--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if anyone has ever tried to get the CIA reports on Mahesh > via the Freedom of Information Act? That would be interesting to see. > Interesting point- Prompted by your remark, I was searching both the Department of State and CIA websites just now for references to TM, Maharishi, and the Dalai Lama. Not much on TM- A couple of references on the State Dept. website regarding relgious freedom in Austria and the Netherlands.
Regarding the Dalai Lama: >From Questions Pertaining to Tibet (1969-1972)-- http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/70146.pdf "During the first Nixon administration (19691972), the U.S. Government continued its decade-long support of the Dalai Lama and his followers, including political action, propaganda, and paramilitary activity... Funds also were provided to the Dalai Lama for his propaganda efforts ...This operation began during the second Eisenhower administration(19571961) and continued through the Kennedy and Johnson administrations... The total cost of the Tibetan program ...was approximately $2.5 million per year with $500,000 of that figure for non-guerrilla political, propaganda, and intelligence operations. ...CIA Tibetan activities, utilizing followers of the Dalai Lama, have included in addition to guerrilla support a program of political, propaganda, and intelligence operations." Interesting that Maharishi claims the CIA opposes him, but for Tibetan Buddhists, the CIA was an ally.
