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Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with Anthony Salerno documented document

“Edwards stated that Harvey had asked him to arrange a contact with Rosselli and that a meeting had been set for April 9…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.148

Tracy Barnes relationship_with Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“Bissell's deputy Tracy Barnes approved on behalf of Bissell…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.195

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with William Harvey reported document

“Harvey testified that the meetings occurred after his initial discussion of Executive Action with Bissell…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.197

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with Bronson Tweedy documented document

“On September 19 1960 Bissell and Tweedy cabled Station Officer Hedgman to expect a messenger from CIA Headquarters…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.66

John Hedgman met_with Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“In late November Hedgman attended a meeting of CIA officers from African Stations with Bissell and Tweedy…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.65

Michael Mulroney refused Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“Mulroney had refused to accept the assassination assignment from Bissell…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.59

Brian Mulroney met_with Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“Mulroney was 'sure that he 'related everything to Hedgman about his conversations with Bissell concerning the assassination of Lumumba'…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.56

Michael Mulroney met_with Richard M. Bissell Jr. reported document

“Harvey said that in a later conversation with Bissell Bissell told him that he had asked Mulroney to undertake such an operation…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.54

Richard M. Bissell Jr. recruited Frank Harvey documented document

“Bissell specifically recalled assigning Harvey to investigate the capability…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.198

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with Walt Rostow reported document

“Bissell also said he had been convinced by telephone conversations with Rostow and Bundy after his first appearances that since Rostow's duties in 1961 had nothing to do with covert action he had 'never discussed Executive Action with Rosto…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.199

Richard M. Bissell Jr. linked_to Project RIFLE reported document

“Two days later he said 'There is little doubt in my mind that Project RIFLE was discussed with Rostow and possibly Bundy.'…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.198

Richard M. Bissell Jr. targeted_for_regime_change Fidel Castro documented document

“Harvey gave Rosselli the poison pills for use against Castro…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.175

David Atlee Phillips met_with Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“The Support Chief testified that he had called Edwards and cleared the placement of an electronic "bug in the apartment prior to the installation of the tap…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.92

David Atlee Phillips met_with Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“Edwards informed Bissell that contact had been made with the gambling syndicate…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.90

Richard M. Bissell Jr. appointed William Harvey documented document

“Sometime in early 1961 Bissell instructed Harvey who was then Chief of a CIA Foreign Intelligence staff to establish an executive action capability…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.195

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed Covert Operations documented document

“As pointed out by the former head of covert operations Mr Richard Bissell there have been many short-term tactical victories but very few lasting successes…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.10

Richard M. Bissell Jr. worked_for CIA documented document

“Former Deputy Director for Plans Richard Bissell testified…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.18

Richard M. Bissell Jr. worked_for CIA documented document

“DDP Richard Bissell Director of CIA's covert operations branch…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.29

Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of Patrice Lumumba documented document

“On August 19 DDP Richard Bissell... signed a follow-up cable to Leopoldville saying 'You are authorized proceed with operation'…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.29

Joseph Scheider met_with Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“Scheider's testimony generally substantiated this account although he acknowledged that his meetings with Bissell and Tweedy were the only bases for his impression about Presidential authorization…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.33

Richard M. Bissell Jr. recruited David Tweedy documented document

“Tweedy testified that Bissell assigned him the task of working out the "operational details, such as assessing possible agents and the security of the operation…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.34

Richard M. Bissell Jr. recruited Joseph Scheider documented document

“Bissell asked Scheider generally about technical means of assassina tion or incapacitation that could be developed or procured by the CIA…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.34

Richard M. Bissell Jr. linked_to Woodrow Wilson reported document

“Scheider testified that Bissell told him that "he had direction from the highest authority * * * for getting into that kind of operation. Scheider stated that the reference to "highest authority by Bissell "signified to me that he meant the…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.35

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with Joseph Scheider reported document

“Scheider said that in the course of directing him to carry instructions to the Station Officer in the Congo Tweedy and his Deputy 'referred to the previous conversation I had with Bissell…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.36

Joseph Scheider met_with Richard M. Bissell Jr. reported document

“Scheider stated that he had an "independent recollection of telling the Station Officer about his meetings with Bissell Tweedy and Tweedy's Deputy including Bissell's reference to "the highest authority."…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.40

