14th Dalai Lama

== CIA Tibetan program ==
{{main|CIA Tibetan program}}
In October 1998, the Dalai Lama's administration acknowledged that it received $1.7&nbsp;million a year in the 1960s from the U.S. government through a [[CIA Tibetan program|Central Intelligence Agency program]].<ref name="tnyt 10-2-1998">{{cite news |title = World News Briefs; Dalai Lama Group Says It Got Money From C.I.A. |url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F3061EF73E5C0C718CDDA90994D0494D81&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fD%2fDalai%20Lama |date = 2 October 1998 |work = The New York Times |access-date = 24 November 2005 |archive-date = 28 January 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110128073617/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F3061EF73E5C0C718CDDA90994D0494D81&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FPeople%2FD%2FDalai%20Lama |url-status = live }}</ref> When asked by CIA officer John Kenneth Knaus in 1995 to comment on the [[CIA Tibetan program]], the Dalai Lama replied that though it helped the morale of those resisting the Chinese, "thousands of lives were lost in the resistance" and further, that "the U.S. Government had involved itself in his country's affairs not to help Tibet but only as a Cold War tactic to challenge the Chinese."<ref>{{cite book |author = William Blum |url = http://members.aol.com/superogue/intro.htm |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080321053809/http://members.aol.com/superogue/intro.htm |archive-date=21 March 2008 |title = Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower |publisher = Zed Books|year=2006 |access-date = 2 May 2010}}</ref> As part of the program the Dalai Lama received 180,000 dollars a year from 1959 till 1974 for his own personal use.<ref>{{cite book |title=Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development and Society in a Disputed Region |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge}}</ref>

His administration's reception of CIA funding has become one of the grounds for some state-run [[Chinese newspapers]] to discredit him along with the Tibetan independence movement.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

In his autobiography ''[[Freedom in Exile]]'', the Dalai Lama criticised the CIA again for supporting the Tibetan independence movement "not because they (the CIA) cared about Tibetan independence, but as part of their worldwide efforts to destabilize all [[communist]] [[Executive (government)|governments]]".<ref>{{cite news|title = CIA Gave Aid to Tibetan Exiles in '60s, Files Show|url = https://articles.latimes.com/1998/sep/15/news/mn-22993|work = [[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date = 8 September 2013|quote = In his 1990 autobiography, 'Freedom in Exile', the Dalai Lama explained that his two brothers made contact with the CIA during a trip to India in 1956. The CIA agreed to help, 'not because they cared about Tibetan independence, but as part of their worldwide efforts to destabilize all Communist governments', the Dalai Lama wrote.|first = Jim|last = Mann|date = 15 September 1998|archive-date = 11 September 2013|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130911061410/http://articles.latimes.com/1998/sep/15/news/mn-22993|url-status = live}}</ref>

In 1999, the Dalai Lama said that the CIA Tibetan program had been harmful for Tibet because it was primarily aimed at serving American interests, and "once the [[Foreign policy of the United States|American policy]] toward China changed, they stopped their help."<ref>{{cite web |first=Jonathan |last=Mirsky |title=Tibet: The CIA's Cancelled War |url=http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/apr/09/cias-cancelled-war-tibet/ |work=[[The New York Review of Books]] |date=9 April 2013 |access-date=3 November 2013 |archive-date=5 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905190033/http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/apr/09/cias-cancelled-war-tibet/ |url-status=live }}</ref>