you know, I don't really agree that that is the case. I read 'that book' ,and what I got out of it was that we trained the heck out of as many Tibetans as we could find that were willing but they themselves were quite inept once put 'back in ' and most were killed right away. Neighboring nations (read:India) did not want to be involved and denied us air landing and support bases and our people had to fly all the way from Thailand for every mission (and back!) The UN turned it's face 100% as well. The CIA tried ,but under those circumstances it was an impossible feat . There was certainly no President Kennedy pulling the plug on ops , ala Bay of Pigs. If we made any mistake it was failing to have the OSS whack Mao when we had the chance , long before things went so far....
sorry , different book .
I trust this one:
The CIA's Secret War in Tibet
by Kenneth Conboy, James Morrison