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“Offers uncommonly penetrating insight.…A rare glimpse into Covert and Black Operations.—New York Times Bestselling author, Governor Jesse Ventura, from his Foreword.

The Secret Team, L. Fletcher Prouty’s expose´ of the CIA’s brutal methods of maintaining national security during the Cold War, was first published in the 1970s. However, virtually all copies of the book disappeared upon distribution, having been purchased en masse by shady “private buyers.” Prouty’s topics include:
President Kennedy tried to control the CIA.The nature of clandestine operations.The Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report in actionDefense, containment, and anti-communismKhrushchev’s Challenge: the U-2 dilemmaFrom the Bay of Pigs to Dallas.And much more!
Prouty’s allegations—such as how the U-2 Crisis of 1960 was fixed to sabotage Eisenhower–Khrushchev talk—cannot have pleased the CIA. The Secret Team appears once more with a new introduction by bestselling author, Governor Jesse Ventura.

“Like it or not, we now live in a new age of ‘One World.’ This is the age of global companies, of global communications and transport, of global food supply and finance and . . . just around the corner . . . global accommodation of political systems. In this sense, there are no home markets, no isolated markets and no markets outside the global network. It is time to face the fact that true national sovereignty no longer exists. We live in a world of big business, big lawyers, big bankers, even bigger moneymen and big politicians. It is the world of The Secret Team.”

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Skyhorse; 2nd edition (April 1, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 624 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1616082844
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1616082840
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.46 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.5 x 9 inches
Reviewer: Stephen Courts
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Secret Team (CIA) By Colonel Fletcher Prouty
Review: Though this book is now over 40 years old, I found the information very relevant and 100% trustworthy from one of America's true Patriots. Colonel Prouty served his country for decades as a pilot and as an integral part of the Department of Defense and CIA. Though for nine years Colonel Prouty was the liason between the Air Force and the CIA's clandestine affairs, he is able to reveal confidential information that would typically be classified "Top Secret", because Colonel Prouty did not work for the CIA and therefore did not have to sign a confidentiality agreement with the nefarious CIA.What is fascinating about Colonel Prouty is that he was everywhere throughout his career. He watched world affairs as they unfolded, meeting the most influencial leaders of his time. From FDR, Stalin, Churchill, Ike and every general and admiral in our military. For the nine years from 1954 to 1963, he was involved as the go to guy for the military leaders and the president, including both Ike and JFK. In other words, Colonel Prouty writes from personal and direct experience.Now the meat of the book is about the creation and abuses of the 1947 created CIA. From the end of World War Two until the mid 1970's, the CIA abused its primary responsibility of intelligence gathering to literally unchecked clandestine and covert upheavels in every part of the world. The CIA, particularly under Allen Dulles, created one coup d'etat after another. The reader will realize that from 1945 until the Marines reached the shores of Viet Nam in 1965, every piece of skulldruggery in Viet Nam was done by the CIA. The CIA had infiltrated the entire government, from the Department of Defense to the Department of State. Many people would be shocked to know that what passed as Defense activity was acually generals and admirals, wearing their uniforms and working for the CIA. Whether it was advising the President, subverting Ambassadors or lying to Congress, the CIA ruled and few knew what they were really doing. Colonel Prouty tells the stories accurately of every subversive, nefarious act the CIA was involved in. One example in particular stands out. It was Ike's goal at the end of his 2nd term as president to have a peace conference with the USSR, one to sign a peace treaty and end the cold war. In direct violation of the presidents specific instructions not to fly U-2 flights prior to the conference in June of 1960, the CIA flew the ill fated Gary Powers flight that guaranteed that the conference would go forth. This was a most important conference that could have brought nuclear peace accords decades before they were eventually signed. Dulles and his henchmen deliberately insured that Gary Powers not only violated the order not to fly these observations flights, they insured that it would be downed by sabotaging the flight and thus force Ike to either admit he knew or fire the bastards who embarrassed him. Ike chose to take responsibility and thus the peace talks were cancelled. There was also another flight in 1958 that was downed in the Soviet Union.Most Americans would be shocked to know the CIA has their own private air lines, Air America. This is no small air lines. Had Colonel Prouty written this book later, he could connect the CIA with the massive drug smuggling that has devastated American cities. They use the proceeds of this smuggling to finance their illicit involvement of other sovereign countries.Bottom line is this is an important book as is his 1993 JFK & Viet Nam. Colonel Prouty was a significant advisor to Oliver Stone and his masterpiece, JFK. I am currently finishing the rereading of said book. If you want to know who has controled our foreign policy (against the charter that created this monstrosity) since the mid 1940's, this is an excellent book to begin with. It is my personal opinion, having read many books on the CIA, that their main function is to serve the multi-national corportations and the bankers that exploit the less developed countries around the world and to insure that there will never be peace. There will not be a World War Three, because nuclear weapons would most likely be used and earth as we know it will cease to exist. Therefore, limited, no win conflicts will continually persist. Beginning with Korea, to Viet Nam, to Iraq to Afganistan. The irony is we are wasting our human resources and our treasury to bankrupt our country while both Russia and China sit back and spend zero (USSR & Afganistan is the exception) and develope the kind of infrastruture and consumer goods as well as education that we should be doing.Finally, the record of the CIA leaves a lot to be desired. There were many failures despite billions of dollars spent and the infiltration into every branch of our society, from education to media to think tanks to the military. Read this book and you will also discover the misadventure in Viet Nam that cost 58,000 plus American casualities, millions of Viet Namese, millions of service men who would never be the same after this debacle. Colonel Prouty explains this better than anyone I have yet to read. He predicted another debacle (Iraq & Afganistan) after the Viet Nam debacle. I believe Cononel Prouty passed away last decade, but he would not have been shocked by the rediculous misadventures in both of the above foremetioned countries. Think of the trillions of dollars and the bloodshed lost on a military misadventure that has no way of producing a positive outcome for the United States.Stephen CourtsAugust 7, 2012

