
Black Op Radio
#1322 – 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