Richard M. Bissell Jr. linked_to Lumumba assassination alleged document

“it was 'quite possible that Richard Bissell was informed of this directive'…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.42

Brian Mulroney met_with Richard M. Bissell Jr. reported document

“Mulroney testified that after speaking with Scheider I then left his officeand I went back to Mr Bissell's officeand I told him in no way would I have any part in the assassination of Lumumba…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.52

McGeorge Bundy met_with Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“Bundy also testified to a conversation with Bissell during which the Executive Action capability was discussed…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.200

Richard M. Bissell Jr. linked_to Allen Dulles reported document

“Richard Bissell said he was 'quite certain that Allen Dulles had full knowledge of the Executive Action project…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.201

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with Brian Mulroney reported document

“He called me in and told me he wanted to go down to the Belgian Congo the former Belgian Congo and to eliminate Lumumba…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.52

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with Richard Helms documented document

“Bissell and Harvey briefed Richard Helms on Project ZR/RIFLE when he became DDP…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.201

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with John McCone reported document

“But Bissell did not recall briefing John McCone about the project when McCone took over as DCI…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.201

Richard M. Bissell Jr. recruited David Atlee Phillips documented document

“Both Bissell and Harvey recall a meeting in November 1961 in which Harvey was instructed to take over the contact with John Rosselli as part of Project ZR/RIFLE…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.202

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of 5412 Group documented document

“The plan presented by Bissell envisioned support to both Dominican exile groups and internal dissidents…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.210

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of 5412 Group documented document

“a meeting of the Special Group was held with Messrs McNamara Gilpatric Bowles Bundy Dulles Bissell and General Cabell ha attendance…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.216

Richard M. Bissell Jr. worked_for 5412 Group documented document

“Mr Dulles assisted by Mr Bissell then summarized for the benefit of the new members of the Special Group the specific actions taken by the predecessor group during the past year…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.217

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with Sheffield Edwards documented document

“The earliest concrete evidence of the operation is a conversation between DDP Bissell and Colonel Sheffield Edwards…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.88

Richard M. Bissell Jr. proposed CIA documented document

“The cable which was sent to Allen Dulles with Bissell's recommendation for its dispatch provided Since it appears that opposition group has committed itself to action... station authorized pass ref A items [the machine guns] to oppositionme…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.221

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with CIA documented document

“In fact the CIA officer along with Bissell had signed off on the proposed cable of May 2 releasing the machine guns for passage…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.222

Richard Helms met_with Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“Harvey stated that he had been told by Richard Bissell that the effort against Castro had been authorized "from the highest level, and that Harvey had discussed the plots with Richard Helms his immediate superior"…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.279

Frank Wisner worked_for Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“Bissell said that it was 'very probable that he discussed the assassination of Lumumba with Scheider who was then his science advisor…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.50

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with Frank Wisner reported document

“Bissell said that it was 'very probable that he discussed the assassination of Lumumba with Scheider who was then his science advisor…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.50

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with Joseph Scheider documented document

“Bissell discusses assassination capabilities with Scheider…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.305

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with Augustin Edwards documented document

“Bissell and Edwards have discussion concerning use of underworld figures to aid in assassination of Castro…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.305

Bronson Tweedy met_with Richard M. Bissell Jr. reported document

“Richard Bissell testified that he did not remember discussing the feasibility of assassinating Lumumba with Bronson Tweedy but it seemed 'entirely probable to him that such discussions took place…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.50

Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of Patrice Lumumba documented document

“Scheider is ordered by Bissell to make preparations for assassination of an African leader…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.305

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with Allen Dulles documented document

“Bissell and Edwards brief Dulles and Cabell about operation against Castro…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.305

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with Charles Cabell documented document

“Bissell and Edwards brief Dulles and Cabell about operation against Castro…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.305

Richard M. Bissell Jr. recruited Brian Mulroney documented document

“Bissell asks Mulroney to go to Congo…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.306

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with John F. Kennedy documented document

“Dulles and Bissell jointly brief President-elect Kennedy on details of planned invasion of Cuba…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.306

