Fletcher Prouty
 Fletcher Prouty    (whistleblower) | |
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| Born | January 24, 1917 |
| Died | June 5, 2001 (Age 84) |
A US military establishment insider who fingered Edward Lansdale as the orchestrator of the JFK assassination. | |
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Official narrative
L. Fletcher Prouty served as Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff under 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.
CIA Origins
Prouty, an early critic of the CIA, has 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.
JFK Assassination claims
In 1975, Prouty appeared with Richard Sprague at a news conference in New York and presented photographic evidence of a conspiracy.[1] 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.[1] He also drew attention to the suspicious actions of the "Umbrella Man".[1]
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". |
