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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










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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.astridmm.com/prouty/

For people interested in The Secret Team in book form, work is underway to reprint this essential work but the details are still being worked out. Once finalized, they will be included here.

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
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 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

    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 . . ."

    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:

                   BIBLIOGRAPHY

                   INDEX





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