THE SECRET TEAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200460005-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 19, 1973
• Content Type: NSPR

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The glue that binds this fraternity he continues, is evange
listic zeal in stamping out "Communism," the mystique of pull-
ing the invisible reins of government, and the shei,r thrill of the
fun and games of spying and clandestine military operations.
ALTHOUGH he was never a CIA man, Prouty was the De-
partment
of Defense contact man through whom the CIA re-
quested logistical support for its secret operations.
Prouty retraces the course of the CIA from its creation as an
intelligence-gathering body, through its 26-year-long voyage
around the constraints of the National Security Act into clandes-
tine military operations around the world. And he focuses on the..
k.e t
Machiavellian Machinations
As Prouty sees it,.Dulles, the pipe-smoking professorish-look-
ing lawyer with the steel-rimmed glasses, whose brother, John
Foster Dulles was Eisenhower's secretary of state, was the
Machiavelli. '
A \'i ewe- of die CIA: WS' hen
ACCORDING to Prouty,.Dulles built the CIA's secret opera-
tions army on a proviso of the National Security Act (194$)
which foresaw the possible necessity of occasional clandestine
activities - but only when the CIA's controlling body, the Na-
tional Security Council, would direct it to engage in secret oper-
ations.
The National Security Council includes the President and
Vice-President, the heads of the, departments of state and de-
fense, the secretaries of the artny, navy and air force, and
others.
Prouty recreates the momentous years just after World War
II when the nation was caught up in a national hysteria over the
spread of communism and the apprehension that someone was
going to steal America's formula for making anatomic weapon.
It was against this background, he recalls, that the CIA and
its parent, the NSC, were create([ in 19-17.
A year later, a fretful Congress demanded to know if the CIA
was really doing its job tinder its first director, Admiral Sidney
Sourers. President Truman commissioned a study of the agency
by three wartime secret-inielligence-and-secret-operations vet-
erans, Allen Dulles, William H. Jackson and Mathias F. Correa.
WRITTEN in the tall of 1915, the report was dominated by
Dulles' views, claims Prouty. In it, he presses for a CIA that
combines the gat-lieri: ? of intelligence with the launching of
secret operations - a concept caged tip: ithin narrow limits by the
CIA's watchdog overseer, the National Security Council, which
,was created at the same time as the CIA itself.
The atchdola- B. ecoixles the. faster
THE SECF\ET TEAM, by L. Fletcher Prouty (Prentice-Hall $8.95)
The Central intelli--ence Ae;ency was created in 1947 to
gather and distribute information affecting the security of the
U.S. to appropriate agencies and departments of gor,e,-nment.
President Truman didn't want it to be am. dung mere than
that. Congress specifically corralled the CIA bamad the National
Security Act to mahn sure it would never tnouut secret military
operations ce [olden 4hores as its wartime predece,isor, the
OSS, had don sa : 'cccssfuI V.
R-t ai years later, warns a retired U.S. Air Force colonel
,Lhn ,,orked %vith the CIA. the agency routinely wages secret
itiars in foreign lands, and in effect controls America's foreign
policy.
And tit.rt's not the worst of L. Fletcher Prot.ty's warning in
"The Secret Team."
lie- stays the CIA is the nucleus of avast nether fralrrn!t.v of
miliary men who were once on a 110 the a^ _ , CIA
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a.luc:ni no:. hue:: in the Ir.;sit es and nr, , r.tic co leis, and
cover annuls o planted in other :uv,:: ntncnl dept rtments
and agencies and now grown to positions of po er and intlu-
encc, ... . , .
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