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

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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Author's Note

Preface

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface: "THE SECRET TEAM II" 1997

PART I THE SECRET TEAM

Chapter 1 The "Secret Team" -- the Real
Power Structure
Chapter 2 The Nature of Secret Team Activity:
A Cuban Case Study

PART II THE CIA: HOW IT RUNS

Chapter 3 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

Chapter 5 "Defense" as a National Military

Philosophy,
the Natural Prey of the Intelligence
Community

Chapter 6 "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 7 From the Pines of Maine to the
Birches of Russia:
The Nature of Clandestine
Operations

Chapter 8 CIA: "The Cover Story" Intelligence

Agency
and the Real-Life Clandestine
Operator

Chapter 9 The Coincidence of Crises

Chapter 10 The Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report

in Action

PART III THE CIA: HOW IT IS

ORGANIZED
Chapter 11 The Dulles Era Begins

Chapter 12 Personnel: The Chameleon Game

Chapter 13 Communications: The Web of the

World
Chapter 14 Transportation: Anywhere in the
World -- Now

Chapter 15 Logistics by Miracle

PART IV THE CIA: SOME

EXAMPLES
THROUGHOUT THE
WORLD
Chapter 16 Cold War: The Pyrrhic Gambit

Chapter 17 Mission Astray, Soviet

Gamesmanship

Chapter 18 Defense, Containment, and Anti-

Communism

Chapter 19 The New Doctrine: Special Forces

and
the Penetration of the Mutual
Security Program

Chapter 20 Khrushchev's Challenge: The U-2

Dilemma

Chapter 21 A Time of Covert Action: U-2 to

Kennedy Inaugural

Chapter 22 Camelot: From the Bay of Pigs to

Dallas, Texas

Chapter 23 Five Presidents: "Nightmares We

Inherited"
APPENDICES:
I. Definition of Special Operations

II. Powers and Duties of the CIA

III. Training Under the Mutual

Security Program

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX