The Long Riders' Guild

Bessac's Journal

Frank Bessac


I
n 1950, CIA agent Douglas MacKiernan and his young friend, former student turned espionage agent, Frank Bessec, found themselves being hunted across the Takla Makan desert by armed Chinese communists.  Their daring horseback escape across Western China and into Tibet, which they thought had led them to safety, ended in tragedy.  After fifty years, the Top Secret diary which Bessec kept during this amazing equestrian journey has been declassified by the American State Department and is offered to the public for the first time by The Long Riders' Guild.

Please click here to read these rare documents, now converted into a PDF file.

And here is a link to an excellent obituary of this amazing Long Rider in Britain's Daily Telegraph.

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