Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty interview with Bruce Kanier 12 October 1994

Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty interview 1994 Discusses -

The censorship exercised by the newspaper editors
The advantages of hemp
Tungsten mining in Vietnam
The garden of eden in the world was Southeast Asia
Saigon was called the Paris of the Orion
It was mindless to destroy a beautiful place like Vietnam
Most likely one of the reasons for the Vietnam war was to get American businesses to replace the French
Is petroleum a fossil fuel?
Generally, no fossils are found below 16,000 feet
The oil depletion allowance
Video: President Kennedy calls out the steel companies (1962)
"It has long been a Kennedy tradition: not to get mad but to get even. I fully realize that
I shall not be able to get even during my first term in office. But during my second term,
you are going to see some important changes" - President Kennedy
Why was Governor Connally in the same car as the President?
Lansdale and Col. Prouty knew each other since 1952
Lansdale was sent to the Philippines in 1952 to overthrow President Elpidio Quirino
And replace him with the new President Ramon Magsaysay
Col. Napoleon Valeriano trained Cuban exiles before the bay of pigs invasion
Valeriano became an American citizen
A million Vietnamese migrated from the North to the South before the war
The US Navy transported 660,000 Vietnamese from the North to the South
330,000 were moved by CIA's airline Civil Air Transport (CAT)
On September 2, 1953, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said "In Indochina, a desperate
struggle is in its eighth year....We are already contributing largely in matériel and money to the
combined efforts of the French and of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia."
Chiang Kai-Shek's presence at the Tehran conference
Article from Parade Magazine, Feb 1986:
Why Stalin Never Forgave Eleanor Roosevelt by Elliott Roosevelt: Page 1, Page 2
The cold war really began before the second world war ended
Our governments do not know how to operate without the threat of war
Report from Iron Mountain by Leonard C. Lewin
New York Times Book Review: Report from Iron Mountain: The Guest Word by Leonard Lewin
The degradation of the infrastructure in the US

Leroy Fletcher Prouty (January 24, 1917 – June 5, 2001)
Served as Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President John F. Kennedy. A colonel in the United States Air Force, he retired from military service to become a bank executive. He subsequently became a critic of U.S. foreign policy, particularly the covert activities of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which he believed was working on behalf of a secret world elite.

Prouty's commentary on the Kennedy assassination circulated widely from the 1970s-90s, as a key source for conspiracy theories about it. He was the inspiration for the character "Mr. X" in Oliver Stone's film JFK