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Bessac's Journal Frank Bessac |
In
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.