Prouty, L. Fletcher. The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World. New York: Ballantine Books, 1974. 556 pages.

L. Fletcher Prouty is a retired Air Force colonel who served in the Pentagon from 1955-1963 as the Focal Point liaison officer for Department of Defense support of CIA covert activities. During the Kennedy years his title was Chief, Special Operations Division, Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was a briefing officer on various special assignments dating back to the Cairo and Teheran conferences of 1943, and has also been a jet pilot and professor of air science and tactics at Yale University. Since first writing on the topic in May, 1970 for the Washington Monthly, he has made a persistent case based on his own experiences that the CIA and other secret elites are out of control. Prouty was portrayed as "Mr. X" in Oliver Stone's movie "JFK."

"The Secret Team" is Prouty's euphemism for those security-cleared individuals in and out of government who react with paramilitary plans and activities, directly or through proxies, to data provided by the CIA and NSA. "It is a bewildering collection of semipermanent or temporarily assembled action committees and networks," whose power "derives from its vast intragovernmental undercover infrastructure and its direct relationship with great private industries, mutual funds and investment houses, universities, and the news media, including foreign and domestic publishing houses."
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