L. Fletcher Prouty. "The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World"

The mystery behind all of this lies in the area we know as "Clandestine activity", "intelligence operations", "secrecy", and "cover stories", used on a national and international scale. It is the object of this book to bring reality and understanding into this vast unknown area.

From 1955 through 1963, if some official wanted a briefing on a highly classified subject involving the CIA, author would be one of those called upon to prepare the material and to make the briefing. At the same time, CIA wanted support from the Air Force for some covert operation, author was the officer who had been officially designated to provide this special operational support to the CIA. Preparations for one of the most important of operations, covered in some detail in this book.



TOC
PART I THE SECRET TEAM
Chapter 1 The "Secret Team" – the Real Power Structure
Chapter 2 The Nature of Secret Team Activity: A Cuban Case Study
PART II THE CIA: HOW IT RUNS
Chapter 3 An Overview of the CIA
Chapter 4 From the Word of the Law to the Interpretation: President Kennedy Attempts to Put the CIA Under Control
Chapter 5 "Defense" as a National Military Philosophy, the Natural Prey of the Intelligence Community
Chapter 6 "It Shall Be the Duty of the Agency: To Advise, to Coordinate, to Correlate and Evaluate and Disseminate and to Perform Services of Common Concern…"
Chapter 7 From the Pines of Maine to the Birches of Russia: The Nature of Clandestine Operations
Chapter 8 CIA: "The Cover Story" Intelligence Agency and the Real-Life Clandestine Operator
Chapter 9 The Coincidence of Crises
Chapter 10 The Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report in Action
PART III THE CIA: HOW IT IS ORGANIZED
Chapter 11 The Dulles Era Begins
Chapter 12 Personnel: The Chameleon Game
Chapter 13 Communications: The Web of the World
Chapter 14 Transportation: Anywhere in the World – Now
Chapter 15 Logistics by Miracle
PART IV THE CIA: SOME EXAMPLES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
Chapter 16 Cold War: The Pyrrhic Gambit
Chapter 17 Mission Astray, Soviet Gamesmanship
Chapter 18 Defense, Containment, and Anti-Communism
Chapter 19 The New Doctrine: Special Forces and
the Penetration of the Mutual Security Program
Chapter 20 Khrushchev's Challenge: The U-2 Dilemma
Chapter 21 A Time of Covert Action: U-2 to Kennedy Inaugural
Chapter 22 Camelot: From the Bay of Pigs to Dallas, Texas
Chapter 23 Five Presidents: "Nightmares We Inherited"
APPENDICES:
I. Definition of Special Operations
II. Powers and Duties of the CIA
III. Training Under the Mutual Security Program