"[The United States is run by a] Secret Team, [an] inner sanctum of a new religious order... The power of the Team derives from its vast intra-governmental undercover infrastructure and its direct relationship with great private industries, mutual funds and investment houses, universities, and the news media, including foreign and domestic publishing houses. All members of the Team remain in the power center whether in office with the incumbent administration or out of office with the hardcore set. They simply rotate to and from official jobs and the business world or the pleasant haven of academe."
Colonel (retired) L. Fletcher Prouty
Focal Point Liaison Officer between the Pentagon and the CIA from 1955 to 1963
Writing in 1973










