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Thomas Laird
Sunday 21 October 8:00 p.m. In November 2006, Grove Press, New York, and Atlantic Books, London, published Laird’s fourth book, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama, a popular history of Tibet, based on more than 60 hours of interviews with the Dalai Lama. That book is now being published in fourteen languages. Mick Brown of The Daily Telegraph said of the book "deeply absorbing... valuable and fascinating…Laird brilliantly weaves together the disparate strands of politics and religion... a more vivid and revealing portrait of the Dali Lama than any conventional biography."
Tuesday 23 October 6:00 p.m. Thomas Laid spent more than eight years researching and then writing a book about the life and death of Douglas Mackiernan, the first covert CIA officer ever killed. Mackiernan was shot dead in Tibet in April 1950, and CIA only began to acknowledge some of Mackiernan's activities in the year 2000. Laird offers evidence, after exhaustive research, that Mackiernan’s intelligence operations were a contributing factor to the timing of the Chinese invasion of Tibet in October 1950. Before Laird's book, "Into Tibet: The CIA's First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Lhasa", was published in 2002, no journalist had ever proven than any CIA agents were active in Tibet prior to the Chinese invasion.
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Thomas
C. Laird, a journalist and photographer, worked in Kathmandu, Nepal,
for thirty years. Since 2000, he has divided his time between there
and New Orleans. He was the Nepal correspondent for Asiaweek for a
decade as well as a stringer for Time and Newsweek. His work has
appeared in more than fifty publications from National Geographic,
The New York Times, Stern and The Independent to the South China
Morning Post. In November 2006, Grove Press, New York, and Atlantic
Books, London, published Laird’s fourth book, "The Story of Tibet:
Conversations with the Dalai Lama, a popular history of Tibet."
