The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World
“Offers uncommonly penetrating insight.…A rare glimpse into Covert and Black Operations.—New York Times Bestselling author, Governor Jesse Ventura, from his Foreword.
The Secret Team, L. Fletcher Prouty’s expose´ of the CIA’s brutal methods of maintaining national security during the Cold War, was first published in the 1970s. However, virtually all copies of the book disappeared upon distribution, having been purchased en masse by shady “private buyers.” Prouty’s topics include:
President Kennedy tried to control the CIA.
The nature of clandestine operations.
The Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report in action
Defense, containment, and anti-communism
Khrushchev’s Challenge: the U-2 dilemma
From the Bay of Pigs to Dallas.
And much more!Prouty’s allegations—such as how the U-2 Crisis of 1960 was fixed to sabotage Eisenhower–Khrushchev talk—cannot have pleased the CIA. The Secret Team appears once more with a new introduction by bestselling author, Governor Jesse Ventura.
“Like it or not, we now live in a new age of ‘One World.’ This is the age of global companies, of global communications and transport, of global food supply and finance and . . . just around the corner . . . global accommodation of political systems. In this sense, there are no home markets, no isolated markets and no markets outside the global network. It is time to face the fact that true national sovereignty no longer exists. We live in a world of big business, big lawyers, big bankers, even bigger moneymen and big politicians. It is the world of The Secret Team.”
Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: Skyhorse; 2nd edition (April 1, 2011)
The Pentagon Papers: The Secret History of the Vietnam War
“The WikiLeaks of its day” (Time) is as relevant as ever to present-day American politics.
“The most significant leaks of classified material in American history.” –The Washington Post
Not Fake News! The basis for the 2018 film The Post by Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg, The Pentagon Papers are a series of articles, documents, and studies examining the Johnson Administration’s lies to the public about the extent of US involvement in the Vietnam War, bringing to light shocking conclusions about America’s true role in the conflict.
Published by The New York Times in 1971, The Pentagon Papers riveted an already deeply divided nation with startling and disturbing revelations about the United States' involvement in Vietnam. The Washington Post called them “the most significant leaks of classified material in American history” and they remain relevant today as a reminder of the importance of a free press and First Amendment rights. The Pentagon Papers demonstrated that the government had systematically lied to both the public and to Congress.
This incomparable, 848-page volume includes:
- The Truman and Eisenhower Years: 1945-1960 by Fox Butterfield
- Origins of the Insurgency in South Vietnam by Fox Butterfield
- The Kennedy Years: 1961-1963 by Hedrick Smith
- The Overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem: May-November, 1963 by Hedrick Smith
- The Covert War and Tonkin Gulf: February-August, 1964 by Neil Sheehan
- The Consensus to Bomb North Vietnam: August, 1964-February, 1965 by Neil Sheehan
- The Launching of the Ground War: March-July, 1965 by Neil Sheehan
- The Buildup: July, 1965-September, 1966 by Fox Butterfield
- Secretary McNamara’s Disenchantment: October, 1966-May, 1967 by Hedrick Smith
- The Tet Offensive and the Turnaround by E. W. Kenworthy
- Analysis and Comment
- Court Records
- Biographies of Key Figures
With a brand-new foreword by James L. Greenfield, this edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning story is sure to provoke discussion about free press and government deception, and shed some light on issues in the past and the present so that we can better understand and improve the future.
About the Author
Neil Sheehan is the author of A Fiery Peace in a Cold War and A Bright Shining Lie, which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1989. He spent three years in Vietnam as a war correspondent for United Press International and The New York Times and won numerous awards for his reporting. In 1971, he obtained The Pentagon Papers, which brought the Times the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for meritorious public service. Sheehan lives in Washington, DC. He is married to the writer Susan Sheehan.
E. W. Kenworthy worked at The New York Times for nearly thirty years, in both New York and Washington. He passed away in January 1993.
Fox Butterfield is an American journalist and author. His work has been read and acclaimed widely, having received both a Pulitzer Prize for his role in publishing The Pentagon Papers and a National Book Award for China: Alive in the Bitter Sea.
Hedrick Smith is an American journalist, producer, and correspondent. During twenty-six years at The New York Times, he covered the civil rights struggle, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War, among many other monumental events in America history.
James L. Greenfield was the US secretary of state for public affairs as well as an editor for The New York Times for more than twenty years. He directly contributed to the publication of The Pentagon Papers and later founded the Independent Journalism Foundation.
Paperback: 848 pages
Publisher: Racehorse Publishing (December 12, 2017)
A crash course in the conspiracy field. Digests of ten works like A Century of War, Tragedy and Hope, The Creature from Jekyll Island, and Dope Inc. yield an across-the-spectrum, composite profile of the suspect. Each covers a different aspect of the hydra-headed conspiracy that manipulates mankind in many different, even contradictory guises: it's the Anglo-American power elite, hiding in plain view. Knowledge is power. Unmasking the tricks of the "wizard behind the curtain" offers us the way to neutralize its power, and get our destiny back on the right track.
Review
It's not a conspiracy theory if it is true... The author has culled a handful of books that support his case against a global financial elite... Focus on the relationship between organized crime and the super-elite, and on the relationship between drugs, covert operations, and Wall Street. -- Robert Steele "Amazon.com"
From the Author
We present in this book overwhelming evidence that the many misfortunes our country has suffered during this last century have not just happened by chance. We have researched the works of many writers seeking to find out WHO is impoverishing us, and WHY and HOW they are doing it. Our findings are presented via a series of in-depth reviews of a carefully selected set of books, mostly little-known but a few famous, written by others. Taken together, a coherent picture emerges which precious few among even our political activists understand. We finish by laying out a legislative program which will finally get at our real problems, instead of wasting our efforts on the minutia which the media and the present Congress are concerning themselves with.
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: ABJ Press (January 1997)
From the Back Cover
Does America have a hidden oligarchy? Is U.S. foreign policy run by a closed shop? What is the Council on Foreign Relations? It began in 1921 as a front organization for J.P. Morgan and Company. By World War II it had acquired unrivaled influence on American foreign policy. Hundreds of U.S. government administrators and diplomats have been drawn from its ranks - regardless of which party has occupied the White House. But what does the Council on Foreign Relations stand for? Why do the major media avoid discussing it? What has been its impact on America's past - and what is it planning for the future? These questions and more are answered by James Perloff in The Shadows of Power.
Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: Western Islands (November 1, 1988)
Drawing from a power elite perspective and the latest empirical data, Domhoff’s classic text is an invaluable tool for teaching students about how power operates in U.S. society. Domhoff argues that the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant figures in the U.S. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington and their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments. By providing empirical evidence for his argument, Domhoff encourages students to think critically about the power structure in American society and its implications for our democracy.
Paperback: 184 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1st edition (December 1967)
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful—and secretive—colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers.
America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on revelatory new materials—including newly discovered U.S. government documents, U.S. and European intelligence sources, the personal correspondence and journals of Allen Dulles’s wife and mistress, and exclusive interviews with the children of prominent CIA officials—Talbot reveals the underside of one of America’s most powerful and influential figures.
