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Fletcher Prouty wrote
The Secret Team documented
document
“Fletcher Prouty The Secret Team EnglewoodCliffs Prentice-Hall 1978 pp 245-246…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.262
Robert D. Prouty authored
The Secret Team documented
“Prouty, a retired Air Force colonel who served as a Pentagon liaison with the CIA in the 50s and 60s and was author of The Secret Team. Although during Starnes' borrowing rampage at savings and loans and his contributions to the Contras, he…”
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Robert D. Prouty founded
The Secret Team host_asserted
“I think it's secret team, but I think he only wrote two, secret team and JFK, but anyway. Yeah, it would be secret team then. Martin Bott, go ahead. Yeah, hello. I think with the opium wars, we're seeing the same now in Western societies. S…”
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Richard M. Bissell Jr. book_quoted
The Secret Team host_asserted
“bed with the corporations. But go ahead. No, yeah, that wasn't really the point. So, you know, I read The Secret Team. It's been a while since I read The Secret Team. But I also remember when when Prouty was interviewed about that book and …”
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jim jones in the pre-ordering of the body bags before the people were actually murdered that is the only thing that was a new um otherwise unsourced piece of information and i mean his book's like 600 pages long so is that the secret team u…
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I think it's secret team, but I think he only wrote two, secret team and JFK, but anyway. Yeah, it would be secret team then. Martin Bott, go ahead. Yeah, hello. I think with the opium wars, we're seeing the same now in Western societies. S…
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bed with the corporations. But go ahead. No, yeah, that wasn't really the point. So, you know, I read The Secret Team. It's been a while since I read The Secret Team. But I also remember when when Prouty was interviewed about that book and …
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And number two, you talked in there about how there were people – people would question, well, how in the world can these military flights go here and not be questioned? If you read Prouty's secret team, he talks in there very specifically …
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Prouty, a retired Air Force colonel who served as a Pentagon liaison with the CIA in the 50s and 60s and was author of The Secret Team. Although during Starnes' borrowing rampage at savings and loans and his contributions to the Contras, he…
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Like he was going to the racetrack because he actually owned a racetrack. And one of the things that we found early on is because that's a gambling kind of casino type thing. Most of those people are dirty. And who's ill-fitting to pay. Aga…
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He went on to get involved in other deals with the Israelis, and then Shackley was free to be the sole conduit of Israeli information back into the United States intelligence community once again. So I just think, and obviously you guys can…
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by intelligence operators. Well, from material, from three CIA guys who died. They kept trunks and trunks. They were fired. They took trunks of information out of the CIA and sat on it. They eventually give it to Trento, the guy that wrote …
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Now, as I pointed out, there are some pieces of this that have somewhat of a spin on it. But to me, it was one of the most, and again, you guys know I've read lots of books on this. This was one of the most eye-opening books about the bowel…
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That develop and there will be people like evidently Inman, which we came across him in the USS Liberty story as well as being one of the good guys that they will use as a front. So that's the reason why you can't like paint everybody with …
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They wouldn't want him talking because it was them that put him there the first place. So that makes a lot more sense. In terms of Shane Kyshek losing the Peninsula, I know you've read The Secret Team by Prouty. He talks in there about how …
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the best way to do this is we're going to go through the introduction because it pretty much takes us, gives us an overview, and then I'm going to just sporadically cover some of the stuff in this book. My assessment of the book is that…
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All of the facts that he presents as facts prove with critical research to be true. That's not the case with all of these books. That's number one. Number two, this book was written in 1978. Obviously, we know a lot of things he does not.…
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And that's why going through the whole book would be ridiculous, especially since this book is quoted extensively in the book we just finished. So we're not going to do that. But I do want to give the author his due because he is the one th…
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to address any of the mechanisms behind the scene that allowed that to happen. It was as if it was exposed and people just moved on, saying, oh, now that we've exposed it, it's going to go away. But you didn't change anything that created i…
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who he says normally dresses like a French banker. He radiated presence. He had an authority about him. The author spoke with Mayhew many times, and the material produced from those interviews is spattered throughout this entire book.…
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against one of the world's wealthiest and most glamorous men. With CIA officers, freelance secret agents, and others at his command, the reporter shuttled between European capitals on his silent mission, while spooks at home supported his o…
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John Frank, he used an alias John Kane, and he's touted as a quote-unquote former CIA officer, but not a lot was known about him. But he does show up in the book a couple of times. Bell, Mayhew, Warbell, and the others, they seem implausibl…
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That was John Muldoon. He was a retired CIA guy, ending a career of overseas service that saw him posted in Scandinavia, Germany, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and Korea. So guess what he was doing? He liked to show up in some very interesting p…
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The Post publisher was the only person that was billed to America as liberal that was spied upon. There was a man by the name of Stuart Mott, who was portrayed as an angel of the American left, according to the author, was for years the sec…
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Obviously, laws are broken, scams are set up, bag jobs happen, bribes happen, wiretaps, mostly illegal, deception operations, industrial espionage, tax fraud, even assassination programs. He then mentions that Senator William Proxmire…
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Private investigation, intelligence, nothing. It was listed as a management consultant. Okay, so under surveillance, he says that there's a company called Sabre Laboratories whose president is Leo Jones. And he says that he is correct when …
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is in the late 70s general motors lordstown ohio workers don't realize that they were up against intertel as well as general motors during their 1972 strike huh interesting he said should we apply for credit or a job the metropolitan bureau…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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His central role in what would later blossom into the Iran-Contra, literally after he'd been fired. And finally, Shackley's alleged role in the creation of what's called a secret team, which was an off-the-books group of former CIA assassin…