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"The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World" by L. Fletcher Prouty

The mystery behind all of this lies in the area we know as "Clandestine activity", "intelligence operations", "secrecy", and "cover stories", used on a national and international scale. It is the object of this book to bring reality and understanding into this vast unknown area.

From 1955 through 1963, if some official wanted a briefing on a highly classified subject involving the CIA, author would be one of those called upon to prepare the material and to make the briefing. At the same time, CIA wanted support from the Air Force for some covert operation, author was the officer who had been officially designated to provide this special operational support to the CIA.

Preparations for one of the most important of operations, covered in some detail in this book.

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TOC

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

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..."

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:

I. Definition of Special Operations

II. Powers and Duties of the CIA

III. Training Under the Mutual Security Program

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