[CPEO-MEF] HISTORY: "Large ceremony celebrates discovery of Camp Hale [CO] site where CIA trained Tibetan freedom fighters"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Large ceremony celebrates discovery of Camp Hale site where CIA trained Tibetan freedom fighters
Event features international attendees as well as those who lived at the site

By John LaConte 
Vail Daily (CO)
June 10, 2024

The commemoration of a CIA training site at Camp Hale National Monument was a major event for the global Tibetan community on Sunday, with members of an international delegation visiting from as far as India.

But for Dr. Carole McGranahan, a Tibet scholar and anthropologist with the University of Colorado Boulder, it was the culmination of a goal she had quietly set for herself 14 years earlier — find the site and recognize it.

McGranahan had been working toward her goal since September of 2010, when a plaque honoring the Tibetan freedom fighters who were trained by the CIA at Camp Hale from 1959-1964 was installed thanks to the efforts of Mark Udall, who was a U.S. senator from Colorado at the time. It was the first official acknowledgment of Tibet’s history at Camp Hale, McGranahan said during a speech at the 2010 event.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.vaildaily.com/news/large-tibetan-ceremony-celebrates-discovery-of-camp-hale-site-where-freedom-fighters-trained-from-1959-1964/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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