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    This document summarizes a book called 'The Secret Team' by L. Fletcher Prouty about the CIA and its covert operations around the world. It describes how the CIA was founded after WWII to help combat the Cold War and conduct clandestine activities. It also discusses the elite group known as the 'Secret Team' within the CIA that carries out secret operations.

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    This document summarizes a book called 'The Secret Team' by L. Fletcher Prouty about the CIA and its covert operations around the world. It describes how the CIA was founded after WWII to help combat the Cold War and conduct clandestine activities. It also discusses the elite group known as the 'Secret Team' within the CIA that carries out secret operations.

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    Staff writer. “Elite Group Forms ‘Secret Team.’” Review of The Secret Team by L. Fletcher Prouty. Galesburg Register-Mail [Galesburg, Illinois] (March 6, 1974), p. 13.

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    This document summarizes a book called 'The Secret Team' by L. Fletcher Prouty about the CIA and its covert operations around the world. It describes how the CIA was founded after WWII to help combat the Cold War and conduct clandestine activities. It also discusses the elite group known as the 'Secret Team' within the CIA that carries out secret operations.

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    Forms
    'Secret Team'
    ''The Secret Team: The CIA
    and It.a Allies" by L. l'letcher
    Prouty; pub., Ballantine Bookl,

    "The Secret Team'~ ls a be-


    hind-the-scenes b o o k that re-
    veals all the q,ionace ·oper•
    tions, clandestine -actwit.ies, ae-
    crets, and . orp-ntr.atdom that
    oonbine in ,the ~ network
    \\tlOse core m the Central In-
    telligence Aigenc-/. It is a Nri-
    ous look a-t the OLA, its hi.ttory,
    its structure and involvement
    in U.S. Foreign Policy, ·w.i t b
    emphasis on covert operation
    all over the wortld-Ouba, awe,
    Vietnam, Genn_.y, Honpry.
    Sponsll'ed by · President Tru-
    man and e.ttab1Wwd by' an ¥t
    of CooireSS, lie CIA ·w• .DitW-
    ly founded as : a data coordi-
    nating, intelti,gfflcie ptMring
    agency to help combat the Cold
    War that erupted af.ter World
    War M. 'l1lis elite p-oup, the
    "Secret Team," is a brain trust
    of military men, scientists, t>um-
    nes.1 cb'namos, intelileetuaas, and
    economists, who ·secretJy can,
    out their. work ol "IIMUDI or-
    ganizaticns, SP)'U)I CII . CU' OWll
    goverment, lnfiLtnUnc mll1111rf
    police_farces of friendly . . . . .
    lmplementing blklnd-rm . tac-
    tics with comnunist areas, and
    developing "super--snooping" de-
    vices. Its power today is inde-
    1
    terminable.
    The author, Col. L. Fletcher
    Prouty, U.S. Air Force, Ret.
    was the official Focal Point Of-
    ficer for the Air Fcrce and then I
    for the Department of Deleme
    b- contracts wi1b the CIA on
    ·aR matffl pertabmw to the
    military support of Special Op,
    eratiions, (clandestineactwitdes).
    Because he wu an Mr Foree
    briefing officer, he was not sub-
    ject to the contractual a-gree-
    ment that binds au ex-OJA .menj
    to secrecy. - .
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