Reviewer: Vic Currier
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: 40-years after the fact, Prouty is still required reading!
Review: This is NOT a "conspiracy theory" or fiction. Fletcher Prouty's "The Secret Team" could just as easily be titled "How the Deep State Became a Force For Evil." It could turn into a serious award-winning documentary. In 1991, producer-director Roger Stone tried it with his version based partly on Prouty's accounts, with the movie "JFK," but no one listened. Stone's film appeared in a renewed swirl of Secret Team / Deep State liberal BS "conspiracy" accusations during the Clinton White House falderal. Later, the movie "Air America" with Mel Gibson - told the authentic chain of events (via fiction) based on Prouty’s work; arms deals, hookers, cheap whiskey, opium, and the rest - as did his follow-up 2002 true story recorded in the movie "We Were Soldiers Once and Young" - bar none, the two most accurate portrayals of the middle and latter stages of the Vietnam War.Prouty's work is well documented, logical, thoughtful, and conclusive regarding the new Air Force and CIA founded in 1947 by the National Security Act. After my Vietnam Air Force experiences (more than two years, 1969-1971) as a daily briefer at the "wing command" and general officer level in Vietnam's II-Corps - where we followed the CIA down sometimes ridiculous and costly rabbit holes that led to over 58,000 dead Americans - and assisted our 5th Special Forces, MAC-V, and CIA's "Air America" - I would be pleased to sign an oath and "Affidavit of Truth" in support of Col. Prouty's ENTIRE account.Every officer and senior non-com above administrative and boots-on-the-ground squad levels - became trained liars for the US intelligence community. Anyone who disagrees, including high-ranking "veterans" who say differently - is lying. They must have learned their DoD counter-intelligence propaganda lessons well - especially if they tell you a different story while invoking the vague and trite, "I can't tell you for reasons of "national security." Everything we did in our 20-year history related to Vietnam (1953-1973) was filtered through the lens of political "plausible deniability" - everything - before it was reported to the public, and Prouty exposes it all. I was there. I saw it and, to my lasting shame, facilitated the lies I was fed unwittingly at age 24.“The Secret Team” is an easy read that I could not put down in the summer of 2022. It may be a shock to any reader born after 1960. If you want to know the truth about the CIA's sinister, planned conversion that began in 1953 by the hand of Allen Dulles and his deputies, Frank Wisner and Desmond FitzGerald six years after its inception (and the first CIA re-organization in 1950 by Bedell Smith and William Jackson) - through the so-called Afghanistan and Iraq "wars" - you will learn that ALL, not some, ALL wars are financed on both sides by the corrupt Wall Street actors and their elite masters in the European central banks - and the public be damned - all for blood-profits.