Dulles’s decade as the director of the CIA—which he used to further his public and private agendas—were dark times in American politics. Calling himself “the secretary of state of unfriendly countries,” Dulles saw himself as above the elected law, manipulating and subverting American presidents in the pursuit of his personal interests and those of the wealthy elite he counted as his friends and clients—colluding with Nazi-controlled cartels, German war criminals, and Mafiosi in the process. Targeting foreign leaders for assassination and overthrowing nationalist governments not in line with his political aims, Dulles employed those same tactics to further his goals at home, Talbot charges, offering shocking new evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
An exposé of American power that is as disturbing as it is timely, The Devil’s Chessboard is a provocative and gripping story of the rise of the national security state—and the battle for America’s soul.
About the Author
David Talbot is the author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years and the acclaimed national bestseller Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love. He is the founder and former editor in chief of Salon, and was a senior editor at Mother Jones and the features editor at the San Francisco Examiner. He has written for The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Time, The Guardian, and other major publications. Talbot lives in San Francisco, California.
Paperback: 720 pages
Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (September 6, 2016)
Dan Smoot's "Invisble Government" sold about 1 million copies through self-publishing alone, but it did not appear on the New York Times "Best Sellers List" of 1962. Essentially it is a book dealing with organization called The Council on Foreign Relations founded by Edward Mandel House, one of the Dullers brothers and others devoted to bringing "socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx.", to quote House, to this country. The writing is dry but effective. Had he lived, Senator Joseph McCarthy might have written this book himself since the Council is one of groups that he was getting into his sights before Eisenhower stopped him. What Dan Smoot revealed is how ITC control of the national medias is so pervasive that true and vital news seldom gets to the populace at large. Smoot's anaylsis of it's goals bear close attention for those who are interested in answering befuddling questions about U.S. foreign and domestic policies. Over twenty six years later "The Shadows of Power" by James Perloff, brought the CFR up to date, and the report on how this subversive organization has not been dealt with is not good! From what one may gather after reading "The Invisible Government" is how many lives have been ruined or lost in order to fulfill the dreams of a few determined to create a "New World Order". If you think this is only the stuff of Ian Flemming or H.G. Wells, Smoot's book goes a long way to prove otherwise.
About the Author
Dan Smoot (1913-2003) was an FBI agent and a conservative political activist. From the 1950s to 1971 , he published The Dan Smoot Report, which chronicled alleged communist infiltration in various sectors of American government and society. In 1970 , he opposed the selection of a future U.S. president, George Herbert Walker Bush, as the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Texas. He claimed that Bush's political philosophy was little different from the Democrats that he sought to oppose. Bush lost the Senate election that year to popular Democrat Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. In 1972 , Smoot opposed the reelection of Richard M. Nixon and served as campaign manager for American Independent Party presidential candidate John G. Schmitz of California.
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (December 31, 2013)
“Offers uncommonly penetrating insight.…A rare glimpse into Covert and Black Operations.—New York Times Bestselling author, Governor Jesse Ventura, from his Foreword.
The Secret Team, L. Fletcher Prouty’s expose´ of the CIA’s brutal methods of maintaining national security during the Cold War, was first published in the 1970s. However, virtually all copies of the book disappeared upon distribution, having been purchased en masse by shady “private buyers.” Prouty’s topics include:
President Kennedy tried to control the CIA.
The nature of clandestine operations.
The Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report in action
Defense, containment, and anti-communism
Khrushchev’s Challenge: the U-2 dilemma
From the Bay of Pigs to Dallas.
And much more!Prouty’s allegations—such as how the U-2 Crisis of 1960 was fixed to sabotage Eisenhower–Khrushchev talk—cannot have pleased the CIA. The Secret Team appears once more with a new introduction by bestselling author, Governor Jesse Ventura.
“Like it or not, we now live in a new age of ‘One World.’ This is the age of global companies, of global communications and transport, of global food supply and finance and . . . just around the corner . . . global accommodation of political systems. In this sense, there are no home markets, no isolated markets and no markets outside the global network. It is time to face the fact that true national sovereignty no longer exists. We live in a world of big business, big lawyers, big bankers, even bigger moneymen and big politicians. It is the world of The Secret Team.”
Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: Skyhorse; 2nd edition (April 1, 2011)
The Secret Team:
The CIA and Its Allies
in Control of
the United States and the World
BY
L. FLETCHER PROUTY
Col., U.S. Air Force (Ret.)
Copyright © 1973, 1992, 1997 by L. Fletcher Prouty
All Rights Reserved
INDEX
[The index has been included verbatim from the original book. Although the page numbers have no meaning here, it was felt the subjects noted are useful as a reference. The original chapter page numbers are listed below to facilitate cross-referencing]
Advisory functions of CIA, 140-47
Aerial reconnaissance, 151-53, 307-308
Africa, CIA bases in, 271
Air America, 174-75, 232, 280, 297-303
