#1189 – Col. Fletcher Prouty

From the 1989 interview with Dave Ratcliffe The National Security Act of 1947 The Creation of the National Security Council The Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report Opening the Door to CIA Clandestine Operations: Shifting NSC Oversight from Directing to Approving Plans The Function of the Director of Central Intelligence: Coordinating Intelligence of the Government Intelligence Community Clandestine Operations: Out of Control If Not Directed by the National Security Council Four Categories of Military Personnel Employed by CIA Final Chapter in the History of War Making: Going From Offense to Defense The Threat of Nuclear Weapons: Making War Planning Obsolete Creating a Manichaean Devil to Justify Spending $6 Trillion for a Cold War Secret Team Foundations:Creation of the CIA Focal Point System Throughout The Government The Power of Indirection - Military Units Financed and Controlled by the CIA Secret Team Growth: Focal Point Personnel Assuming Broader Roles Obtaining Everything Money Can Buy:The CIA Act of 1949 and Secretary of Defense Johnson's paper on Covert Operations Employing the System of Reimbursement To Fund Unaccountable Activities Post WWII War Plans--CIA Begins Amassing Its Own Stockpile of Military Equipment From the Chairman of the JCS On Down: "where the CIA was concerned there were a lot of things no one seemed to know" The Importance of the CIA's Deputy Director of Support (DD/S) Side of the Agency by the Time of the Bay Of Pigs Congressional Non-Oversight of Agency Funding and Executive Branch Responsibility for CIA The Significance of the Sense of Infallibility Leaders of the Agency Felt Imbued With The ST Running A Government Of Reaction:Develop and Control All Secret Intelligence,And Brief The President On It Every Day Allen Dulles: Forging a Government of Reaction Dispersion of the OSO, Creation of the Office of SACSA DOD Adoption of a Counterinsurgency Role in the late Eisenhower Years NSAM 55 - JFK's Attempt to Get CIA out of Clandestine Operations Chairman of the JCS: Exit Lyman Lemnitzer, Enter Maxwell Taylor Bay of Pigs Post-Mortem and the Dynamics of Personality: Allen Dulles, Maxwell Taylor, & RFK Bay of Pigs Report: Taylor's Letter to the President & the Origin of NSAM 55-57 Understanding the Military Assistance Program (MAP) The Little Red Book's Influence on General Stilwell and Lansdale MAP as a Sensor to React To MAP's Ultimate Manifestation: Iran The Secret Team: Far Beyond the Capability of the CIA An Impossible Contradiction: Covert Operations Must Be Deniable