Understanding Special Operations

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and Their Impact on the Vietnam Era

Interviews with Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, USAF retired
May 5-8, 1989

by Dave Ratcliffe

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For those interested, audio cassette recordings of the interviews are available. There are 8 tapes in all and the cost is $10 per tape. California residents please add sales tax per the rate in your local area.

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1. Autobiographical Accounts of 23 Years Service in The USAF (3 tapes)
   
   Part I, 1941-1945:
   • Entering the Army, the Air Corps, and Air Transport Command
   • Transport and VIP Pilot in North Africa, the Middle East, Eurasia, and the West Pacific
   
   Part II, 1945-1961:
   • On Okinawa: The Surrender of Japan, & 500,000 manpack Re-Routed to Korea and Indochina
   • 1946-48: Inaugurating the Air Force's ROTC Program at Yale
   • 1950-1951: A New Air Defense Command
   • 1952-1954: Managing Tokyo International Airport & Heavy-Transport Flying
   • 1955: Attending the Armed Forces Staff College
   • 1955: Assignment to New Position of "Focal Point" Officer for Air Force Support of U.S. Government Clandestine Operations
   • Coordination of the CIA: How Covert Operations Are Run
   • The Suez Crisis of 1956
   • The CIA in Europe
   • Nuclear Warfare: the CIA becomes a Fourth Force
   • Cuba, 1959-1960: From Over-The-Beach Work to Invasion
   
   Part III, 1961-1963:
   • Experiences of and Perspectives on the Bay of Pigs
   • The Results of CIA Covert Military Commanders in Vietnam: The League of Families for the Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia
   • JFK Preparations To Get Out Of Vietnam: The Taylor/McNamara Trip Report of October 1963 and NSAM 263
   • The Murders of President Diem and Kennedy
   • Explanation of the Office of Special Operations: Military Services Providing Support to Government Clandestine Activities
   • Handling The Money To Run Covert Operations
   • Clarifying the Role of the National Security Agency (NSA)
   • Abolishing the OSO and Moving Special Operations Into the JCS

2. The Secret Team (3 tapes)
   Discussions based upon Prouty's book, The Secret Team, The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World, published by Prentice Hall, 1973. Quoting from the Preface:

         From President to ambassador, Cabinet officer to commanding general, and from senator to executive assistant--all these men have their sources of information and guidance. Most of this information and guidance is the result of carefully laid schemes and ploys of pressure groups. In this influential coterie one of the most interesting and effective roles is that played by the behind-the-scenes, faceless, nameless, ubiquitous briefing officer. . .
         For nine consecutive, long years . . . I was one of those briefing officers. I had the unique assignment of being the Focal Point officer for contacts between the CIA and the Department of Defense on matters pertaining to the military support of the Special Operations (a name given in most cases, . . . to any clandestine, covert, undercover, or secret operations by the government or by someone, U.S. citizen or a foreign national. . . ) of that agency.

3. The Assassination Of JFK And The Existence Of "The High Cabal" (2 tapes)
   Colonel Prouty discusses the assassination of President Kennedy, highlighting some of the major contradictions and fantasies of the "official mythology" regarding this seminal post World War II event. Included among the evidence of the conspiracy behind the murder of JFK is Prouty's own experience in New Zealand the day of the killing. He discusses the High Cabal citing referrals to such an entity by the likes of Winston Churchill and Buckminister Fuller.