Air Defense Command (New York & Colorado), 162, 219-20
intelligence and, 168-69
Air Division (DD/P; CIA), 161-64
Air Force, U.S., 40-41, 72, 145
airlift of munitions for CIA by, 90, 161
B-29, 205
B-36 controversy and, 107-108
B-52 use of, 67-68, 162
CIA and, 232, 262-63
CIA Indonesia coup and, 140, 324
as a member of intelligence community, 141
P2V-7 aircraft and, 316-19
placed under DOD (1947), 127
Special Air Warfare squadrons of, 77, 138
U-2 affair and, 260-61
Air Operations (CIA), 316-18
Air Resupply and Communications (Air Force; ARC Wings), 161, 165, 221
CIA and, 247, 248, 311, 314
Air warfare, 122-23
Aircraft, use of in CIA coup d'etat, 8748
Airlines of CIA, 271
Air America, 174-75, 232, 280, 297-303
CAT, 232, 299
Alexander, Field Marshal Harold, 304
Algeria, 351
Aliens, illegal, CIA and, 277-78
Alsop, Joseph, 14, 182
Ambassadors, 143, 399-400
Military Aid Program and, 145
role in CIA communications of, 285-86
American Legion, 45
Amory, Bob, 201
Analysis Branch (OSS), 64
Anderson, Jack, 26
Anderson Papers (1971-72), 75-76
Anti-Communism, 2-3
creation of a coordinated central intelligence agency and 125-27, 202-207
expansion of CIA authority and, 136-38
"peacetime operations" of CIA and, 142-44
in Vietnam, 193
See also Communism; Cold War; Counterinsurgency
Appropriations of CIA, 277
Arab-Israeli War (1956), 348
Arango, Aureliano Sanchez, 45
Armed Forces, see Military, the
Armed Forces Staff College 214-15
Armored Forces, 122
Army, U.S., 144
CIA Indonesia coup and, 140
counterinsurgency connections with CIA and, 107
as a member of intelligence community, 141
placed under DOD (1947), 127
political-social-economic role of, 15, 87, 355-69, 394
separation of Air Force and, 72
See also Military Assistance Program (MAP); Special Forces
Arundel, Arthur, 196
Ashby, W. Ross, 227
Assistant to the Secretary for Special Operations
description of, 27-28
Atomic warfare, 64-65, 123-24
Attorney General, 277
B-26 (bomber), 41-42, 48-59, 324, 413
B-29, 205
B-36 (bomber), 107-108
B-47 (bomber), 154 B-52 (bomber), 67-68, 162, 218
Baker, Bobby, 88 Baldwin, Hanson W., 70-71
Bao Dai (Emperor of Vietnam), 58, 60
Barnes, Tracy, 44, 347, 393
Bay of Pigs (Cuba; 1961), 6, 8, 13
Board of Inquiry on, 104-14, 396
CIA and, 22-34, 37-52, 103-104
CIA preparations for, 382, 388-70, 392-93
Douglas on, 417-18
Berlin, 67, 370 Berlin Corridor, 153
Big Minh (Duong Van Minh), 7
Binh Dinh province, 360
Bissell, Richard, 50, 106, 116
1959 C-118 affair and, 331
U-2 project and, 156, 328, 372, 378
Bohanon, Charles, 196
Border flights, development of U-2, 152-57, 260-61,
314, 318-19, 320
Boston Globe, 26
Braun, Werner von, 349
British Special Operations Executive (SOE), 62
Budget of CIA, 261, 305-306
Bulgaria, 213, 230
Bundy, McGeorge, 14, 35, 120, 131, 197n, 199
Bundy, William, 11, 120, 347, 414
Krulak and, 407
Pentagon Papers memo (1964) of, 199-200
Burke, Adm. Arleigh, 40, 105, 414
CIA Indonesia coup and, 140-41, 324
Byrd, Senator Harry, 273
Byrnes, James F., 72-74, 123, 125, 201, 203
C-47 (transport), 413
C-54 (transport), 22-24, 41, 271, 413
C-97 (transport), 117
C-118 affair (1959), 328-37
C-119 (transport), 232
C-130 (transport), 144-45
Cabell, Gen. Charles P., 50, 157, 161, 164, 181, 198, 332-33
Califano, Joseph, 11, 14
Cam Ranh Bay, 35
Camau (Vietnam), 360
Cambodia, 9, 15, 18, 20, 27, 198
(Ransom), 131-32
Carter, General Marshall, 213
Castro, Fidel, 30, 351, 388-89
CAT Airlines, 232, 299
Center for International Studies (MIT), 339
Central Intelligence Agency Act (1949), 187, 275
quoted, 436-38
Century series planes, 154
Chancellor, John, 423
Chiang Kai-shek, 175, 299
Chief of Naval Operations, 112
Chief White House adviser on foreign affairs, 3
China, CIA flights over, 95, 328
Churchill, Winston, 55, 73-74, 125, 201
"CIA and Decision Making" (Cooper), 190
Civic Action teams of Vietnamese government, 361
Civil Affairs and Military Government Command (CAMG), 215, 217, 357
Civil Affairs School (Fort Gordon, Ga.), 357-60, 362-63, 385
Clandestine Intelligence, 57
Clandestine Operations, 57
nature of CIA, 159-79
Clauswitz, Gen. Karl von, 218
Clifford, Clark, 340-42, 347, 384
Cline, Ray, 201
Coast Guard patrol ships, 413
Cold War, 218-19
CIA use of P2V-7 aircraft and, 314-20
Indonesia (1958) and, 323-38
origins of, 74-76
theory of, 320-23
See also Anti-communism; Communism
Commander in Chief Pacific Armed Forces (CINCPAC), 174, 297, 388
Commissioner of Immigration, 277
Common concern, services of, 158
Communications networks of CIA, 14, 88-89, 261, 281-94
ambassadors in, 285-86
Communism
Cold War and, 321-23
containment policy and, 337-55
as excuse for CIA counterinsurgency activities, 90-91, 93-94, 230
post-war responses to, 72-76, 124-27
See also Anti-Communism; Cold War; Soviet Union
Comptrollership of CIA, 261
Computers, 224
Conein, Lucien, 196
Congo, 67, 100, 102, 117, 388
Constellation (aircraft), 271
Containment policy, 337-55, 384
Continental Air Command, 219
Cooper, Chester L., 190, 195-96, 198-201
Coordination of Intelligence by CIA, 147-48
Coordinator of Information (COI), 54-55, 128
Cordona, Jose Miro, 45, 48
Correa, Mathias F., 147, 181, 200, 208
Correlation of intelligence by CIA, 148-55
Council on Foreign Relations, 190, 195, 197n
Counterinsurgency of CIA, 87-94, 107
theories advanced under Kennedy of, 104-21, 136-38, 396-99
example of CIA procedures for. 76-94
in Guatemala, 41
Covert operation, 57
Craft of Intelligence, The (Dulles), 17-18, 61, 373
concept of intelligence in, 66
whitewash of CIA by, 180, 182-85, 187-89
Cuba, 6, 54, 102, 369-70
See also Bay of Pigs "Cult of the gun," 2
Cybernetics, 224
DC-6 (transport), 271, 300
DC-7 (transport), 271
Dalai Lama, 13, 351
Dayan, Moshe, 348-49
Dean, Gen. Fred, 407
Debriefings, 279
Defectors, 216, 277-78
Defense Department (DOD), 10-11, 18
CIA funding and, 187
CIA infiltration of, 109, 134, 279
counterinsurgency expansion of, 136
degradation of role of, 67-68
establishment of (1947), 127
Indochina involvement and, 196
NSAM and, 114-15
post-war theory of defense and, 226-28
transportation networks of, 296
rivalry with CIA of, 142
De Gaulle, Charles, 34, 351, 370, 372
Deputy Director of Administration (DD/A; CIA), 27, 231
Dulles abolishes, 245, 261
Deputy Director of Intelligence (DD/I; CIA), 27, 147, 231
