[gohan4585]

Yo, Thanks for this video upload & exposure Lisa Cathey.