(en) Dramatic Events in Lhasa : « A few days earlier, I had received a letter from His Holiness who was then at Lhuntse Dzong with some of His senior officials, trying to set up a temporary government there. The letter read in part : "You have led the Chushi Gandrug force with unshakeable determination to resist the Chinese occupation army for the great national cause of defending the freedom of Tibet. I confer on you the rank of 'DZASAK'(the highest military rank equivalent to General) in recognition for your service to the country. The present situation calls for a continuance of your brave struggle with the same determination and courage." »
(en) John B. Roberts II, The Secret War Over Tibet. A story of Cold War heroism -- and Kennedy administration cowardice and betrayal (archives du journal [1]), The American Spectator(en), décembre 1997 : « CIA -trained Chushi Gangdruk fighters were strategically deployed along a southern route leading from Lhasa across the Himalayas to India. Their orders were to prevent any Chinese pursuit, blocking key passes along the southern route, and fighting to hold them as long as necessary while the Dalai Lama and his entourage made their way to safety on horseback. »
(en) John B. Roberts II, The Secret War Over Tibet. A story of Cold War heroism -- and Kennedy administration cowardice and betrayal (archives du journal [1]), The American Spectator(en), décembre 1997 : « CIA -trained Chushi Gangdruk fighters were strategically deployed along a southern route leading from Lhasa across the Himalayas to India. Their orders were to prevent any Chinese pursuit, blocking key passes along the southern route, and fighting to hold them as long as necessary while the Dalai Lama and his entourage made their way to safety on horseback. »
(en) United States Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, Tibet (China): Information on Chushi Gangdruk (Gangdrug) : « Chushi Gangdruk was active as a CIA-trained and -backed armed resistance group in Tibet in the 1950s and 1960s (Associate Professor of Tibetan Studies 15 Jan 2003). For the Dalai Lama's flight from Tibet to India during the 1959 Tibetan insurrection against Chinese occupation, Chushi Gangdruk fighters were deployed from Lhasa in Tibet across the Himalayas into India in order to block Chinese pursuit of the Tibetan leader (Roberts 1997) (References : Associate Professor of Tibetan Studies, Indiana University. Email to the INS Resource Information Center (15 Jan 2003) - Roberts, John B. THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR, "The Secret War Over Tibet: A Story of Cold War Heroism -- and Kennedy Administration Cowardice and Betrayal" (Dec 1997) - NEXIS) ».
(en) John B. Roberts II, The Secret War Over Tibet. A story of Cold War heroism -- and Kennedy administration cowardice and betrayal (archives du journal [1]), The American Spectator(en), décembre 1997 : « CIA -trained Chushi Gangdruk fighters were strategically deployed along a southern route leading from Lhasa across the Himalayas to India. Their orders were to prevent any Chinese pursuit, blocking key passes along the southern route, and fighting to hold them as long as necessary while the Dalai Lama and his entourage made their way to safety on horseback. »