Dulles strengthens, 245, 261
Amory, Bob, 201
Cline, Ray, 201
Deputy Director of Plans (DD/P; CIA), 27n, 147, 197, 231, 280, 382
Dulles strengthens, 245, 261
White, L. K. ' Red" as, 246
Wisner as, 161, 164
personnel and, 267-68, 280
Dickerson, Nancy, 423
Diem, Ngo Dinh, 2, 21, 58-60, 174-75, 390, 411
death of, 416
Lansdale and, 269-70, 389
1963 coup and, 4-6, 7, 289
U.S. support of, 192, 194
Dillon, Douglas, 370
Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), 14, 42, 65, 431-32
CIA, 27, 58
under CIA Act (1949), 275-78
concept of, 54
as head of intelligence community, 141, 146
National Intelligence Authority and, 122
NSAM # 55 and, 115
NSC and, 133-34, 228, 291-92
under the Office of the President, 63, 69, 98
OPC and, 186, 209
Souers as, 70-71
Dissemination of intelligence by CIA, 148-55
DOD, see Defense Department
Dominican Republic, 289
Domino Theory, 198-99
Donovan, Gen. William J., 2, 54, 130, 232n
Communist "bogey" and, 126, 206-207, 340-42
as Director of OSS, 56, 61-63, 411
National Intelligence Authority and, 65, 69, 70-71
Douglas, James, 39n, 385-87
Douglas, William O., 417-18, 420
Dulles, Allen Welsh, 29, 60, 212
Bay of Pigs and, 40, 45, 48-51, 104
Bay of Pigs aftermath and, 105-13, 396
CIA infiltration of governmental organizations and, 260, 270
Communist "bogey" and, 126
containment policy and, 340-42
Dewey and, 181
J. Foster Dulles and, 163-64
duplicity in CIA involvements and, 58, 192-94
extension of CIA authority and, 99, 129, 136, 138-39, 291, 337-39
funding of CIA and, 274
initial reorganization of CIA by, 244-45, 261
Kennedy and, 389
National Intelligence Authority and, 69, 70-71
news media and, 181
1959 C-118 affair and, 329, 333
1960 election and, 327
NSAM #55 and, 116, 402
NSAM #57 and, 118-19
under Smith, 231
stockpiling by CIA and, 311-12
Taylor and, 408
U-2 affair and, 378
See also Craft of Intelligence (Dulles);
Dulles-Jackson-Correa report (1949)
placing CIA within structure of U.S. government and, 259-60
Smith implementations of, 228-33
Dulles and, 181, 209-11, 241
DuPicq, Colonel (France), 320, 346
DuPuy, Gen. William, 19, 412
death of, 351
Dewey and, 182, 209
A. W. Dulles and, 163-64
1956 Suez crisis and, 348-49
1959 C-118 affair and, 333
as Sec. of State, 233
Vietnam involvement and, 192, 194, 196
CIA stockpiling and, 310-11
curtails CIA Hights, 381-82
A. W. Dulles and, 210, 233, 241
events leading up to U-2 affair and effects on 1960 Summit of, 351-55, 369-71
Indonesia investigation by, 326-27
IRBM and, 350
Korea and, 232-33
NSC uses of, 131, 132, 135-36. 291-92
U-2 affair and, 13, 25, 28-29, 197, 371-80
Ellsberg, Daniel, 26, 189
Lansdale and, 61
Pentagon Papers and, 191, 195-96
Establishment of CIA (1947), 10, 98-104
See also National Security Act
Evaluation of intelligence by CIA, 148-55
Expenditures of CIA, 277
F-90 (jet fighter), 153-54
F-94 (jet fighter), 154
Fairways Incorporated, 88
Federal Aviation Administration, 109
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 56, 63, 141
CIA and, 268
Filipino Operation Brotherhood, 361
Finished intelligence,' 158
Fitzgerald, Desmond, 347
Flame-out," 155
Flexible response," 384
Florida, 382, 387, 388, 389
Flying Tigers, 299
Foreign Affairs, 190, 192, 194-95, 199-200
Formosa, secret CIA bases on, 94-95
Forrestal, James, 132-33, 208
Forrestal, Mike, 14
Fort Bragg, 363, 385
Fort Gulick (Panama), 43
"Fourth Force," 214
France, 74, 171-74
Frost, Adm. Luther H., 140
Funding of CIA, 186-87, 382-83
Central Intelligence Act (1949) and, 274, 275-78
Gates, Thomas, 38, 39n, 405
Geneva Conference (1954), 194
Genghis Khan, 303
Gilpatric, Roswell, 39n
Glennan, Keith, 28-29, 377
Gramont, Sanche de, 98
Greece, 34, 35, 102, 230
CIA involvement in, 213
MAP in, 355
Truman Doctrine and, 125
Governmental agencies, CIA infiltration of, 109-10, 134, 259-60
of DOD, 279
of Executive Department, 109
military and, 268-70
coup in, 13, 40-41
Halberstam, David, 237
Hammerskjold, Dag, 2, 382
Heintges, Gen. John A., 173, 407
Helicopter forces, 387
Helicopter use in Vietnam, 411-13
Helio Aircraft Corp., 161
Helio courier (L-28), 159-61, 298-99, 413
Helms, Richard, 106, 161
Herter, Christian, 38-39, 351, 370, 376, 379
Hillenkoetter, Adm. Roscoe H., 214, 220, 229-30
Hider, Adolph, 56
Ho Chi Minh Trail, 68
Hoopes, Townsend, 17
Hoover, J. Edgar, 61-63, 389
Houston, Larry, 382
Huks (Philippines), 34, 90, 93
Human Use of Human Beings, The (Weiner), 97
Hungary, 54
Hussein (King of Jordan), 144-45
Hydrogen bomb, 224, 2a6-a7
India, 92, 100
India-China border dispute (1962), 117
India-Pakistani War (1971), 75-76, 100
Indonesia, 21, 34, 102-103, 140-41, 321, 381
Eisenhower curtails involvement in, 8
1958 CIA involvement in, 323-28
Information, concept of, 55 56
intelligence and, 158
Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA), 86, 106, 137, 270, 408
Intelligence, information and, 158
Intelligence, U.S. post-war theories of, 65-76
Cold War and, 74-76
Intelligence community, 141
Intelligence functions of CIA
correlation, evaluation, dissemination and, 148-55
Intelligence Review Committee (1948), 208
Intelligence vs. secret operations in CIA, 54-64, 94-97, 98-104
Inter-American Police Academy, 394
Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM), 322, 349-50
International Jaycees, 361
Investment houses, 2
Invisible Government, The (Wise and Ross), 21, 30
Iran, 13, 67, 213, 221, 230, 271, 328
MAP in, 355
Italy, 74
Smith and, 231, 233
Jakarta, 140, 324
Japan, 64, 232
JCS, see Joint Chiefs of Staff
Johnson, Haynes, 113
Johnson, Kelly, 154
Johnson, Louis, 132, 186-87, 210, 265
Johnson, Lyndon B., 4, 7, 191
involvement in Vietnam and, 13, 17, 19, 196, 198-99
NSC and, 179 Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), 5, 9, 11, 15, 30
briefing procedure of, 257-58
Burke and, 111-12 CIA
Cuban involvement and, 37-39, 44, 106-107, 110-13, 178
establishment of (1947), 127
IDA and, 106, 137
Indochina involvement and, 193, 414
National Intelligence Authority and, 65, 71
NSAM #55 and, 115, 119, 401-402, 415
nuclear weapons and, 214-15
Pentagon Papers and, 290
Special Operations under, 406
Taylor and, 110-11
See also Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and
Special Activities; Taylor, Gen. Maxwell D.