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with McGeorge Bundy documented document

“Bissell and Bundy have discussion concerning an "executive action capability…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.306

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with 5412 Group documented document

“Special Group meeting at which new members are briefed by Dulles and Bissell on "specific actions taken by the predecessor group during the past year…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.306

Richard M. Bissell Jr. supplied_arms_to Dominican Republic documented document

“Bissell approves shipping machine guns to Dominican Republic by pouch…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.306

Richard M. Bissell Jr. recruited David Atlee Phillips documented document

“Bissell asks Harvey to assumecontrol of underworld operation onstand-bybasis…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.307

Richard Helms succeeded Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“Richard Helms succeeds Richard Bissell as Deputy Director Plans CIA…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.307

Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of Fidel Castro documented document

“Richard Bissell clearly authorized the two attempts to assassinate Cuban leaders that occurred during his tenure as Deputy Director of Plans.…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.105

Richard M. Bissell Jr. worked_for CIA documented document

“During the Pre-Bay of Pigs phase Bissell and Edwards were the CIA officials admittedly knowledgeable of the plots…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.322

Richard M. Bissell Jr. reported Woodrow Wilson reported document

“Bissell I believe at some stage the President and the President-elect both were advised that such an operation had beenplanned and was being attempted…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.323

Richard M. Bissell Jr. appointed William Harvey documented document

“William Harvey was selected by Bissell to take over the project…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.324

Richard Helms succeeded Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“Helms was at that time DDP (taking over from Bissell in February 1962)…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.325

Richard M. Bissell Jr. worked_for Allen Dulles documented document

“Bissell testified that he and Edwards used the system to "circumlocutiously advise Dulles of the assassination plans…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.328

William Harvey worked_for Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“Harvey reporting directly to first Bissell and then Helms also exhibited in his testimony an ingrained reluctance to even discuss assassination in front of his superiors unless specifically asked about it…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.330

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed CIA documented document

“Soon after the first U 2 flight in 1955 Bissell moved quickly to organize the research and development of follow-on systems…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.65

Richard M. Bissell Jr. founded Ad-Hoc Requirements Committee documented document

“In 1955 to coordinate collection requirements for the U 2 program Bissell arranged for an informal Ad Hoc Requirements Committee (ARC)…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.65

Richard M. Bissell Jr. worked_for CIA documented document

“when he was first advised by Bissell that the White House was urging the CIA to set up an assassination capability…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.331

Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of Fidel Castro reported document

“Richard Bissell Deputy Director for Plans asked SheffieldEdwards Director of Security if Edwards couldestablish contact with the U.S gamblingsyndicate that was active in Cuba The objective clearly was the assassination of Castro…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.352

Richard M. Bissell Jr. worked_for CIA documented document

“Richard Bissell's insistence on maintaining close control over the U 2 program and Allen Dulles traditionalist definition of intelligence prevented the change…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.83

Richard M. Bissell Jr. worked_for John A. McCone documented document

“Memorandum from Bissell to Smith Oct 1 1954…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.361

Richard M. Bissell Jr. reported Allen Dulles reported document

“Bissell testified that he did not remember the incident and that he did not know whether Dulles had known about the cable…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.108

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with Allen Dulles reported document

“Bissell recalled that "in the latter part of September there was "a meeting in which Col Edwards and I briefed Mr Dulles and General Cabell about the plan to assassinate Castro…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.108

Richard M. Bissell Jr. founded Ad-Hoc Requirements Committee documented document

“In 1955 Richard Bissell a SpecialAssistant to the DCI set up an informal Ad-Hoc Requirements Committee (ARC) to coordinate collection requirements for the U.2 reconnaissanceprogram…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.92

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with Charles Cabell reported document

“Bissell recalled that "in the latter part of September there was "a meeting in which Col Edwards and I briefed Mr Dulles and General Cabell about the plan to assassinate Castro…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.108

Allen Dulles met_with Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“The evidence indicates that the meeting between Dulles Bissell Edwards and Cabell occurred sometime 'in the autumn of 1960 probably in late September'…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.113

Richard M. Bissell Jr. worked_for John McCone documented document

“Bissell was DDP under McCone for three months from November 1961 until February 1962…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.114