Reviewer: drohan00
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The information is invaluable.
Review: All one has to do to see what is going on in our government is to read this book and marvel at the ability of the ST to undertake action with precision and skill. Mr. Prouty's authority comes from the fact that he was the man who was liaison between the CIA and the Pentagon at the end of the Eisenhower era and through the Kennedy era.The detailed telling of the Bay of Pigs follows closely with how the United States got caught up in the Vietnam War and how our problems have only metastasized since that time. The planning of covert actions is necessary, and Mr. Prouty details cases where this is needed, but it can also lead to a cabal to take power of life and death away from the elected officials, which portends poorly for whatever Democracy we supposedly have.While the detailing of information is quite important, this book does have a type of circuitous writing style that works well in conversation, but can lose readers in its style of asides. That does not diminish for one second the service Mr. Prouty does by making this book available to the American public. The contents of this book should be required reading for all members of Congress.

Reviewer: Kindle-Kunde
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: In the realm of such issues often people don't have a deep inside knowledge but this author has and gives a well and insightful look into the workings of the CIA from world war II till the Vietnam war.

Reviewer: Gary Reid
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Excellent analysis of the beginning and continued actions of the most corrupt intelligence in the world.

Reviewer: john hertweck
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: WHO SAID THE RUSSIANS WERE THE ENEMY.

Reviewer: Luc REYNAERT
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This is an extremely important book. The proof of it is that even the official copy in the Library of Congress disappeared (!). Moreover, even after his death, the author continues to be the object of a smear campaign (see internet).His book is not less than a frontal attack on US intelligence and concomitantly on those who control it.Its portrait of Allen Dulles, a longtime intelligence director, says it all: `I am a lawyer'; in other words, a servant. But of whom?This book unveils the existence of a secret cabal, a Power Elite (G. William Domhoff), a `deep State' (P.D. Scott) within the US and its government as well as in about 40 host countries.This Power Elite uses the Secret Team of top intelligence and military commanders as its long arm and protects it. Together they stand above the law and the democratic process. They get things done, whether they have the political authorization or not.They dispose of a vast undercover political, military, intelligence, business, media and academic infrastructure, in the US as well as worldwide. They don't respect the nation State and are able to create, to influence and to topple governments in the hemisphere controlled by them.The author gives a remarkable insight into the inner workings, the logistics, the strategies and the tactics of the intelligence agency. Its creation and history show that President H. Truman never intended to create an autonomous operational agency in the clandestine field. L.F. Prouty also gives valuable information about the U2- G. Powers incident (apparently to torpedo the US/USSR peace talks) and the Pentagon papers (an intelligence whitewash).At the end, the author poses the all important question: `Can any President ever be strong enough really to rule?'This book is a must read for all those interested in US history and for all those who want to understand the world we live in.For more information on the Power Elite, I recommend the works of O. Tunander, D. Estulin, Peter Dale Scott, Carroll Quigley, Gary Allen and G. W. Domhoff.

Reviewer: Dajo
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Probably the best book on CIA i read. No whitewashing, everything you need to know about CIA and critiques other cia author books objectively (allen dulles, l.kyrkpatric..). Must read, mint condition book (collectible).