The Secret Team
by L. Fletcher Prouty · first published 1973
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Book Description The Secret Team : The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World The Secret Team, L. Fletcher Prouty's CIA exposé, was first published in the 1970s, but virtually all copies of the book disappeared upon distribution, purchased en masse by shady "private buyers." Certainly Prouty's amazing allegations—that the U-2 Crisis of 1960 was fixed to sabotage Eisenhower-Khrushchev talks, and that President Kennedy was assassinated to keep the U.S., and its defense budget, in Vietnam—cannot have pleased the CIA. Though suppressed (until now), The Secret Team was
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…is top notch, if you've read it you have a huge head start. I haven't read "The Mighty Wurlitzer", so thank you for the addition to the "to read" list. I would probably suggest Fletcher Prouty's "The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World". Another more superficial but still useful one is "The Brothers". To understand the OSS-MI6 connection, I like to suggest Carrol…
on “The CIA's Quest for Mind Control: Torture, LSD and a 'Poisoner in Chief'” ↗Anyone who is remotely surprised by this should read "The Secret Team" by L. Fletcher Prouty. Great book that gives some insight into the crazy stuff the CIA/NSC was doing 50 years ago.
on “U.S. government once wanted to plan false flag attacks with Soviet aircraft” ↗Recommended book on CIA, by someone who had to deal with them and the NSC during Vietnam War: The Secret Team, Col. Fletcher Prouty, 1972 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2438756.The_Secret_Team In full: https://un-forum.org/books/library/EBOOK%20COLLECTION%20(PAR... From intro: "For nine consecutive,…
on “America’s Open Wound” ↗…government [2]. Btw, Prouty discusses Ellsberg directly in his book. It is 'interesting' reading for sure. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Fletcher_Prouty [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Team
on “Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden and the Modern Whistleblower” ↗'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.) 1973 https://archive.org/details/pdfy-JnCrjsoqI22z8p9i
on “Secrecy, overclassification, and the the CIA’s hidden history” ↗