#1189 – Col. Fletcher Prouty

 

  • From the 1989 interview with Dave Ratcliffe
  • The National Security Act of 1947
  • The Creation of the National Security Council
  • The Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report
  • Opening the Door to CIA Clandestine Operations: Shifting NSC Oversight from Directing to Approving Plans
  • The Function of the Director of Central Intelligence: Coordinating Intelligence of the Government Intelligence Community
  • Clandestine Operations: Out of Control If Not Directed by the National Security Council
  • Four Categories of Military Personnel Employed by CIA
  • Final Chapter in the History of War Making: Going From Offense to Defense
  • The Threat of Nuclear Weapons: Making War Planning Obsolete
  • Creating a Manichaean Devil to Justify Spending $6 Trillion for a Cold War
  • Secret Team Foundations:Creation of the CIA Focal Point System Throughout The Government
  • The Power of Indirection – Military Units Financed and Controlled by the CIA
  • Secret Team Growth: Focal Point Personnel Assuming Broader Roles
  • Obtaining Everything Money Can Buy:The CIA Act of 1949 and
    Secretary of Defense Johnson’s paper on Covert Operations
  • Employing the System of Reimbursement To Fund Unaccountable Activities
  • Post WWII War Plans–CIA Begins Amassing Its Own Stockpile of Military Equipment
  • From the Chairman of the JCS On Down: “where the CIA was concerned
    there were a lot of things no one seemed to know”
  • The Importance of the CIA’s Deputy Director of Support (DD/S) Side of the Agency by the Time of the Bay Of Pigs
  • Congressional Non-Oversight of Agency Funding and Executive Branch Responsibility for CIA
  • The Significance of the Sense of Infallibility Leaders of the Agency Felt Imbued With
  • The ST Running A Government Of Reaction:Develop and Control
  • All Secret Intelligence,And Brief The President On It Every Day
  • Allen Dulles: Forging a Government of Reaction
  • Dispersion of the OSO, Creation of the Office of SACSA
  • DOD Adoption of a Counterinsurgency Role in the late Eisenhower Years
  • NSAM 55 – JFK’s Attempt to Get CIA out of Clandestine Operations
  • Chairman of the JCS: Exit Lyman Lemnitzer, Enter Maxwell Taylor
  • Bay of Pigs Post-Mortem and the Dynamics of Personality: Allen Dulles, Maxwell Taylor, & RFK
  • Bay of Pigs Report: Taylor’s Letter to the President & the Origin of NSAM 55-57
  • Understanding the Military Assistance Program (MAP)
  • The Little Red Book‘s Influence on General Stilwell and Lansdale
  • MAP as a Sensor to React To
  • MAP’s Ultimate Manifestation: Iran
  • The Secret Team: Far Beyond the Capability of the CIA
  • An Impossible Contradiction: Covert Operations Must Be Deniable