CIA ON THE TRAIL OF A BOOK ABOUT CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200460023-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: March 6, 1973
• Content Type: NSPR

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Prouty refused to tarn over
The cloak and-da '','r boys, the ealle`'s to the CL\, winch
at the Central Intelligence! had a me sen_cr aaitin i'or~eident, the CIA went to court
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Agency are trying co get anithem at the bookstore. wwe can
advance copy of it book whichiprovide the CIA, however,
is highly critical of the CIA'siwith some of the highlights:
"dirty tricks depart,nent."
ex-Air Force
The author
,
Col. L. Fletcher Prouty, wasi 9- The CIA. Prnut,y charges,
the Pentagon support officer
for the CIA over a nine-year
period IIc did everythin
trained agents in the .Maine
woods because of the similar-
iiv to the I-lussian fir forests.
them get away
Prouty'.
s
to block it book by one o
torr.lcr employees, Victor Mar-
chetti. But Prouty was never
on the CIA payroll. When we
asked the CIA whether an at-
templ would be made to sup-
press Prouty's book, a spokes-
man said: "There are no plans
whatsoever to do anything
about the book."
from supplying them with The n it, flew them to Norway
.laines Bond weapons to ship-1where they were hopped into
ping three dozen lobsters to
a C;IA bigwig. And lie has
written a book about it, "The
Secret Team."
To get the unedited galleys,
the CIA library approached
the distinguished S i d n e y
Emmet, bookstore only a few
blocks from the White House.
A representative of the hook-
store immediately called
Prouty and suggested he could
"help the. sale" of the book
by providing it copy of the
;alleys.
But Prouty. had been in in-
telli ',ence ton long to he an
easy touch. lIe agreed to meet:
with the Kramer represent.-
ath c and then secretly
I'- their eoi:versation.
Here is a partial transcript:
"17o you represent others?"
asked Prouty.
".1 can tell you who wants
this," confided the cniissary.
"They're on our baek.s-.the
CIA."
'They are?"
"Evidently someone was
going to present them v:ith a
copv the day before yester-
i plane which landed oil a hid-
den lake.
d The CIA skillfully man-
aged to keep out of the I'en-
tagon Papers almost all men-
tion of its assassination and
other "dirty tricks" opec-
atioris in South 1'ieiriam, 11-
lrses Prouty. Instead, the CIA
iarded tlie' Papers with ex-
,{iiiples ot, how c:oocl its in-
;ciIi'e:c'nce proved to be.
a In I:i59, one of CIA Chief,
=
Mien Dulles, spy pieties al
e g~.dly was shot ties- ri over
i;ussia. The crew tray caip-
tIt red, questioned by Soviet
nl.cllisicnce anct later quietly.
returned to the United :ttates.i
v were debriefed aflc,
TI ie
heir return, by, a;non.g others,;
lames iAlcCord, a lot met' CIA'
tan convicted in the Water-,
sate scandal.)
Jkven tiloiigh the late Presi-
}ent Kennedy ordered the
Joint Chiefs to keep a fight
rein on covert CIA military
-iperations ,il'te[' the t?. y of
Pigs debacle, rile CIA c?- -' cm
vented the order in ViR'ti,.un
day," said the represent-ative,`and the Pentagon supinely let
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