Rev. Danny Fisher

Frank Bessac (pictured to the left in 2009 with His Holiness the Dalai Lama), the University of Montana anthropologist who was “one of two survivors of an epic and ill-fated trip led by the CIA in the early days of the Cold War which took him from the borders of Mongolia to the Tibetan capital Lhasa amid Great Game-style efforts to stymie communists both in China and in Russia,” has died. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have obituaries.