THE SECRET TEAM

The CIA and Its Alliesin Control of the United States and theWorld

L. FLETCHER PROUTYCol., U.S. Air Force (Ret.)

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CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS || Author's Note || Preface || Preface to the Second EditionPreface: "THE SECRET TEAM II" 1997

PART I THE SECRET TEAM

Ch. 1 The "Secret Team" -- the Real Power StructureCh. 2 The Nature of Secret Team Activity: A Cuban Case Study

PART II THE CIA: HOW IT RUNS

Ch. 3 An Overview of the CIASection I. Intelligence versus Secret OperationsSection II. Origins of the Agency and the Seeds of Secret OperationsSection III. A Simple Coup d'État to a Global MechanismCh. 4 From the Word of the Law to the Interpretation: President Kennedy Attemptsto Put the CIA Under ControlCh. 5 "Defense" as a National Military Philosophy, the Natural Prey of theIntelligence CommunityCh. 6 "It Shall Be the Duty of the Agency: To Advise, to Coordinate, to Correlate andEvaluate 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 Servicesof Common Concern: An Attempt at EfficiencyCh. 7 From the Pines of Maine to the Birches of Russia: The Nature of ClandestineOperationsCh. 8 CIA: "The Cover Story" Intelligence Agency and the Real-Life ClandestineOperatorCh. 9 The Coincidence of CrisesCh. 10 The Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report in Action

PART III THE CIA: HOW IT IS ORGANIZED

Ch. 11 The Dulles Era BeginsCh. 12 Personnel: The Chameleon GameCh. 13 Communications: The Web of the WorldCh. 14 Transportation: Anywhere in the World -- NowCh. 15 Logistics by Miracle

PART IV THE CIA: SOME EXAMPLES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

Ch. 16 Cold War: The Pyrrhic GambitCh. 17 Mission Astray, Soviet GamesmanshipCh. 18 Defense, Containment, and Anti-CommunismCh. 19 The New Doctrine: Special Forces and the Penetration of the Mutual SecurityProgramCh. 20 Khrushchev's Challenge: The U-2 DilemmaCh. 21 A Time of Covert Action: U-2 to Kennedy InauguralCh. 22 Camelot: From the Bay of Pigs to Dallas, TexasCh. 23 Five Presidents: "Nightmares We Inherited"APPENDICES:I. Definition of Special OperationsII. Powers and Duties of the CIAIII. Training Under the Mutual Security ProgramBIBLIOGRAPHY || INDEX

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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 reviseand re-write this old "classic".. . . to Bill Mullan, Charlie Czapar, Bill Peters, and Dave Fleming, who worked with me inthe Pentagon during the fifties, for those fascinating years with "Team B" in Headquarters,U.S. Air Force.. . . to Charles Peters of The Washington Monthly for publishing the first "Secret Team"article, and Derek Shearer for breathing the whole concept into life.. . . to General Graves B. (the big "E") Erskine and General Victor H. ("Brute") Krulak, bothof the U. S. Marine Corps, my immediate "bosses" and good friends, in the Office of theSecretary of Defense and in the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for close personalrelationships that shaped the course of these events.. . . and to the hundreds of men with whom I shared these experiences and who mustremain nameless and silent because that is the "code" of their chosen profession.AUTHOR'S NOTE: 1997After I had given the manuscript of the original draft of this book to my editor at Prentice-Hall, in 1972; and had received the galley proof of the first edition back from him, hecalled me to suggest that I keep it in a safe place at all times. He told me that his homehad been broken into the night before, and he suspected it was an attempt to steal hiscopy of that galley proof. He said, "They didn't get it. It was under the seat of theVolkswagon."A few days later a nationwide release by the well-known Washington columnist, JackAnderson, appeared across the country, "

Book Bares CIA's Dirty Tricks

". In that column,Anderson reported that the CIA had contacted a well-known bookstore in Washington andasked one of the employees to see if he could get a copy of the galley from me, and agreedto pay him $500, if he did. I agreed to meet him at my home that evening.I suspected his call, but invited him anyway. In the meantime I set up a tape recorder in theumbrella stand near my front door and arranged for it to turn on when I switched on theoverhead light on the front porch. With that arrangement, I recorded the whole visitincluding his final burst, "They promised me $500.00, if I got that galley proof." I took thattape to Anderson, and it was the basis of his March 6, 1973 column. The underground attackdidn't quit there.After excellent early sales of The Secret Team during which Prentice-Hall printed threeeditions of the book, and it had received more than 100 favorable reviews, I was invited tomeet Ian Ballantine, the founder of Ballantine Books. He told me that he liked the book andwould publish 100,000 copies in paperback as soon as he could complete the deal withPrentice-Hall. Soon there were 100,000 paperbacks in bookstores all around the country.Then one day a business associate in Seattle called to tell me that the bookstore next to hisoffice building had had a window full of books the day before, and none the day of his call.They claimed they had never had the book. I called other associates around the country. Igot the same story from all over the country. The paperback had vanished. At the sametime I learned that Mr. Ballantine had sold his company. I traveled to New York to visit thenew "Ballantine Books" president. He professed to know nothing about me, and my book.That was the end of that surge of publication. For some unknown reason Prentice-Hall wasout of my book also. It became an extinct species.Online for educational purposes at: JAG 07-146: www.jagia-07146.co.nrPopulation Policy Geo-Politics 101: www.geo-politics-101.co.nr