Prouty,L.F. JFK. 1992
Prouty, L. Fletcher. JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate
John F. Kennedy. New York: Birch Lane Press, 1992. 366 pages. With an
introduction by Oliver Stone.
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."
When Eisenhower warned about the military-industrial complex, Prouty
was in a position to know what the outgoing president was talking about.
With the publication of this book, the opening scene in "JFK" and the
later interview with "Mr. X" are transformed from fleeting visual images
into a coherent impression that is based on Prouty's richly-detailed
experiences in the Pentagon. Prouty presents evidence that JFK was removed
because he wanted to curtail the CIA and get out of Vietnam, but those
responsible remain nameless and faceless, visible only in rough outline.
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