''The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World'' is a book by

L. Fletcher Prouty Leroy Fletcher Prouty (January 24, 1917 – June 5, 2001)Carlson, Michael"L Fletcher Prouty: US officer obsessed by the conspiracy theory of President Kennedy's assassination"( obituary). ''The Guardian'' (June 21, 2001). Archived frothe original ...

, a former colonel in the

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, first published by

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in 1973.

Publication history

After initial publication in 1973,

republished ''The Secret Team'' in 1992 and 1997. The book was published again in 2008 and 2011 by

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, the latter edition including an introduction by

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Reception

In ''

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,'' an official journal and flagship publication of the

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, Walter Pforzheimer described reading the book as "like trying to push a penny with one's nose through molten fudge."Staff writer
"Book Reviews in ''Studies'': Intelligent Literature About Intelligence Literature."
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'', vol. 49, no. 4, Special Issue: Fifty Years of ''Studies in Intelligence'' (2005)
p. 4.
Published by the

. Despite what he grants as Prouty's "considerable background and knowledge," he says the book is punctuated by "faulty recollections" and "unwarranted conclusions." In a later issue, a staff writer provides a retrospective of books reviewed in ''Studies in Intelligence'' and wonders aloud "whether word ever got back to routy" ''

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'' magazine noted that "marvelous anecdotes about the CIA's dirty-trick department are accompanied by a troubling overstatement best suggested by the subtitle, "The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World." Assassination researcher and former

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officer

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was less than enthusiastic about Prouty’s book. He was particularly turned off by the claim that

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was a

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agent: "He hemmed and hawed a bit on this when confronted with an unequivocal denial made by E. to Fred Graham and to Prouty by phone. Thus he looses the legitimate point." Weisberg, Harold
Review of ''The Secret Team''
by

. Harold Weisberg Collection,

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(April 2, 1973)

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