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Operation Yellowbird
1989–1997 British Hong Kong–based operation
Operation Yellowbird
Operation Yellowbird (Chinese: 黃雀行動) or Operation Siskin was a British Hong Kong–based operation to help the Chinese dissidents who participated in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 to escape arrest by the Chinese government by facilitating their departure overseas via Hong Kong. Western intelligence agencies such as United Kingdom's MI6 and the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were involved in the operation. Other contributors included politicians, celebrities, business people and triad members from Hong Kong—forming the "unlikely" alliance which sustained the operation for most of its duration. The operation began in late June 1989, following an order by the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau on 13 June 1989 to apprehend the leaders of the Beijing Students' Autonomous Federation who were on the run. The operation continued until 1997, which coincides with the year that British Hong Kong was handed over to China. Yellowbird successfully helped more than 400 dissidents...
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