Fletcher Prouty person
also: Colonel Fletcher Prouty, Prouty, Colonel, Colonel Prouty, Air Force Colonel Fletcher Prouty
Explore in graph → Export claims (CSV) ↓
Related entities (most co-mentioned)
The Secret Teambook · 3Cubacountry · 2Tibetcountry · 2CIAintelligence service · 2Vietnamcountry · 2Richard M. Bissell Jr.person · 1Washington, D.C.place · 1Fulgencio Batistaperson · 1Pentagonorganization · 1Air Americaorganization · 1Maxwell D. Taylorperson · 1Havanaplace · 1Key Westplace · 1Edward Lansdaleperson · 1Colonel Stanley Beerlyperson · 15412 Grouporganization · 1Graves Erskineperson · 1The Craft of Intelligencebook · 1Jason Bournebook · 1Allen Dullesperson · 1Taylor Commissionevent · 1Dwight D. Eisenhowerperson · 1Fidel Castroperson · 1Chinacountry · 1
Claims (6)
Fletcher Prouty member_of
Pentagon Office of Special Operations host_asserted
“the Air Force colonel who worked with General Erstein's Office of Special Operations. He was the Joint Chiefs of Staff in that trio of people that you work with that we were just talking about. This reluctance to discuss Tibet is undoubtedl…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 36:46
Fletcher Prouty member_of
Joint Chiefs of Staff host_asserted
“the Air Force colonel who worked with General Erstein's Office of Special Operations. He was the Joint Chiefs of Staff in that trio of people that you work with that we were just talking about. This reluctance to discuss Tibet is undoubtedl…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 36:46
Fletcher Prouty member_of
Graves Erskine book_quoted
“He had managed secret air missions for General Erston's Office of Special Operations. Evidence indicate a steady growth in CIA interest in the area of Tibet. There were meetings recounted by George Patterson, former CIA officer, recalled th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 36:04
Fletcher Prouty appointed
CIA documented
“which was awarded to Colonel Fletcher Prouty on the air staff for coordinating all of it. For the first Tibetan supply drop in July of 58, the agency replaced the Air Force crew with a civil air transport crew, meaning CIA. In a revealing c…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 13:58
Fletcher Prouty exposed
United States guest_asserted
“His book, interestingly enough, there was a couple of things like the pre-order of the body bags for Guyana that he did what I would say exposed something that was not prior known. But generally speaking, I would assess him as like a 95% ga…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 7 @ 1:06:51
Fletcher Prouty exposed
CIA host_asserted
“I just want to also say that it was I think it was wasn't it Fletcher Prouty who talked about how where they came up with the origin of the term fossil fuels. It was at some convention. Yeah. Yeah. So that was fine. Yeah, it was. They were …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 5 @ 1:20:17
Mentions (20)
▶ 34:37
Tallying in dollars, Indonesia was the next largest Vietnam, according to the CIA logistical operator in 1958, Colonel Fletcher Prouty. In personal correspondence, Prouty said, quote, Indonesia's campaign was the largest special operations …
▶ 35:05
Prouty said that Dulles had employed a vast number of operatives, utilized ships, planes, submarines, and even the Pacific Fleet. Much of the funding was on operations for the 1958 rebellion, but in addition, there were funding for radical …
▶ 1:26:14
that Colonel Towner opened my eyes concerning what was really going on. Now, of course, I had my own suspicions as time went by, but not enough to really question anything about what we were doing. So when you put it in that light, and I un…
▶ 1:34:00
what happened to those people. Let's see. Avel? A-A-V-E-L-L-E. Go ahead. Hi. Yeah, it's Avel. Thank you, Colonel. I have missed a lot of your sessions and I'm trying to catch up with them on your page. But as I listen here, I'm thinking of …
▶ 1:36:26
stewards of the truth so try to be a good steward everyone thank you um carrie yeah i just wanted to say i love you colonel and i think when i was first starting to listen to you i was like okay colonel yeah that's a lot of information you'…
▶ 1:37:26
an actionable plan of things that we could in fact do and make a huge difference. Obviously, education is fundamental to that long-term goal. I think it's imperative that we know our real history. Again, my story is the same story.…
▶ 1:41:07
And I think that's something that's a legacy for all of us that are here to give not only our family and friends, but those people in our social groups as well as the next year unfolds. And I just want to add one thing, not that there's any…
▶ 36:16
to know all of the details, the appropriate records remain classified. Why would that be? It's not for the courts. In fact, the entire discussion of Tibet in a book called The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence would have been deleted by the …
▶ 17:15
An officer on his staff, Air Force Colonel Fletcher Prouty, who we all know, recounts that a copy of the 541-2-2 memo filled with them contained the president's handwritten notation that equipment delivered to the CIA be limited to that whi…
▶ 35:32
routed, the Chinese lost 7,000 to 8,000 troops. Even today, it is not yet possible to provide a detailed analysis of the Washington's decision-making on Tibet. The records remain classified. Tibet remains buried in the lore of CIA as one of…
▶ 13:58
which was awarded to Colonel Fletcher Prouty on the air staff for coordinating all of it. For the first Tibetan supply drop in July of 58, the agency replaced the Air Force crew with a civil air transport crew, meaning CIA. In a revealing c…
▶ 31:02
At CIA headquarters in New York on 1959, there was a subdued atmosphere as members of key people sat around the table awaiting news from Havana. Fletcher Prouty represented the Pentagon at the seance, which took place the day and the hour t…
▶ 35:41
And without them, there's no way they can hold off Castro. For its part, the CIA became involved in at least four different plots. Colonel Prouty's group at Quarters Eye on December 31st, 1958, sat there because a U.S. aircraft, a Hilo cour…
▶ 10:23
that the group should listen to him. Months later, when CIA Airboss Stan Beerly told an investigating panel that the agency had had to fight for every single thing it got out of the Pentagon, the complaint really referred to Lansdell and hi…
▶ 40:37
but he failed to halt the White House momentum that was building for Dulles' termination. The battle over Dulles' future as CIA director came to a head during a presidential investigation of the Bay of Pigs, a few days after the failed inva…
▶ 1:05:57
books on Colonel Fletcher Prouty, but he was in this whole, all this theater in this timeline, correct? I'm just curious of your opinion of him. I think you shared briefly one time, you're a little uncertain, but every now and then I come a…
▶ 1:06:21
he was present during all this stuff. And just curious your thoughts on him, please. So he seems to have been only willing to, number one, he didn't do anything while he was on the inside. He was a willing participant. And while his, the bi…
▶ 1:06:51
His book, interestingly enough, there was a couple of things like the pre-order of the body bags for Guyana that he did what I would say exposed something that was not prior known. But generally speaking, I would assess him as like a 95% ga…
▶ 1:07:18
He was willing to talk about things after they were well known. He was not really what we would refer to as a whistleblower or exposing this. So he has interesting information. It's just not breaking new things. He was only willing to talk …
▶ 1:20:17
I just want to also say that it was I think it was wasn't it Fletcher Prouty who talked about how where they came up with the origin of the term fossil fuels. It was at some convention. Yeah. Yeah. So that was fine. Yeah, it was. They were …