Jordan, Kingdom of, 144-46, 271
Junior Officer Training Program (CIA), 268-69
Jupiter missile, 322, 349
Katanga province (Congo; 1962), 117, 388
Keating, Kenneth, 100
Kennan, George F., 201, 340-41
Kennedy, John F., 54, 389-90
Bay of Pigs and, 13, 38-39, 44-46, 378
CIA briefings before 1960 election of, 45-46, 327
Cuba stand of, 389
death of, 2, 416, 417
1963 Diem coup and, 4-7
NSC use of, 132, 136-37, 179, 183-84, 292, 392
history of CIA under, 390-416
Vietnam involvement and, 16, 198, 400-416
See also Cuba Kennedy, Robert F., 2, 17, 105, 120, 326
Bay of Pigs aftermath and, 116, 396
A. W. Dulles and, 106-107, 113-14, 183-84
Khamba tribesmen (Tibet), 294-95
Khanh, Gen. Nguyen, 7
Khrushchev, Nikita, 66, 107, 349
1960 Summit and, 351-52, 369-71
U-2 affair and, 25, 29, 371-80
King, Martin Luther, 2, 420
Kirkpatrick, Lyman, 128, 129, 179, 180-81, 184
on Dulles-Jackson-Correa report, 211
on early CIA, 205, 212
"Kitchen Debate" (1959), 351
Knebel, Fletcher, 116
Kong Le, 366
Korea, 21, 355
Korean War (1950-53), 205, 213, 221-22, 228, 230, 232
Krulak, Gen. Victor H., 9, 11-12, 16, 19
Special Activities, 120, 135, 401
Laird, Melvin, 149-50, 308-309
Lansdale, Gen. Edward, 347, 411, 412, 443
Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers and, 61, 195-96, 197
Krulak and, 407
McNamara and, 11, 197, 199, 406
Magsaysay support by, 107, 288
Vietnam, Diem and, 59-60, 174, 193, 194, 269-70, 389
covert raids on, 27
Eisenhower's curtailing of CIA flights and, 8
French discovery of CIA involvement in, 171-74
use of Helio "Courier" in 298-99
McNamara and, 9, 20
Meo tribesmen of, 256, 387, 404
Pathet Lao, 172, 366, 387
Special Forces in, 387
Thailand border patrols and, 269
Leahy, Adm. William D., 62, 70
Lee, Gen. J. C. H., 304
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act (1933), 187
Lemay, Gen. Curtis, 414
Lemnitzer, Gen. Lyman L., 38-40, 111-12, 258, 414
succeeded by Taylor in JCS, 350
Lindbergh, Charles A., 123
Lloyd, Selwyn, 348-49
Loan, Gen. Nguyen Ngoc, 366
Lockheed Corporation, 153-54, 260-61, 316, 373
CIA and, 318-19
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 5, 213
Logistics systems of CIA, 90-92, 161, 246-65, 303-12
Lovett, Robert, 201
MacArthur, Gen. Douglas, 56, 61-63, 71, 180, 232, 410-11
Macmillan, Harold, 370, 372
McCarthy, Joseph, 126, 229
McCarthyism, 126, 229
McClelland, Gen. Harold, 286
McCone, John, 17, 241, 347
McConnell, Murray, 231
McCord, James, 336
McCormick, Col. Alfred, 71, 122
McElroy, Neil, 333, 350, 405
McGoon, "Earthquake," 298
McGrory, Mary, 410, 415
McNamara, Robert S., 4, 17, 119-20, 198-99, 239, 389, 414
Bay of Pigs and, 38-39
briefings of, 240, 347
Bundy and, 110, 135
McNamara-Taylor Vietnam report (1963), 5-7, 19, 416
McNamara Vietnam report (1963), 8-15
NSAM #55 and, 402
on "Steps to Change the Trend of the War" (1964), 19-20
Magsaysay, Ramon, 21, 34, 59-60, 84, 90
Lansdale, General and, 107
Malinovsky, Marshal Rodion Y., 371
Manhattan Project, 64
Mansfield, Senator Mike, 6, 248, 407, 410, 415
Marines, 35
Marshall, Gen. George C., 203, 213
Marshall Plan (1947), 74, 203, 344
Massed rapid-fire weapons, 122
Matsu, 351
Medaris, Gen. John B., 107
Meo tribesmen (Laos), 256, 387, 404
Mexico, 22-26
Milbraith, Lester, 195
Military, the, 63, 204-205
CIA and under CIA Act (1949), 275-78
CIA use of military bases, 272-75
postwar defensive posture of, 127
See also Air Force, U.S.i Army, U.S.; Navy, U.S.
in Southeast Asia, 6-7
Military Air Transport Service, 274
Military Assistance Program (MAP), 43, 145, 171, 256, 344, 394
P2V-7 aircraft and, 14-15
Minh, Gen. Duong Van "Big," 7
Missile gap," 156-57, 322
Mollet, Guy, 348-49
Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard Law, 304
Multi-nationals, 176
Munitions manufacture, Vietnam War and, 411-12
Mutual funds, 2, 52
Mutual Security Act (1951), 355
Mutual Security Program, CIA and, 353, 355-71
article on leadership training under, 445-80
My Lai, 404
Nasution, Gen. Abdul Haris, 324-25
Nation building, 394-95
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 28-29, 310, 352, 377
National Economy Act (1932), 187, 264-65, 382
"National Intelligence," 158
National Intelligence Authority (1946), 65, 122, 128-29
National Intelligence Estimates (NIE), 190-92, 195-201
National Security Act of 1947, 10, 71
functions of CIA as prescribed by 140-58
1947 political climate and, 201, 203-204, 224-28
quoted, 427-34, 438-41
See also Central Intelligence Act (1949)
#55 (1961j, 16, 114-16, 119, 120-21, 401, 415
#56 (1961), 119
#57 (1961), 116-19, 121, 401, 402-403, 414-15
National Security Council (NSC), 3, 10, 37, 73, 163
CIA functions as prescribed by law and, 141, 147, 148, 158, 175
Diem and, 59
establishment of (1947), 127-28
Kennedy and, 132, 136-37, 179, 183-84
Nixon and, 45, 46
NSC/2 (1948) and, 98-9
NSC/ 10 (1948) and, 26-27, 185-86, 208-209, 231, 310
OCB and, 127-28, 131, 133, 291-92
See also Special Groups (NSC)
Navarre, Gen. Henri, 193
Navy, U. S., 111-12, 127, 140-41, 180, 247-48
P2V-7 aircraft and, 314-16, 319
SEAL-team, 33, 138
News media, 2, 238-39, 240
New York Times The, 4, 10-11, 26, 44, 65, 70
Pentagon Papers of, 58-60
death of, 416
Nicaragua, 29, 41-42, 92, 102, 388, 389
Nixon, Richard M., 45-46, 191, 196, 370, 378, 419
Cuba stand of, 389
Kitchen Debate (1959), 351
Vietnam War and, 421-23
Norstad, Gen. Lauris, 119
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 168-69, 221, 355
North Vietnam, 27, 35
Norway, 102, 166-69, 221
Nosavan, Gen. Phoumi
NSA, see National Security Agency
NSC, see National Security Council
Nuclear warfare, 64-65, 124, 202, 224-26
CIA, military and effects on strategy and tactics of, 214-23
Office of Emergency Planning, 127
Office of National Estimates, 191, 193-94
Office of Naval Intelligence, 70
Office of Policy Coordination (OPC; CIA), 186, 209, 231-32
Office of President, see President
Office of Psychological Warfare, 152, 217, 2220
Office of Secretary of Defense, 11, 14, 44
Office of Special Operations, 163, 273
Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 2, 56, 61-63, 180
CIA and, 268
Operation Brotherhood, 361
Operational procedures of CIA, 76-94
See also Secret operations
Operations Coordinating Board (NSC), 128, 131, 133, 291-92
Kennedy and, 392
OPLAN-34 (Southeast Asia), 27, 35
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 202
Organization of America States, 48
OSS, see Office of Strategic Services
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 416
