[…] the CIA’s role in Indonesia in 1958 and moves on. When I came across this I looked at his bibliography: there is no Philip Agee, no L. Fletcher Prouty, no Victor Marchetti, no John Stockwell. He has written a history of the CIA ignoring all the Agency’s main defectors and whistle-blowers. Yet in his […]
[…] left Unison because, as he told me in a letter, he didn’t trust Young because he was secretive and he didn’t know what Young’s objectives were. L. Fletcher Prouty died on 5 June 2001. Most of the obits noted that Prouty had served as the model for ‘Mr. X’, the character played by Donald […]
[…] of the covert activities described in Bloch and Fitzgerald’s British Intelligence and Covert Action reviewed in this issue. The Pentagon Papers may have been a CIA operation: Fletcher Prouty has long maintained this, and he was sitting at the focal point between the Agency and the Pentagon. And Verrier has certainly had an awful […]
[…] Who they? you ask. That I don’t know. Details at http://www.directa.force9.co.uk Heavy weather An impressive reworking of the evidence that the Libyans did not kill WPC Yvonne Fletcher was published in Squall and is – or was – on their Website at www.squall.co.uk/yes/ind2.html Drug wars and Another view of the Afghani mujahidin funding their […]
[…] was (a) investigated at close range, (b) financially ruined and (c) eased out of rocket research. Or he could have been a combination of all three. L. Fletcher Prouty says in the book that he thinks Hubbard’s service records may have been ‘sheep dipped’. Whatever the history of this episode, Parsons, post-Hubbard, attracted further […]
[…] and reasonable. Lashmar ends the book unclear as to how much of this programme was known about by the politicians who were nominally in charge of it. Fletcher Prouty discussed the same question in his 1973 The Secret Team and concluded that the politicians knew very little. This is an important contribution to the […]
[…] 15% to prices; elsewhere add 20%. IMOs, sterling cheques or US dollars only, please. The Secret Team David Guyatt points out that the 1997 third edition of Fletcher Prouty’s classic 1973 book about the CIA, The Secret Team, is now available in e-format at http://www.ratical.com It comes complete with index, appendices, prefaces etc. It […]
[…] of note. The issues of Sept/October and November/December 95 carry a very striking piece in two parts (though the beef is in the second part) by L. Fletcher Prouty on the role of the US insurance business in the US Missing In Action (MIA) story. Prouty points out that National League of Families of […]
[…] in Lobster 30 (p. 21). He wanted me to make it clear that he has never said, in print, that he thought he had killed PC Yvonne Fletcher. In this issue of Lobster Page 2 begins an extract from a chapter from the new book by Peter Dale Scott. Scott is still the boss […]
[…] articles were Vialls’ fictionalised account of his experience of being a mind control victim; that in New Dawn was Vialls’ analysis of the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher. None of them contain any of Vialls political opinions; indeed, we have no idea what Vialls’ political opinions are. Neither, manifestly, does Searchlight.(2) The Vialls ‘book’ […]
