# L. Fletcher Prouty - **Who:** Leroy Fletcher Prouty (1917–2001 ⚠️), a retired US Air Force colonel who served as a Pentagon liaison to the CIA for "special operations" in the 1950s–60s ⚠️. He's best known for JFK-assassination claims and as the model for "Mr. X" in Oliver Stone's *JFK* (1991) ⚠️. He wasn't a geologist or chemist. - **The oil story:** in interviews he said oil was declared a "fossil fuel" at an **1892 Geneva** meeting, to make it seem scarce and to benefit Rockefeller. Fact-checkers found no record of this ([Full Fact](https://fullfact.org/online/fake-post-oil-named-fossil-fuel/), [Lead Stories](https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2021/02/fact-check-no-proof-found-that-john-d-rockefeller-paid-to-have-petroleum-designated-a-fossil-fuel-to-drive-price-up.html)). The real 1892 Geneva Congress dealt with **organic-chemistry nomenclature**. The phrase "fossil fuel" was in print by 1759. - **Why he matters here:** most "Rockefeller coined fossil fuel" posts in this topic trace back to his clips, which are often re-posted with new dates. - **In this vault:** [[Post Analysis - duncan_shona on Fletcher Prouty and the 1892 Fossil Fuel Definition (2026-11-07)]] · [[Post Analysis - QuriousCat_ and casareilly on Rockefeller and the Term Fossil Fuel (2026-11-06)]] · [[Post Analysis - Jim_Cornelius on Boerhaave 1741 and Rockefeller's Oil Prices (2026-11-07)]] · [[Abiogenic Oil and the Fossil Fuel Debate]] · [[Research and Evidence]]