Pacification, 360-61, 366, 395, 405
Pakistan, 92, 100, 102, 221 U-2 affair and, 169
Panama, 29, 41, 382, 387, 388
Paramilitary organizations of CIA, 88
Pathet Lao, 172, 366, 387
Patton, Gen. George S., 304
"Peacetime" operations of CIA, 57, 142-44, 146
Peers, Gen. William R., 19, 412
Pentagon Papers (1971), 4-21, 54, 117, 135, 147, 407
operations and, 5741
military and CIA in, 269
on overthrow of Diem, 289
use of "sheep-dipped" by, 172-73
whitewash of CIA by, 189, 191-201
Personnel of CIA, 261, 266-80
See also Governmental agencies, CIA infiltration of
Magsaysay and, 21, 34, 594Q 84, 90
Phillips, Rufus, 196
"Phone-drop" organizations, 256-57
Photography, aerial, 307-308
Polaris missile, 350
Police wars, 394-95
Political-economic-social role of Army, 15, 87, 355-69, 394
Ponchardier, Adm. Pierre, 348
Pope, Allen, 324-26, 373
Post-war theories of intelligence, 65-76
Cold War and, 74-76
Powers, Francis Gary, 150, 323, 325, 371, 373, 375-76
President, 29, 103, 127, 130
Current Intelligence Office and, 234-41
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, 435-36
President's Special Committee on Indochina (1954), 193
Pseudo-military business organizations of CIA, 88
PT boats, 413
Publishing houses, 2
Puerifoy, John, 213, 232n
Puerto Cabezas, 41-42, 49-50
Puerto Rico, 29
Quemoy, 351
Radford, Adm. Arthur, 60, 107, 411
Radio networks, use of in coup d'etat, 87
Radio Free Europe, 54
Rand Corporation, 86, 156, 270
Ransom, Harry Howe, 131-32, 136
Real CIA, The (Kirkpatrick), 128, 180-81, 234
Reconnaissance
satellite, 150-51, 157, 308-10
Research and development by CIA, 261-64
Retirement policies of CIA, 278-79
RF-105 (reconnaissance plane), 473
Richardson, John, 213
Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin, 304
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 54-55, 61, 128
Ross, Thomas B., 21, 30, 38
Rosson, Gen. William, 19, 196, 347, 412
Rostow, Walt, 8n, 35, 197, 200, 389
Roumania, 213, 230
Rusk, Dean, 14, 17, 199, 402
Bundy and, 110, 135
Russell, Senator Richard, 248
Saltonstall, Senator Leverett, 248
"Salvage," 253-55
Sarit, Marshal Dhanarajta, 174, 269
Satellite reconnaissance, 150-51, 157, 308-10
SEAL-team (Navy), 33, 138
Secret Intelligence, 57
Secret Intelligence Branch (OSS), 64
Secret Intelligence Operations, 57
Secret Operations, 57
nature of CIA, 34-37, 159-79
Secret War, The (Gramont), 98
Special Forces and, 385-86
See also Defense Department
Secretary of State, 65, 69, 115
OPC and, 186, 209, 231
peacetime planning powers of, 143-44
See also State Department Secretary of War, 65, 69
Sevareid, Eric, 423
"Sheep-dipped," 172-73
Shoup, Gen. David M., 258
Six Crises (Nixon), 45
Smith, Howard K., 423
Smith, Gen. Walter Bedell, 99, 194, 214, 234, 240
as DCI of CIA, 228-33, 241
Snow, C. P., 424
Sorenson, Theodore, 403n
Souers, Adm. Sidney, 70-71, 99, 122
South Vietnam, 21, 93-94, 101
See also Vietnam Souvanna Phouma (Prince of Laos), 269
Sovereignty, national, 101-102, 137
Soviet Union, 64, 124-25, 127
post-war fears of, 125-27
See also Communism; U-2 affair
Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities (SACSA; JCS), 11, 12, 119-20, 199, 290, 388
creation of, 406-407
Krulak and, 135, 401, 407-408
Civil Affairs school of, 363, 369
in coup d'etat, 87
development of, 220-21
Special Groups (NSC), 33, 35, 291-92
CI, 119, 137, 409
5412/2, 42, 109, 119, 133-34, 175
Special personnel of CIA, 261
Special Services, 56-57
Spellman, Francis Cardinal, 60, 107, 411
Spy-in-the-Sky orbital laboratories, 308-10
Stalin, Joseph, 56
State Department, 60, 63-64, 71
CIA infiltration of, 109, 134
degradation of role of, 67-68
IDA and, 106, 137
intelligence operations of 122, 141
Military Aid Program and, 145
Stilwell, Gen. Richard G., 11, 19, 412, 443
Stimson, Henry L., 55, 68
Stockpiling of military equipment by CIA, 249-50, 310-11
Strategic Air Command (SAC), 162, 219-20
"Subversive insurgency," 138, 364, 384
Suez Crisis (1956), 348-49
Sukarno (President of Indonesia), 140, 323
Sumatra, 140
T-33 (trainer craft), 49, 51, 154
Tactical Air Command, 220, 275
Tactics in CIA coup d'etat, 76-94
Taipan, 299
Taiwan, 232, 299-300, 382
Taylor, Gen. Maxwell D., 14, 15-16, 19, 347, 353
as Focal Point man for Dulles, 131, 134, 407-409
as head of JCS, 119-20, 410, 414-15
IRBM, 349-50
Kennedy, Vietnam involvement and, 197, 198-99, 408, 411
McNamara-Taylor Vietnam report (1963), 5-7, 19, 416
"New National Program of Flexible Response," 362, 369, 380, 384, 396
Thieu, Nguyen Van, 174, 269
Thor missile, 322, 349
Tibet, 21, 34, 54, 67, 102
Eisenhower curtailing of CIA flights and, 8, 382
escape of Dalai Lama from, 13, 351
Tolson, Gen., 395, 412
Tonkin Gulf incident (1963), 20-21, 35
Toynbee, Arnold, 28-29, 37, 54
"Training Under the Mutual Security Program" (1959), 363-68
Trujillo, Rafael, 2, 34, 289, 353-54
Truman, Harry S
on CIA, 9-10, 37-38, 54, 184-85, 419-20
Dulles-Jackson-Correa report (1947), 147, 182, 207-209
initial post-war policies of, 123-25, 201
National Intelligence Authority and, 65; 69-70
National Security Act (1947) and, 127, 205
NSC uses of, 131-33, 291
OSS and, 98
Tshombe, Moshe, 117
"TSS" (CIA research division), 306-10, 314, 317
Turkey, 125, 203, 221, 355
Twining, Gen. Nathan, 414
Eisenhower and, 13, 28-29, 38, 197, 371-80
Eisenhower, 1960 Summit meeting and, 351-55, 369-71
photography techniques of, 307-308
United Nations, 72
Universities, 2
U.S. Air Forces, Europe (USAFE), 162
Vanished (Knebel), 116
Varona, Manuel Antonio de, 45
Vice President, 197
Viet Cong, 8
Vietnam, 67, 103, 213
1945-64 CIA control of, 59-61, 117-18
Pentagon Papers history of U.S. involvement in, 4-21
Warfare, evolution of, 122-23
CIA, military, nuclear weapons and, 214-23
Warren Commission report, 419-20
Washington Post, 26
Weisner, Jerry, 389
Wheeler, Gen. Earle, 119-20, 347, 406
White, Col. L. K., 246
White, Lincoln, 377
White, Gen. Thomas D., 220, 330, 333
"White Star" teams, 173-74
Whitehead, Gen. Ennis C., 219
Whitewash of CIA, 180-201
Wiener, Norbert, 97, 224, 226, 227
on communications, 282
Willkie, Wendell, 56, 123
Wilson, Charles, 350, 405
Windchy, Eugene, 21
Wire tapping, 281
Wise, David, 21, 30, 38
Wisner, Frank, 161, 163, 209, 326-27
World War I, 122-23
World War II, 123
Yugoslavia, 213, 230
“Offers uncommonly penetrating insight.…A rare glimpse into Covert and Black Operations.—New York Times Bestselling author, Governor Jesse Ventura, from his Foreword.
