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The Secret Team: The Cia And Its Allies In Control Of The United States And The World By L. Fletcher Prouty
The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World
By L. Fletcher Prouty
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: www.prouty.org
Here on radical, 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
The online copy of this book was made possible by the efforts and generosity of Len Osanic. We thank him for his support. Be sure to check out the details on the complete CD if you are interested in this book. There is a great deal to recommend it for anyone who wants to study the writings, interviews, and perceptions of Colonel Prouty. The significance of Prouty's level and depth of the first-hand experience of World War II and direct participation in the ensuing birth and rise of the National Security State is provided in great detail on The Collected Works CD.
CONTENTS
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'�tat 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
