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UNDERSTANDING
SPECIAL OPERATIONS
And Their Impact on The Vietnam War Era
1989 Interview with L. Fletcher Prouty
Colonel USAF (Retired)
David T. Ratcliffe
rat haus reality press
Santa Cruz, California
Copyright © 1999 by David T. Ratcliffe
All rights reserved.
rat haus reality press, 276 West Street, Biddeford, ME 04005
www.ratical.org
Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc.
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1st edition, first printing.
ISBN 0-9673507-0-0
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 99-75115
Manufactured in the United States of America
on 60% recovered and 25% post-consumer waste recylced paper
with soy-based inks.
For
my parents, John and Elizabeth Ratcliffe,
who taught me to seek out life's infinite possibilities,
and
all who strive to build a sustainable civilization
where nature, humanity, and technology manifest
a contemporary wholeness that serves and honors life.
Special Operations are an ad hoc creation -- probably
the strongest ad hoc creation in our government today.
-- L. Fletcher Prouty, 1999
Copyright
Table Of Contents
Acknowledgments
Forward
Introduction
1. Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty's Military Experiences 1941-1963
Part I: 1941-1945
o Entering the Army, the Air Corps, and Air Transport Command
o Air Transport Command Pilot: North Africa
o Air Transport Command Pilot: the Middle East
o Air Transport Command Pilot: Eurasia
o Air Transport Command Pilot: the West Pacific
Part II: 1945-1961
o On Okinawa: The Surrender of Japan,
and a 500,000 manpack Re-Routed to Korea and Indochina
o 1946-1948: Inaugurating the Air Force's ROTC Program at Yale
o 1949-1950: Writing the First USAF ROTC text book on
Aeronautics and a Major Portion of Rockets and Guided Missiles
o 1950-1951: A New Air Defense Command
o 1952-1954: Managing Tokyo International Airport
And Heavy-Transport Flying
o 1955: Attending the Armed Forces Staff College
o 1955: Assignment to New Position of "Focal Point" Officer
for Air Force Support of U.S. Government Clandestine Operations
o Coordination of the CIA: How Covert Operations Are Run
o The Suez Crisis of 1956
o The CIA in Europe
o Nuclear Warfare: the CIA becomes a Fourth Force
o Cuba, 1959-1960: From Over-The-Beach Work to Invasion
Part III: 1961-1963
o Experiences of and Perspectives on the Bay of Pigs
o A Result of CIA Covert Military Commanders in Vietnam:
The League of Families for the Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia
o JFK Prepares To Get Out Of Vietnam:
The Taylor/McNamara Trip Report of October 1963 and NSAM 263
o The Murders of President Diem and Kennedy
o Explanation of the Office of Special Operations--
Military Services Providing Support to Government Clandestine Activities
o The Economy Act of 1932: Handling The Money To Run Covert Operations
o Clarifying the Role of the National Security Agency (NSA)
o Abolishing the OSO and Moving Special Operations Into the JCS
2. Understanding The Secret Team in the Post-World War II Era
Part I
o In The Context of Its Time: The National Security Act of 1947
o The Creation of the National Security Council
o The Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report
o Opening the Door to CIA Clandestine Operations:
Shifting NSC Oversight from Directing to Approving Plans
o The Function of the Director of Central Intelligence:
Coordinating Intelligence of the Government Intelligence Community
o Clandestine Operations: Out of Control
If Not Directed by the National Security Council
o Four Categories of Military Personnel Employed by CIA
o Final Chapter in the History of War Making:
Going From Offense to Defense
o The Threat of Nuclear Weapons: Making War Planning Obsolete
o Creating a Manichaean Devil to Justify Spending $6 Trillion for a Cold War
o Secret Team Foundations:
Creation of the CIA Focal Point System Throughout The Government
Part II
o The Power of Indirection--
Military Units Financed and Controlled by the CIA
o Secret Team Growth: Focal Point Personnel Assuming Broader Roles
o Obtaining Everything Money Can Buy: The CIA Act of 1949 and
Secretary of Defense Johnson's paper on Covert Operations
o Employing the System of Reimbursement To Fund Unaccountable Activities
o Post WWII War Plans--CIA Begins Amassing
Its Own Stockpile of Military Equipment
o From the Chairman of the JCS On Down: "where the CIA was concerned
there were a lot of things no one seemed to know"
o The Importance of the CIA's Deputy Director of Support (DD/S) Side of the Agency
by the Time of the Bay Of Pigs
o Congressional Non-Oversight of Agency Funding
and Executive Branch Responsibility for CIA
o The Significance of the Sense of Infallibility
Leaders of the Agency Felt Imbued With
o The ST Running A Government Of Reaction: Develop and Control
All Secret Intelligence, And Brief The President On It Every Day
Part III
o Allen Dulles: Forging a Government of Reaction
o Dispersion of the OSO, Creation of the Office of SACSA
o DOD Adoption of a Counterinsurgency Role in the late Eisenhower Years
o NSAM 55--JFK's Attempt to Get CIA out of Clandestine Operations
o Chairman of the JCS: Exit Lyman Lemnitzer, Enter Maxwell Taylor
o Bay of Pigs Post-Mortem and the Dynamics of Personality:
Allen Dulles, Maxwell Taylor, and Bobby Kennedy
o Bay of Pigs Report: Taylor's Letter to the President
and the Origin of NSAM Nos. 55-57
o Understanding the Military Assistance Program (MAP)
o The Little Red Book's Influence on General Stilwell and Lansdale
o MAP as a Sensor to React To
o MAP's Ultimate Manifestation: Iran
o The Secret Team: Far Beyond the Capability of the CIA
o An Impossible Contradiction: Covert Operations Must Be Deniable
3. A Very Special Operation: The Assassination of President Kennedy
Part I
o What Would Entail Conducting A Proper Murder Investigation?
o In Context: August-November 1963
o Cancelling Secret Service, Military, and Police Units
in Dallas and Inserting False Actors in Their Place
o The Volume and Significance of the Photographic Evidence
o The Christchurch Star's Impact Upon the Facts of the Assassination
Part II
o The Existence of a High Cabal or Power Elite
o Magellan's Circumnavigation of the Globe:
The Philosophy That Derived From Knowing the World Was Finite
o The Development of the East India Companies and "Proprietary" Colonies
o Inventorying Earth: Haileybury College and the Roles of Malthus and Darwin
o Two Books: The End of Economic Man and The Road To Teheran
o The Changing Nature of Warfare: From a Military to an Economic Basis
o Human History and the Composition of the High Cabal
o Building a Bridge: Trusting Ourselves to Know How to Work and Live Together
Epilogue
Appendix A
* Prefaces to 3 Editions of The Secret Team
Appendix B
* Copies of NSAMs 263 and 273, and Some Primary Supporting Documents
Appendix C
* NSC 5412, "National Security Council Directive on Covert Operations"
Appendix D
* Krulak Letter Re: Dealey Plaza Photos And Lansdale Ident
Appendix E
* Copies of NSAMs 55, 56, and 57
Appendix F
* Prouty Letter Regarding JFK Assassination Conspiracy and Cover Story
Appendix G
* Organizations Dedicated To A Sustainable Future
Index
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Understanding Special Operations And Their Impact on The Vietnam War Era
1989 Interview with L. Fletcher Prouty Colonel USAF (Retired)
1999. Paper, 424 pp, index, $23.00 + $5 postage and handling.
ISBN 0-9673507-0-0
David T. Ratcliffe, Publisher
rat haus reality press
276 West Street
Biddeford, ME 04005 USA
207-571-9470
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