Saint Fletcher the Obscure

[Jan Klimkowski]

Prouty's JFK: The CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to Assassinate John F Kennedy, p236:

According to Lewin, the "Special Study Group" that produced this amazing report voted to keep it under wraps, because the members of the group felt that:

"The reader may not be prepared for some of its assumptions - for instance, that most medical advances are viewed more as problems than as progress; or that poverty is necessary and desirable, public postures by politicians to the contrary notwithstanding; or that standing armies are, among other things, social-welfare institutions in exactly the same sense as are old-people's homes and mental hospitals... that the space program and the controversial antimissile missile and fallout shelter programs are understood to have the spending of money, not the advancement of of science or national defense, as their principal goals, and that military draft policies are only remotely concerned with defense."