#1183 – Dave Ratcliffe, Col. Prouty

 

  • Col. Prouty’s 107th birth anniversary on 24 January
  • Dave recalls how he met with Col. L. Fletcher Prouty through John Judge
  • Dave’s website: www.ratical.org
  • FREE Online EbookThe Secret Team by Col. L. Fletcher Prouty (1973)
  • FREE Online Ebook: (html version) Understanding Special Operations, And Their Impact on Vietnam War Era
    1989 Interview with L. Fletcher Prouty, Colonel USAF (Retired) by David Ratcliffe (1999)
  • How the secret team infiltrated various US govt agencies
  • Downloadable Video: Why Col. Prouty never had to sign a CIA oath of secrecy clearance
  • The Collected Works of Col. Prouty CD-ROM available for direct download here for just $30
  • Part B: Col. Fletcher Prouty with Sean Mackenzie; beginning at 45:30
  • The following is from a 1992 interview at the National Press Club
  • CIA involvement in the deaths of RFK and Martin Luther King?
  • Nobody could answer those questions honestly
  • The significant involvement is the suppression of normal court procedures
  • The power that can keep the State of Texas from carrying out the law
  • Wagoner Carr, J. Edgar Hoover, the Warren Commission
  • Fletcher travelled to another country to talk with a person
  • This person was eight or 10 inches behind Bobby Kennedy
  • A gun went off in this person’s right ear
  • Castro, Khrushchev, the Mafia, they don’t control Texas
  • Is the Rockefeller organization really the black hats?
  • Old John D., sent scientists to Geneva, oil was organic matter
  • (Congrès de nomenclature Chimique de Genève, 1892)
  • (Geneva Nomenclature Congress of 1892)
  • This sort of proved that oil was in short supply, with intrinsic value
  • The breakdown of Standard Oil (May 15, 1911) was paper work
  • The amount of money they control, they’re gonna have a say
  • Beef cattle, dairy, the Rockefellers have the American Breeders Service
  • Milk production, 10,000 quarts, up to 40,000
  • Oil did not come from the decomposition of formerly living matter
  • An ingredient of the Earth just like, rock or water
  • Rockefeller money moved in to Japan to rebuild the economy
  • The Rockefellers pull strings, make plans, control things
  • Why come forward with this confirmation?
  • High Treason: (Livingstone / Groden / Prouty 1989)
    The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy : What Really Happened
  • A discussion with Livingston about Kennedy’s Vietnam commitment of 16,000
  • NSAM 263 was to build down, NSAM 273 was to build up
  • Fletcher’s candor versus others who have kept their mouth shut
  • If one doesn’t choose to write about what he did …
  • A lot of what Fletcher did was to correct things he read
  • The Secret Team and the Games They Play, The Washington Monthly (05/1970)
  • The Secret Team: (Prouty 1973)
    The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World
  • Fletcher considered the book an autobiography
  • Philip Agee probably went to Switzerland with a ticket bought by CIA
  • Ellsberg, Les Gelb, the Pentagon Papers, pro-Agency
  • The CIA and Decision-Making (Cooper 01/1972), pure propaganda
  • Laurence Oliphant (1829-1888), Turkey, British Society of Psychical Research
  • Fletcher taught at Yale, Skull and Bones, George HW Bush, Bill Buckley
  • ONI is itself, not Navy really, the most powerful intelligence organization
  • OSS was under the JCS, not Intelligence, operational
  • Truman felt Intelligence was not coordinated, he abolished OSS
  • They preserved OPC, agents you just can’t cut off, under Frank Wisner
  • 1947 National Security ActDepartment of DefenseNational Security Council
  • CIA, the only operational word – coordination, not collection
  • Walter Bedell Smith, Moscow Ambassador, made head of CIA
  • The Dulles–Jackson–Correa Report, January 1, 1949
  • The brothers Dulles and the World Council of Churches
  • The brothers Dulles and Sullivan and Cromwell
  • Enormous business contacts in pre-war Germany
  • In 1944, Fletcher flew to Syria to pick up 750 Allied prisoners of war
  • There were German and Romanian Nazis with them, escorted by Frank Wisner
  • That was the first act of the Cold War, against our Russian ally
  • Iron Curtain, Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk speech (05/03/45)
  • Winston Churchill “The Sinews of Peace” speech, Fulton, Missouri (03/05/46)
  • Most writers write truth, it’s the machine that won’t take the truth
  • Smith, Wisner, Dulles, ignored the law, made CIA into an operational organization
  • Fletcher spent 10 interesting years in the banking business
  • American Bankers Association’s Committee on Automation Planning and Technology
  • Banks hold a leadership role in American society and this world
  • NSC knows you made that call and who you called
  • A word they don’t understand – illegal
  • NSA listens, they don’t ‘know’, they record, they sort it out later by desire
  • The Stanford Research Institute (SRI), ran the Energy Crisis
  • Center for Strategic and International Studies, the propaganda work
  • Fletcher does not find MJ-12 (Majestic 12) credible, the material doesn’t stand up
  • Report from Iron Mountain: On the Possibility and Desirability of Peace (Lewin 1967)
  • It’s a novel, he made it up, well that’s what he says
  • The statements he has in it, I heard in the Pentagon almost daily
  • The substance is true, he didn’t want to have to explain who was involved
  • Leonard Lewin on his book, New York Times Book Review, March 19, 1972
  • Operation Zapata: (Aguilar 1981)
    The “Ultrasensitive” Report and Testimony of the Board of Inquiry on the Bay of Pigs
  • A report written by General Maxwell Taylor to President Kennedy
  • The Cuba Study Group met down the hall from my office
  • The Iron Mountain subject matter is incomparable
  • If you have a way of getting rid of people, you at least have got to preserve the 144,000
  • Part : Col. Fletcher Prouty with Sean Mackenzie; beginning at 1:45:00
  • Discusses the law firm that hired him to review L Ron Hubbard military records
  • Part D: Malcomn Blunt beginning at 1:52:36
  • Imagine 2 people assigned from Pentagon to help the ARRB
  • Just like George Joaninndies assigned to help the HSCA
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