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THE SECRET TEAM


The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World

L. FLETCHER PROUTY Col., U.S. Air Force (Ret.)

Copyright © 1973, 1992, 1997 by L. Fletcher Prouty All Rights Reserved

March 1997: This 1997 edition of the book is available in its entirety on Len Osanic's

rip-roaring 1997 CD-ROM, The Collected Works of Col. L. Fletcher Prouty along with ~600MB of 70+ articles, 100 images, 30 topics and 6 hours of audio material. Read all about it and how to order your own copy by going to: http://www.prouty.org/ Here on ratical we will be hooking up the rest of the book in HTML and ASCII formats over the next 7 months. Each month will see the following chapters come online:
May: Chapters 3-6 June: Chapters 7-10 July: Chapters 11-15 August: Chapters 16-19 September: Chapters 20-23 October: Appendices I-III

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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Author's Note Preface Preface to the Second Edition Preface: "THE SECRET TEAM II" 1997

PART I
Chapter 1

THE SECRET TEAM

The "Secret Team" -- the Real Power Structure

Chapter 2

The Nature of Secret Team Activity: A Cuban Case Study

PART II
Chapter 3

THE CIA: HOW IT RUNS

An Overview of the CIA Section I. Intelligence versus Secret Operations Section II. Origins of the Agency and the Seeds of Secret Operations Section III. A Simple Coup d'État to a Global Mechanism

Chapter 4

From the Word of the Law to the Interpretation: President Kennedy Attempts to Put the CIA Under Control "Defense" as a National Military Philosophy, the Natural Prey of the Intelligence Community "It Shall Be the Duty of the Agency: To Advise, to Coordinate, to Correlate and Evaluate and Disseminate and to Perform Services of Common Concern . . ." Coordination of Intelligence -- the Major Assigned Role of the CIA Correlation, Evaluation and Dissemination of Intelligence: Heart of the Profession Services of Common Concern: An Attempt at Efficiency

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

From the Pines of Maine to the Birches of Russia: The Nature of Clandestine Operations CIA: "The Cover Story" Intelligence Agency and the Real-Life Clandestine Operator The Coincidence of Crises The Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report in Action

Chapter 8

Chapter 9 Chapter 10

PART III
Chapter 11 Chapter 12

THE CIA: HOW IT IS ORGANIZED

The Dulles Era Begins Personnel: The Chameleon Game

Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15

Communications: The Web of the World Transportation: Anywhere in the World -- Now Logistics by Miracle

PART IV

THE CIA: SOME EXAMPLES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19

Cold War: The Pyrrhic Gambit Mission Astray, Soviet Gamesmanship Defense, Containment, and Anti-Communism The New Doctrine: Special Forces and the Penetration of the Mutual Security Program Khrushchev's Challenge: The U-2 Dilemma A Time of Covert Action: U-2 to Kennedy Inaugural Camelot: From the Bay of Pigs to Dallas, Texas Five Presidents: "Nightmares We Inherited"




ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
. . . to Len Osanic and all at Bandit Productions for bringing all my work back to life. . . . to Patrick Fourmy, Dave Ratcliffe and Tom Davis, old friends who have insisted I revise and re-write this old "classic". . . . to Bill Mullan, Charlie Czapar, Bill Peters, and Dave Fleming, who worked with me in the Pentagon during the fifties, for those fascinating years with "Team B" in Headquarters,