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This title in other editionseBook editionsThe Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the Worldby L Fletcher Prouty
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The Secret Team, L. Fletcher Prouty's CIA exposé, was first published in the 1970s, but virtually all copies of the book disappeared upon distribution, purchased en masse by shady "private buyers." Certainly Prouty's amazing allegations--that the U-2 Crisis of 1960 was fixed to sabotage Eisenhower-Khrushchev talks, and that President Kennedy was assassinated to keep the U.S., and its defense budget, in Vietnam--cannot have pleased the CIA. Though suppressed (until now), The Secret Team was an important influence for Oliver Stone's Academy Award-winning film JFK and countless other works on U.S. government conspiracies, and it raises the same crucial question today that it did on its first appearance: who, in fact, is in control of the United States and the world? Book News Annotation:Having served as an Air Force liaison officer between the Pentagon
and the Central Intelligence Agency from 1955 to his retirement in
1964, charged with creating an Air Force world-wide system for
"Military Support of the Clandestine Operations of the CIA" pursuant
to 1954's National Security Council Directive 5412 and, later, with
creating a similar office for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Col. L.
Fletcher Prouty would become intimately familiar with the operations
of what he calls the "Secret Team," those security-cleared
individuals in and out of government privy to secret intelligence
data and empowered to act on that data with paramilitary plans and
activities. First published in 1973, this work by Prouty is a wide-
ranging exposé of the "Secret Team" and makes a number of surprising
accusations. These include the charges that the U2 incident of 1960
was arranged to sabotage US-Soviet negotiations, that President
Kennedy was assassinated to prevent US withdrawal from Vietnam, and
that the CIA maintains its own stockpiles of weapons in the US and
around the world.
Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:"L. Fletcher Prouty is a man whose name will go down in history."--Oliver Stone About the AuthorL. Fletcher Prouty (1917-2001), a retired colonel of the U.S. Air Force, served as the chief of special operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Kennedy years. He was directly in charge of the global system designed to provide military support for the clandestine activities of the CIA. He was also the author of The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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