Fletcher Prouty
 Fletcher Prouty      (whistleblower) | |
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| Born | Leroy Fletcher Prouty January 24, 1917 Springfield, Massachusetts |
| Died | June 5, 2001 (Age 84) McLean, Virginia |
| Exposed | John F. Kennedy/Assassination/Perpetrators |
A US military establishment insider who fingered Edward Lansdale as the orchestrator of the JFK assassination. | |
L. Fletcher Prouty served as Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff under US President John F. Kennedy. A former colonel in the United States Air Force, he retired from military service to become a bank executive, and subsequently became a critic of US foreign policy, particularly the covert activities of the CIA about which he had considerable inside knowledge.
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CIA "focal point network"
Prouty was an early critic of the CIA who argued that the organisation was a clandestine arm of the secret government from the outset. In his important book The Secret Team, he describes the claim that the CIA exists to provide intelligence information to the president as "the CIA’s most important cover story", a cover story designed to obscure the CIA’s main interest, what he calls "fun and games", i.e. clandestine operations. He states that employees were placed in other US government institutions whose true loyalty was to their CIA commanders, allowing them to silently subvert other government operations. He stated that Allen Dulles commanded this "focal point network" until his firing by John F. Kennedy, until command passed to Richard Helms.[1]
JFK Assassination claims
“The Kennedy assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite coterie of enormously powerful people who are not of one nation, one ethnic grouping, or one overridingly important business group. They are a power unto themselves for whom those others work. Neither is this power elite of recent origin. Its roots go deep into the past.”
Fletcher Prouty (1992) [2]
In 1975, Prouty appeared with Richard Sprague at a news conference in New York and presented photographic evidence of a conspiracy.[3] He suggested that the assassination was a coup d'état to stop the President from taking control of the CIA after the Bay of Pigs. Prouty pointed out that the movement of Kennedy after a bullet struck his head was consistent with a shot from the grassy knoll.[3] He also drew attention to the suspicious actions of the "Umbrella Man".[3]
A Document by Fletcher Prouty
| Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
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| File:The Secret Team.pdf | book | 1973 | JFK/Assassination CIA Bay of Pigs Invasion | An unauthorised history of the CIA from its origins to the Kennedy assassination. Prouty suggested that the assassination was a coup d'état to stop the President from taking control of the CIA after the Bay of Pigs disaster. He also points out that the movement of Kennedy after a bullet struck his head was consistent with a shot from the grassy knoll. He also drew attention to the suspicious actions of the "Umbrella Man". |
References
- ↑ http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/740
- ↑ http://www.hermes-press.com/cabal1.htm JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy
- ↑ a b c
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