| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Cold War in the High Himalayas: The USA, China, and South Asia in the 1950s. By S. Mahmud Ali. (New York: St. Martin's, 1999. xl, 286 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-312-22693-4.)

Both before and after the failed Tibetan revolt of March 1959, the United States supported anti-Chinese Tibetan rebels as part of its Cold War strategy of destabilizing China's Communist government in Beijing. As A. Tom Grunfeld in The Making of Modern Tibet (1987) and John Prados in Presidents' Secret Wars (1986), among others, have shown, that effort entailed cooperation between the United States Central Intelligence Agency and India's Intelligence Bureau, notwithstanding the generally chilly relations between Washington and New Delhi. Although in 1954 the Indian prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, reluctantly conceded China's control of Tibet, India, as the successor to the British raj, retained a strong interest in and sympathy for the Tibetans. Moreover, even during the heyday of Sino-Indian friendship in the mid-1950s, there were many Indian security and intelligence officials who, for good reasons, mistrusted China, which they correctly viewed as a threat to India's interests. . . .

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