Prouty,L.F. The Secret Team. 1973
Prouty, L. Fletcher. The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of
the United States and the World. New York: Ballantine Books, 1974. 556 pages.
L. Fletcher Prouty is a retired Air Force colonel who served in the
Pentagon from 1955-1963 as the Focal Point liaison officer for Department
of Defense support of CIA covert activities. During the Kennedy years his
title was Chief, Special Operations Division, Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was
a briefing officer on various special assignments dating back to the Cairo
and Teheran conferences of 1943, and has also been a jet pilot and professor
of air science and tactics at Yale University. Since first writing on the
topic in May, 1970 for the Washington Monthly, he has made a persistent case
based on his own experiences that the CIA and other secret elites are out
of control. Prouty was portrayed as "Mr. X" in Oliver Stone's movie "JFK."
"The Secret Team" is Prouty's euphemism for those security-cleared
individuals in and out of government who react with paramilitary plans and
activities, directly or through proxies, to data provided by the CIA and
NSA. "It is a bewildering collection of semipermanent or temporarily
assembled action committees and networks," whose power "derives from its
vast intragovernmental undercover infrastructure and its direct
relationship with great private industries, mutual funds and investment
houses, universities, and the news media, including foreign and domestic
publishing houses."
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