The Secret Team, L. Fletcher Prouty’s expose´ of the CIA’s brutal methods of maintaining national security during the Cold War, was first published in the 1970s. However, virtually all copies of the book disappeared upon distribution, having been purchased en masse by shady “private buyers.” Prouty’s topics include:
President Kennedy tried to control the CIA.
The nature of clandestine operations.
The Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report in action
Defense, containment, and anti-communism
Khrushchev’s Challenge: the U-2 dilemma
From the Bay of Pigs to Dallas.
And much more!Prouty’s allegations—such as how the U-2 Crisis of 1960 was fixed to sabotage Eisenhower–Khrushchev talk—cannot have pleased the CIA. The Secret Team appears once more with a new introduction by bestselling author, Governor Jesse Ventura.
“Like it or not, we now live in a new age of ‘One World.’ This is the age of global companies, of global communications and transport, of global food supply and finance and . . . just around the corner . . . global accommodation of political systems. In this sense, there are no home markets, no isolated markets and no markets outside the global network. It is time to face the fact that true national sovereignty no longer exists. We live in a world of big business, big lawyers, big bankers, even bigger moneymen and big politicians. It is the world of The Secret Team.”
Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: Skyhorse; 2nd edition (April 1, 2011)
“The WikiLeaks of its day” (Time) is as relevant as ever to present-day American politics.
“The most significant leaks of classified material in American history.” –The Washington Post
Not Fake News! The basis for the 2018 film The Post by Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg, The Pentagon Papers are a series of articles, documents, and studies examining the Johnson Administration’s lies to the public about the extent of US involvement in the Vietnam War, bringing to light shocking conclusions about America’s true role in the conflict.
Published by The New York Times in 1971, The Pentagon Papers riveted an already deeply divided nation with startling and disturbing revelations about the United States' involvement in Vietnam. The Washington Post called them “the most significant leaks of classified material in American history” and they remain relevant today as a reminder of the importance of a free press and First Amendment rights. The Pentagon Papers demonstrated that the government had systematically lied to both the public and to Congress.
This incomparable, 848-page volume includes:
- The Truman and Eisenhower Years: 1945-1960 by Fox Butterfield
- Origins of the Insurgency in South Vietnam by Fox Butterfield
- The Kennedy Years: 1961-1963 by Hedrick Smith
- The Overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem: May-November, 1963 by Hedrick Smith
- The Covert War and Tonkin Gulf: February-August, 1964 by Neil Sheehan
- The Consensus to Bomb North Vietnam: August, 1964-February, 1965 by Neil Sheehan
- The Launching of the Ground War: March-July, 1965 by Neil Sheehan
- The Buildup: July, 1965-September, 1966 by Fox Butterfield
- Secretary McNamara’s Disenchantment: October, 1966-May, 1967 by Hedrick Smith
- The Tet Offensive and the Turnaround by E. W. Kenworthy
- Analysis and Comment
- Court Records
- Biographies of Key Figures
With a brand-new foreword by James L. Greenfield, this edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning story is sure to provoke discussion about free press and government deception, and shed some light on issues in the past and the present so that we can better understand and improve the future.
About the Author
Neil Sheehan is the author of A Fiery Peace in a Cold War and A Bright Shining Lie, which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1989. He spent three years in Vietnam as a war correspondent for United Press International and The New York Times and won numerous awards for his reporting. In 1971, he obtained The Pentagon Papers, which brought the Times the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for meritorious public service. Sheehan lives in Washington, DC. He is married to the writer Susan Sheehan.
E. W. Kenworthy worked at The New York Times for nearly thirty years, in both New York and Washington. He passed away in January 1993.
Fox Butterfield is an American journalist and author. His work has been read and acclaimed widely, having received both a Pulitzer Prize for his role in publishing The Pentagon Papers and a National Book Award for China: Alive in the Bitter Sea.
Hedrick Smith is an American journalist, producer, and correspondent. During twenty-six years at The New York Times, he covered the civil rights struggle, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War, among many other monumental events in America history.
James L. Greenfield was the US secretary of state for public affairs as well as an editor for The New York Times for more than twenty years. He directly contributed to the publication of The Pentagon Papers and later founded the Independent Journalism Foundation.
Paperback: 848 pages
Publisher: Racehorse Publishing (December 12, 2017)
A crash course in the conspiracy field. Digests of ten works like A Century of War, Tragedy and Hope, The Creature from Jekyll Island, and Dope Inc. yield an across-the-spectrum, composite profile of the suspect. Each covers a different aspect of the hydra-headed conspiracy that manipulates mankind in many different, even contradictory guises: it's the Anglo-American power elite, hiding in plain view. Knowledge is power. Unmasking the tricks of the "wizard behind the curtain" offers us the way to neutralize its power, and get our destiny back on the right track.
Review
It's not a conspiracy theory if it is true... The author has culled a handful of books that support his case against a global financial elite... Focus on the relationship between organized crime and the super-elite, and on the relationship between drugs, covert operations, and Wall Street. -- Robert Steele "Amazon.com"
From the Author
We present in this book overwhelming evidence that the many misfortunes our country has suffered during this last century have not just happened by chance. We have researched the works of many writers seeking to find out WHO is impoverishing us, and WHY and HOW they are doing it. Our findings are presented via a series of in-depth reviews of a carefully selected set of books, mostly little-known but a few famous, written by others. Taken together, a coherent picture emerges which precious few among even our political activists understand. We finish by laying out a legislative program which will finally get at our real problems, instead of wasting our efforts on the minutia which the media and the present Congress are concerning themselves with.
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: ABJ Press (January 1997)
From the Back Cover
Does America have a hidden oligarchy? Is U.S. foreign policy run by a closed shop? What is the Council on Foreign Relations? It began in 1921 as a front organization for J.P. Morgan and Company. By World War II it had acquired unrivaled influence on American foreign policy. Hundreds of U.S. government administrators and diplomats have been drawn from its ranks - regardless of which party has occupied the White House. But what does the Council on Foreign Relations stand for? Why do the major media avoid discussing it? What has been its impact on America's past - and what is it planning for the future? These questions and more are answered by James Perloff in The Shadows of Power.
Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: Western Islands (November 1, 1988)
Drawing from a power elite perspective and the latest empirical data, Domhoff’s classic text is an invaluable tool for teaching students about how power operates in U.S. society. Domhoff argues that the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant figures in the U.S. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington and their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments. By providing empirical evidence for his argument, Domhoff encourages students to think critically about the power structure in American society and its implications for our democracy.
Paperback: 184 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1st edition (December 1967)
An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful—and secretive—colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers.
America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on revelatory new materials—including newly discovered U.S. government documents, U.S. and European intelligence sources, the personal correspondence and journals of Allen Dulles’s wife and mistress, and exclusive interviews with the children of prominent CIA officials—Talbot reveals the underside of one of America’s most powerful and influential figures.
