Fletcher Prouty Tom Valentine interview
- His living history since WW2
- Liaison between JCS and CIA
- The death of JFK was a coup d’etat
- Humphrey “What have they done to us”
- Senator Moynahan pleaded for custody of Oswald
- Almost the entire cabinet was outside of U.S. when JFK was killed
- Pentagon Papers: Disinformation leaked by Ellsberg who worked under Ed Lansdale
- Ellsberg title was Civilain Pacifacation Specialist” in 1966
- Nixon had a Pepsi Cola link. Was in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963
- Nixon said he was not in Dallas
- The Pentagon Papers were mostly CIA papers. Fabrication of why U.S. went into Vietnam
- Made it look like it was a military initiative, when it was CIA all along
- General Dean “J3” Joint Chiefs of Staff “Operations” Chief not mentioned at all
- Pentagon Dept “ISA” International Security Administration
- Dr. John McNaughton was head and Ellsburg worked there both in office # 4E809
- McNaughton died in a plane crash July 19th 1967
- ISA Stored papers from USAID, CIA, White House & State Dept.
- Sherman Kent – CIA- “The Father Of Intelligence Analysis”
- Missing papers are the most important ones, and have misled historians
- The U.S. has too many weapons for peace
- Les Gelb signed off on the Pentagon papers on behalf of Robert McNamara
- He then works for New York Times
- Smedley Butler: War is a racket
- Ellsberg worked for Rand, a key war industry organization
- Gen. John W. Vogt, Gen. Russell Dougherty, Townsend Hoopes, Henry Cuss, Art Barber
- McNamara played a key role in the Pentagon Papers hoax
- CIA clandestine operations not revealed
- Ellsberg gave papers to Senator Fullbright, who worked to make them public
- Deep state behind the Vietnam War
- In 1970, U.S. troops entered Cambodia
- Ellsberg worked on leaking the papers to N.Y. Times
- They were made public in 1971
- Ellsberg sought to blame JFK for Vietnam
- McGovern claimed Ellsberg was a converted hawk
- “Should we have war crimes trials?” Neil Sheehan
- Ellsberg charged with security leak
- Secret Team, Cover and Deception: Expert spinners of information
- CIA started the war, claimed later it could not be won
- The Papers are accurate, but mislead by the omission of key documents
- Prouty saw the delivery of Bell helicopters in Laos under Eisenhower.
- Surprise visitor to the the Pentagon from Textron for Bell helicopter
- Choppers moved to Vietnam in 1960 – Billions were spent on helicopters
- JFK was announcing a withdrawal, which would be the end of Bell and Textron it Went against a war economy
- Change in Vietnam policy after JFK death, by LBJ, took place two days later and was implemented within 3 months
- Prouty was at the Pentagon from 1955-1964
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