THE SECRET TEAM

The CIA and Its Allies
in Control of the United States and the World

by L. Fletcher Prouty

Col., U.S. Air Force (Ret.)
1973

from Ratical Website

 

 

 

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..."

Coordination of Intelligence -- the Major Assigned Role of the CIA

Correlation, Evaluation and Dissemination of Intelligence:  Heart of the Profession

Services of Common Concern:  An Attempt at Efficiency

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:

  1. Definition of Special Operations

  2. Powers and Duties of the CIA

  3. Training Under the Mutual Security Program

Bibliography