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"The Dalai Lama will never change his 'middle way' (of more autonomy but not independence) and or the path of non-violence," 73-year-old Norbu Dorje, who was trained by the CIA nearly half a century ago, said.
"Most Tibetans will follow what the Dalai Lama says, but there are many young people who want to demonstrate violently.
But this will not work," he said.
A year before the Dalai Lama fled Tibet after a failed uprising against the Chinese in 1959, Dorje joined the fledgling Tibetan resistance movement at the age of 23.
Twelve months after joining, he was selected to be clandestinely taken to a training camp in the United States where he said he was trained by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents in communications and guerrilla warfare.
Dorje spent 14 years waging a war from inside Nepal's border with Chinese-controlled Tibet, but these days he is a firm believer that trying to fight the Chinese will achieve nothing.
He hopes instead that countries might stay away from the Olympics due to be held in Beijing in August.
"I think people should boycott the Olympics," said Dorje, who recently retired as head of a Tibetan refugee camp in central Nepal.
"People have seen now what the Chinese are doing in Tibet and I think what people are seeing will increase our support.
Those who love peace should support us," he said.
The Dalai Lama knew only the outlines of the C.I.A.-assisted warfare carried on in his name. In 1995, when Knaus, just retired from the agency, asked him, ''Did we do a good or bad thing in providing this support?'' the Dalai Lama thanked the C.I.A. for organizing some of the guerrillas who protected him during his flight into Indian exile in 1959. But he told Knaus that 'thousands of lives were lost in the resistance and 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. Now is time for India to help Tibetans to gain independence and thus save our rivers from drying up as its catchment areas are in Tibet where China is planning to construct dams.. India can instill in Chinese a desire for democracy and the democracy in China will make that nation travel to the path of peace.
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