Mr. X (Donald Sutherland) in the movie JFK by Oliver Stone was based off of the military career of Col. L. Fletcher Prouty.Prouty’s military career started before Pearl Harbour, where he was assigned as a Horse Cavalryman.After horses were replaced with tanks in 1941, Prouty joined the Tank Corps under General Creighton Abrams.Abrams went on to be the Senior Military officer in Vietnam during the Vietnam War from 1968-1972.Already a licensed pilot in the Tank Corp, the Air Force recruited Prouty; he transferred quickly to flight school in Africa.Prouty served in the Africa Middle East wing of the Air Transport Command.Prouty being sent to the Cairo Conference in 1943 was the start of Prouty’s career with clandestine operations.The Cairo Conference was attended by Churchill, Roosevelt & Chiang Kai-Shek from China.From there, Prouty was sent directly to the Tehran Conference between Churchill, Roosevelt & Stalin met for the 1st time.Why haven’t historians been told that Chiang Kai-Shek was ALSO at the Tehran Conference?Prouty knows Chiang Kai-Shek attended the Tehran Conference because he was the pilot that flew him there.A friend of Prouty’s was the pilot who flew Elliot Roosevelt to the same Tehran Conference in 1943.After the conferences Prouty was sent to Pacific, flying heavy transport, mostly patients to the hospital, until the war ended.The unit Prouty was flying in was asked to fly immediately into Japan once the war was over in August 1945.The only air base that the US hadn’t bombed in anticipation of invading was the major underground Japanese base at Atsugi.The CIA utilized the Atsugi base, where men like Lee Harvey Oswald were later stationed.When Prouty flew back to Okinawa he noticed a huge stockpile of military equipment being loaded onto US ships.The Harbour Master told Prouty the equipment was being sent to Vietnam and Korea.Who had given the orders for the relocation of the military equipment? How early were plans made to invade Vietnam?Prouty was ordered by the Army to report to Yale University to help start a new aviation program.Prouty taught at Yale for three years before being sent to NY to write a text book on Aeronautics for the US Army.After publishing the first text book, Prouty was asked to write another book on rockets and missiles.Given full authority by the government to go anywhere, and interview anyone, Prouty interviewed Werner Von Braun.Von Braun explained to Prouty in 1949 how he would land a rocket on the moon.After helping to set up the NORAD operation in Colorado Springs, after a year Prouty was sent to Tokyo.While the US was an occupation force in Japan, the US military ran the country while Japan was rebuilt.Tokyo had been completely devastated. Prouty was installed as the airport manager for the International Tokyo Airport.Prouty had never seen anywhere as destroyed as Tokyo was by the end of the war.In the Korean war period, after the airport was given back to the Japanese, Prouty helped fly supplies to Lansdale.In 1952-1953 CIA’s Edward G. Lansdale built up a covert army in the Philippines under the leadership of Ramon Magsaysay.President Quirino had been the leader of the Philippine government before Magsaysay was installed in 1953.In 1955 Prouty was sent back to US to attend the Armed Forces Staff College run by the Joints Chiefs of Staff.Prouty was then brought into the Pentagon.In 1955 under Eisenhower, CIA would get assistance and funds from military conduits to support their covert operations.In order to enable this plan, an office and system had to be created to handle this global operation.As Chief of Special Operations for the Air Force, Prouty was given the task of heading and creating the office and system.Lansdale was also in the Pentagon at this time, developing programs which later turned into the Special Forces.With the election of Kennedy, Macnamara disbanded this office and replaced part of it with the new DIA program.At this point, Macnamara ordered Prouty to set up an office at the Joints Chief of Staff to handle all logistics of CIA covert ops.This corresponded with the JFK administration, with Prouty retaining this position until JFK’s death, retiring in 1964.Oliver Stone read Prouty’s book, “The Secret Team”, inspired him to research vital questions. Why was JFK shot?Most people believe that JFK’s murder was the result of a conspiracy.Oliver Stone built on the book, “The Secret Team”, adding to the “Man X” section.Covert operations is a reaction to information learned or events happening in foreign countries.Wars have changed since WWII. The impact of the hydrogen bomb has changed war forever.Wars are started by people with financial interests in the war.
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