(en) Hugh Deane, « History Repeats Itself: The Cold War in Tibet », CovertAction Quarterly(en), vol. 29, No 2 (1987), pp. 48-50 : « In 1942 the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the predecessor to the CIA, sent two agents into Tibet - Ulya Tolstoy, emigre: grandson of Leo Tolstoy, and Brooke Dolan, another professional adventurer. Their principal mission was to search out transportation links between India and Yunnan and Sichuan provinces that would at least partially offset the loss of the Burma Road, severed by the Japanese. Their task also was to win high-level friendships in an area which OSS chief William J. Donovan predicted "will be strategically valuable in the future." He supported the opening of radio communication with Lhasa. The Tibetan leadership also had agents. When Tolstoy and Dolan reported to the American Embassy in Chongqing they made clear they had been won over to the view that the United States should support Tibetan aspirations for independence from China. The Chinese Foreign Ministry officially complained. »
(en) Hugh Deane, « History Repeats Itself: The Cold War in Tibet », CovertAction Quarterly(en), vol. 29, No 2 (1987), pp. 48-50 : « In 1942 the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the predecessor to the CIA, sent two agents into Tibet - Ulya Tolstoy, emigre: grandson of Leo Tolstoy, and Brooke Dolan, another professional adventurer. Their principal mission was to search out transportation links between India and Yunnan and Sichuan provinces that would at least partially offset the loss of the Burma Road, severed by the Japanese. Their task also was to win high-level friendships in an area which OSS chief William J. Donovan predicted "will be strategically valuable in the future." He supported the opening of radio communication with Lhasa. The Tibetan leadership also had agents. When Tolstoy and Dolan reported to the American Embassy in Chongqing they made clear they had been won over to the view that the United States should support Tibetan aspirations for independence from China. The Chinese Foreign Ministry officially complained. »
