The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World"Offers uncommonly penetrating insight. A rare glimpse into Covert and Black Operations. New York Times Bestselling author, Governor Jesse Ventura, from his Foreword. The Secret Team, L. Fletcher Prouty's expose of the CIA's brutal methods of maintaining national security during the Cold War, was first published in the 1970s. However, virtually all copies of the book disappeared upon distribution, having been purchased en masse by shady "private