Hawk: re: Conspiracy Theories...
The intellectually impotent and the emotionally crippled,
who want to cling to a child-like view of the world, and
who can't handle the truth, won't want to read this book.
But for those who can handle the truth, this is a "top five"
must read book on understanding how America really works,
and has worked, for a long time.
"The Secret Team"
By Lt. Col. Fletcher Prouty
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From his bio:
"The author is USAF Lt. Colonel Fletcher Prouty. He was the
personal pilot for General Omar Bradley in World War II.
He flew Chiang Kai-Shek to the Tehran Conference. He was also
selected to personally fly General Douglas MacArthur's bodyguard
team into Tokyo. He later went to work for the OSS, the predecessor
to the CIA.
In 1946 Prouty was assigned by the U.S. Army to Yale
University (Skull & Bones). In 1950 he established Air Defense
Command and during the Korean War was based in Japan where he
was Military Manager for Tokyo International Airport.
In 1955 Prouty was assigned to coordinate operations between
the USAAF and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). For the
next nine years he worked for the Pentagon. He was Briefing
Officer for the Secretary of Defense (1960-61), Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Chief of Special Operations
(1962-63).
Colonel Prouty retired from the United States Air Force
(USAAF) in 1964 and was awarded the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Commendation Medal. He later worked for the General Aircraft
Corporation (1964-65) and First National Bank (1965-68).
In 1973 Prouty published his book "The Secret Team." In this
controversial work Prouty claimed that the CIA had worked on
behalf of the interests of a "high cabal" of industrialists
and bankers."
The "Mr. X" character played by Donald Sutherland in
Oliver Stone's film - JFK, was based on Prouty...
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Lt. Col. L. Fletcher Prouty USAF (Ret.)
Link to Prouty's official archives and research site:
prouty.org
"The Col. L Fletcher Prouty Reference Site is a focal point
where researchers can locate and retrieve articles, books,
videos, and tapes on a variety of subjects which Fletcher
has written and participated in.
Col. Prouty spent 9 of his 23 year military career in the
Pentagon (1955-1964): 2 years with the Secretary of Defense,
2 years with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and 5 years with
Headquarters, U.S. Air Force. In 1955 he was appointed the
first "Focal Point" officer between the CIA and the Air Force
for Clandestine Operations per National Security Council
Directive 5412. He was Briefing Officer for the Secretary of
Defense (1960-1961), and for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff.
At times he would be called to meet with Allen Dulles and John
Foster Dulles at their home on highly classified business. He
was assigned to attend MKULTRA meetings. In this capacity Col.
Prouty would be at the nerve center of the Military-Industrial
Complex at a time unequalled in American History.
He has written on these subjects, about the JFK assassination,
the Cold War period, and Vietnamese warfare, and the existence
of a "Secret Team". He backs up his his work with seldom seen
or mentioned official documents - some never before released.
Fletcher Prouty offers a rare glimpse of the "Power Elite" as
described by Buckminster Fuller, or "The High Cabal" as
Winston Churchill refered to them; and how they really
operate.
Those who have not been in a position to witness events such
as these from the inside would not understand how invisible
but ultimately effective they and their power structures are."
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From Chapter I
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The "Secret Team" -- The Real Power Structure
"The most remarkable development in the management of America's
relations with other countries during the quarter-century since
the end of World War II has been the assumption of more and
more control over military, financial and diplomatic operations
at home and abroad by men whose activities are secret, whose
budget is secret, whose very identities as often as not are
secret -- in short, by a Secret Team whose actions only those
implicated in them are in a position to monitor and to understand.
For the purposes of this historical study, the choice of the
word "Team" is most significant. It is well known that the
members of a team, as in baseball or football, are skilled
professionals under the direct control of someone higher up.
They do not create their own game plan. They work for their
coach and their owner. There is always some group that manages
them and "calls the plays". Team members are like lawyers and
agents, they work for someone. They generally do not plan
their work. They do what their client tells them to do.
For example: this is true of agents in the Central Intelligence
Agency. It is an "Agency" and not a "Department" and its
employees are highly skilled professionals who perform the
functions their craft demands of them. Thus, the members of
the highest level "Secret Team" work for their masters despite
the fact that their own high office may make it appear to
others that they, themselves are not only the Team but the
Power Elite.
This recalls a story related by the Rt. Hon. Lord Denning,
Master of the Rolls, of Great Britain, during WW II.
Winston Churchill had left the Admiralty to become Prime
Minister. Frequently he would come down to the Admiralty
basement on his way from #10 Downing Street, to his
underground, bomb-proof bedroom.
He made it his practice to visit the Officer in Charge for up-
to-date Intelligence and then stroll into the Duty Captain's
room where there was a small bar from which he sometimes
indulged in a night-cap, along with his ever-present cigar.
On this particular night there had been a heavy raid on
Rotterdam. He sat there, meditating, and then, as if to
himself, he said, "Unrestricted submarine warfare,
unrestricted air bombing -- this is total war."
He continued sitting there, gazing at a large map,
and then said:
"Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal
have made us what we are."
This was a most memorable scene and a revelation of reality
that is infrequent, at best. If for the great Winston
Churchill, there is a "High Cabal" that has made us what we
are, our definition is complete.
Who could know better than Churchill himself during the
darkest days of World War II, that there exists, beyond
doubt, an international High Cabal?
This was true then. It is true today, especially in these times
of the One World Order. This all-powerful group has remained
superior because it had learned the value of anonymity.
For them, the Secret Team and its professionals operate.
The CIA did not begin as a Secret Team, as a "series of tiny
but powerful cabals", as the "invisible government", or as
members of the "secret elite". But before long it became a bit
of all of these.
President Truman was exactly right when he said that the CIA
had been diverted from its original assignment. This diversion
and the things that have happened as a result of it will be
the subject of the remainder of this book."
-- Lt. Col. L. Fletcher Prouty
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We didn't listen to Eisenhower.
We didn't listen to JFK.
And we won't listen to Congressman Ron Paul's warning,
that there has been a literal coup d'etat of the US
government by the CIA's "secret team," on behalf of
the international banking & multi-national corporatist
cabal it serves...
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Those without the need to know, will be given their
talking points, and they will dutifully carry out their
assigned tasks, unaware of both whom they really
serve, and the damage they are doing to their country.
Read the book.
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