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Acknowledgments ix
Author's Note xi
Preface 1972 xvii
Preface to the Second Edition xxix
Preface: "The Secret Team II" 1997 xxxiii
The Secret Team
The "Secret Team"-the Real Power Structure 1
The Nature of Secret Team Activity: A Cuban Case Study 27
The CIA: How it Runs
An Overview of the CIA 65
Intelligence versus Secret Operations 65
Origins of the Agency and the Seeds of Secret Operations 77
A Simple Coup d'Etat to a Global Mechanism 90
From the Word of the Law to the Interpretation: President Kennedy Attempts to Put the CIA Under Control 111
"Defense" as a National Military Philosophy, the Natural Prey of the Intelligence Community 143
"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..." 165
From the Pines of Maine to the Birches of Russia: The Nature of Clandestine Operations 187
CIA: "The Cover Story" Intelligence Agency and the Real-Life Clandestine Operator 211
The Coincidence of Crises 237
The Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report in Action 263
The CIA: How it is Organized
The Dulles Era Begins 287
Personnel: The Chameleon Game 313
Communications: The Web of the World 331
Transportation: Anywhere in the World-Now 347
Logistics by Miracle 359
The CIA: Some Examples Throughout the World
Cold War: The Pyrrhic Gambit 373
Mission Astray, Soviet Gamesmanship 391
Defense, Containment, and Anti-Communism 403
The New Doctrine: Special Forces and the Penetration of the Mutual Security Program 425
Khrushchev's Challenge: The U-2 Dilemma 445
Time of Covert Action: U-2 to Kennedy Inaugural 457
Camelot: From the Bay of Pigs to Dallas, Texas 469
Five Presidents: "Nightmares We Inherited" 499
Appendices
Definition of Special Operations 511
Powers and Duties of the CIA 513
Training Under the Mutual Security Program 531
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Patricia Creamer
reviewed The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World on December 06, 2011
The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World
This book has to be read very carefully to gather the useful material (of which there is a great deal); Prouty has an agenda, and after a couple of rereadings it becomes pretty clear as to what the agenda is. Basically, Prouty blamed the entire Vietnam debacle on the CIA (most likely at the behest of his patrons in the uniformed services, the Joint Staff, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense). This book was published at the beginning of the national recriminations over Vietnam and how we got there.
When Prouty discusses the nuts-and-bolts mechanics of how the CIA worked during the Cold War, he's mostly accurate (the notion of an entire aircraft without ANY serial numbers on its parts strains credulity). When he gets into who did this, said that, or made a key decision, he's less reliable. The military made a series of bad judgments and worse decisions over how to handle Vietnam, and they do deserve censure for these mistakes--but Prouty blames it all on the CIA.
Again, his goal is to uphold the honor of the military--which, at the time this was written, was taking a beating in the press (interestingly enough, many of those administering said beating had extensive ties to the CIA).
Overall, this book is an interesting account of what sorts of things the CIA did and the mechanics of how they did it, and an artifact of a particularly fractious time in the national security establishment. As an account of Vietnam, it suffers from the defects mentioned above.
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