Dulles’s decade as the director of the CIA—which he used to further his public and private agendas—were dark times in American politics. Calling himself “the secretary of state of unfriendly countries,” Dulles saw himself as above the elected law, manipulating and subverting American presidents in the pursuit of his personal interests and those of the wealthy elite he counted as his friends and clients—colluding with Nazi-controlled cartels, German war criminals, and Mafiosi in the process. Targeting foreign leaders for assassination and overthrowing nationalist governments not in line with his political aims, Dulles employed those same tactics to further his goals at home, Talbot charges, offering shocking new evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
An exposé of American power that is as disturbing as it is timely, The Devil’s Chessboard is a provocative and gripping story of the rise of the national security state—and the battle for America’s soul.
About the Author
David Talbot is the author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years and the acclaimed national bestseller Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love. He is the founder and former editor in chief of Salon, and was a senior editor at Mother Jones and the features editor at the San Francisco Examiner. He has written for The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Time, The Guardian, and other major publications. Talbot lives in San Francisco, California.
Paperback: 720 pages
Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (September 6, 2016)
Dan Smoot's "Invisble Government" sold about 1 million copies through self-publishing alone, but it did not appear on the New York Times "Best Sellers List" of 1962. Essentially it is a book dealing with organization called The Council on Foreign Relations founded by Edward Mandel House, one of the Dullers brothers and others devoted to bringing "socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx.", to quote House, to this country. The writing is dry but effective. Had he lived, Senator Joseph McCarthy might have written this book himself since the Council is one of groups that he was getting into his sights before Eisenhower stopped him. What Dan Smoot revealed is how ITC control of the national medias is so pervasive that true and vital news seldom gets to the populace at large. Smoot's anaylsis of it's goals bear close attention for those who are interested in answering befuddling questions about U.S. foreign and domestic policies. Over twenty six years later "The Shadows of Power" by James Perloff, brought the CFR up to date, and the report on how this subversive organization has not been dealt with is not good! From what one may gather after reading "The Invisible Government" is how many lives have been ruined or lost in order to fulfill the dreams of a few determined to create a "New World Order". If you think this is only the stuff of Ian Flemming or H.G. Wells, Smoot's book goes a long way to prove otherwise.
About the Author
Dan Smoot (1913-2003) was an FBI agent and a conservative political activist. From the 1950s to 1971 , he published The Dan Smoot Report, which chronicled alleged communist infiltration in various sectors of American government and society. In 1970 , he opposed the selection of a future U.S. president, George Herbert Walker Bush, as the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Texas. He claimed that Bush's political philosophy was little different from the Democrats that he sought to oppose. Bush lost the Senate election that year to popular Democrat Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. In 1972 , Smoot opposed the reelection of Richard M. Nixon and served as campaign manager for American Independent Party presidential candidate John G. Schmitz of California.
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (December 31, 2013)
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Urantia Book, 44:0.11 - The Celestial Artisans
Never in your long ascendancy will you lose the power to recognize your associates of former existences. Always, as you ascend inward in the scale of life, will you retain the ability to recognize and fraternize with the fellow beings of your previous and lower levels of experience. Each new translation or resurrection will add one more group of spirit beings to your vision range without in the least depriving you of the ability to recognize your friends and fellows of former estates.
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Princess Bride 1987 Wallace Shawn (Vizzini) and Mandy Patinkin (Inigo Montoya)
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Urantia Book, 117:4.14 - The Finite God
And here is mystery: The more closely man approaches God through love, the greater the reality -- actuality -- of that man. The more man withdraws from God, the more nearly he approaches nonreality -- cessation of existence. When man consecrates his will to the doing of the Father's will, when man gives God all that he has, then does God make that man more than he is.
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Urantia Book, 167:7.4 - The Talk About Angels
"And do you not remember that I said to you once before that, if you had your spiritual eyes anointed, you would then see the heavens opened and behold the angels of God ascending and descending? It is by the ministry of the angels that one world may be kept in touch with other worlds, for have I not repeatedly told you that I have other sheep not of this fold?"
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Urantia Book, Foreword - 0:12.12 - The Trinities
But we know that there dwells within the human mind a fragment of God, and that there sojourns with the human soul the Spirit of Truth; and we further know that these spirit forces conspire to enable material man to grasp the reality of spiritual values and to comprehend the philosophy of universe meanings. But even more certainly we know that these spirits of the Divine Presence are able to assist man in the spiritual appropriation of all truth contributory to the enhancement of the ever-progressing reality of personal religious experience—God-consciousness.
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Urantia Book, 1:4.3 - The Mystery Of God
When you are through down here, when your course has been run in temporary form on earth, when your trial trip in the flesh is finished, when the dust that composes the mortal tabernacle "returns to the earth whence it came"; then, it is revealed, the indwelling "Spirit shall return to God who gave it." There sojourns within each moral being of this planet a fragment of God, a part and parcel of divinity. It is not yet yours by right of possession, but it is designedly intended to be one with you if you survive the mortal existence.
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Urantia Book, 1:4.1 - The Mystery Of God
And the greatest of all the unfathomable mysteries of God is the phenomenon of the divine indwelling of mortal minds. The manner in which the Universal Father sojourns with the creatures of time is the most profound of all universe mysteries; the divine presence in the mind of man is the mystery of mysteries.
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Urantia Book, 1:4.6 - The Mystery Of God
To every spirit being and to every mortal creature in every sphere and on every world of the universe of universes, the Universal Father reveals all of his gracious and divine self that can be discerned or comprehended by such spirit beings and by such mortal creatures. God is no respecter of persons, either spiritual or material. The divine presence which any child of the universe enjoys at any given moment is limited only by the capacity of such a creature to receive and to discern the spirit actualities of the supermaterial world.
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Urantia Book, 11:0.1 - The Eternal Isle Of Paradise
Paradise is the eternal center of the universe of universes and the abiding place of the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, the Infinite Spirit, and their divine co-ordinates and associates. This central Isle is the most gigantic organized body of cosmic reality in all the master universe. Paradise is a material sphere as well as a spiritual abode. All of the intelligent creation of the Universal Father is domiciled on material abodes; hence must the absolute controlling center also be material, literal. And again it should be reiterated that spirit things and spiritual beings are real.
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Urantia Book, 50:6.4 - Planetary Culture
Culture presupposes quality of mind; culture cannot be enhanced unless mind is elevated. Superior intellect will seek a noble culture and find some way to attain such a goal. Inferior minds will spurn the highest culture even when presented to them ready-made.
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Urantia Book, 54:1.6 - True And False Liberty
True liberty is the associate of genuine self-respect; false liberty is the consort of self-admiration. True liberty is the fruit of self-control; false liberty, the assumption of self-assertion. Self-control leads to altruistic service; self-admiration tends towards the exploitation of others for the selfish aggrandizement of such a mistaken individual as is willing to sacrifice righteous attainment for the sake of possessing unjust power over his fellow beings.
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Urantia Book, 54:1.9 - True And False Liberty
How dare the self-willed creature encroach upon the rights of his fellows in the name of personal liberty when the Supreme Rulers of the universe stand back in merciful respect for these prerogatives of will and potentials of personality! No being, in the exercise of his supposed personal liberty, has a right to deprive any other being of those privileges of existence conferred by the Creators and duly respected by all their loyal associates, subordinates, and subjects.
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Urantia Book, 54:1.8 - True And False Liberty
There is no error greater than that species of self-deception which leads intelligent beings to crave the exercise of power over other beings for the purpose of depriving these persons of their natural liberties. The golden rule of human fairness cries out against all such fraud, unfairness, selfishness, and unrighteousness.
