Recommended book on CIA, by someone who had to deal with them and the NSC during Vietnam War: The Secret Team, Col. Fletcher Prouty, 1972 https://www.goodread

Recommended book on CIA, by someone who had to deal with them and the NSC during Vietnam War: The Secret Team, Col. Fletcher Prouty, 1972 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2438756.The_Secret_Team https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2438756.The_Secret_Team In full: https://un-forum.org/books/library/EBOOK%20COLLECTION%20(PART1)%20%5BCSI%5D%5Bh33t%5D/The%20Secret%20Team%20-%20By%20Fletcher%20Prouty.pdf https://un-forum.org/books/library/EBOOK%20COLLECTION%20(PAR... From intro: "For nine consecutive, long years during those crucial days from 1955 through January 1, 1964, I was one of those briefing officers. I had the unique assignment of being the "Focal Point" officer for contacts between the CIA and the Department of Defense on matters pertaining to the military support of the Special Operations[1] of that Agency. In that capacity I worked with Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles, several Secretaries of Defense, and Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as many others in key governmental places. My work took me to more than sixty countries and to CIA offices and covert activities all over the world--from such hot spots as Saigon and to such remote places as the South Pole. Yes, there have been secret operations in Antarctica. "It was my job not only to brief these men, but to brief them from the point of view of the CIA so that I might win approval of the projects presented and of the accompanying requests for support from the military in terms of money, manpower, facilities, and materials. I was, during this time, perhaps the best informed "Focal Point" officer among the few who operated in this very special area. The role of the briefing officer is quiet, effective, and most influential; and, in the CIA, specialized in the high art of top level indoctrination. ... "Henry Kissinger was a briefing officer. General John Vogt was one of the best. Desmond Fitzgerald, Tracy Barnes, Ed Lansdale, and "Brute" Krulak, in their own specialties, were top-flight briefing officers on subjects that until the publication of the "Pentagon Papers," few people had ever seen in print or had ever even contemplated. ... I have not chosen to reveal and to expose "unreleased" classified documents; but I do believe that those that have been revealed, both in the "Pentagon Papers" and elsewhere, need to be interpreted and fully explained. I am interested in setting forth and explaining what "secrecy" and the "cult of containment" really mean and what they have done to our way of life and to our country. Furthermore, I want to correct any disinformation that may have been given by those who have tried to write on these subjects in other related histories."