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with 5412 Group documented document

“Bissell testified that he met frequently with the Special Group in the fall of 1960 to discuss Cuban operations…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.124

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with McGeorge Bundy documented document

“He worked closely with McGeorge Bundy the White House liaison for Cuban affars and formerly one of Bissell's…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.132

Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of Raul Castro documented document

“Bissell confirmed that he requested Edwards to find someone to assassinate Castro…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.88

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with Dwight D. Eisenhower documented document

“I cannot recollect the giving of such briefing at the meeting with the President-elect in November or in any meeting with President Eisenhower…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.131

Tracy Barnes worked_for Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“Tracy Barnes Deputy to Richard Bissell…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.86

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed CIA documented document

“Tracy Barnes Deputy to Richard Bissell CIA's Deputy Director for Plans and the man in charge of…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.86

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with John F. Kennedy documented document

“I cannot recollect the giving of such briefing at the meeting with the President-elect in November…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.131

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of Taylor/Kennedy Board documented document

“Bissell was questioned extensively by the Taylor/Kennedy Board…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.135

Maxwell D. Taylor considered Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“General Taylor considered Bissell to have been the principal government official in the Bay of Pigs operation…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.135

Allen Dulles removed_from_power Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“He thought Bissell much more knowledgeable than Dulles who had deliberately removed himself from the planning and had delegated responsibility to Bissell…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.135

Sheffield Edwards reported Richard M. Bissell Jr. reported document

“An attachment to that memorandum quoted Sheffield Edwards as saying that Bissell in his 'recent briefings of Taylor and Kennedy 'told the Attorney General that some of the associated planning included the use of Giancana and the underworld …”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.136

Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of Patrice Lumumba alleged document

“Tweedy characterized his discussions with Bissell about assassinating Lumumba as "contingency planning (Tweedy 9/9/75 p 28)…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.48

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with Maxwell D. Taylor reported document

“Bissell in his 'recent briefings of Taylor and Kennedy 'told the Attorney General that some of the associated planning included the use of Giancana and the underworld against Castro.…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.136

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of CIA reported document

“Dillon thought it was "very likely that Richard Bissell attended the meeting…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.68

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with Robert F. Kennedy reported document

“Bissell in his 'recent briefings of Taylor and Kennedy 'told the Attorney General that some of the associated planning included the use of Giancana and the underworld against Castro.…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.136

Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of Fidel Castro documented document

“We were trying to use elements of the underworld against Castro and the Cuban leadership…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.137

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with Robert F. Kennedy documented document

“You're saying that in briefing the Attorney General you are telling him you are using the underworld against Castro…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.137

Richard M. Bissell Jr. supplied_arms_to Fidel Castro reported document

“The Support Chief stated that Bissell also authorized him to give the Cuban the requested electronics equipment…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.95

Richard M. Bissell Jr. appointed William Harvey documented document

“Harvey's notes reflect that Bissell asked him to take over the gambling syndicate operation from Edwards…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.97

Richard Helms succeeded Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“Richard Helms replaced Bissell as DDP in February 1962…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.97

Richard M. Bissell Jr. appointed Joseph Scheider documented document

“During the late spring or early summer of 1960 Richard Bissell had requested his Science Advisor Mr Joseph Scheider to review the general capability of the clandestine service in the field of incapacitation and elimination.…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.195

Bronson Tweedy met_with Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“Tweedy commented that rather than questioning the truth of the Station Officer's testimony the discrepancies between their testimony could be attributed to his own lack of recall.3 Even after he reviewed the cables on the PROP operation Twe…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.48

Richard M. Bissell Jr. covered_up Gambling Syndicate documented document

“Harvey testified that Edwards entry would cause the record to show incorrectly that the operation had been terminated when in fact it had not been…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.148

Richard Helms succeeded Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“Helms said that he inherited the Rosselli program from Bissell…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.149

Frederick Taylor met_with Richard M. Bissell Jr. reported document

“Taylor testified that 'never at any time did he raise the question of assassination with Parrott or with anybody else'…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.151

Richard M. Bissell Jr. funded Fidel Castro reported document

“The Support Chief recalled that Colonel J C King head of the Western Hemisphere Division gave him $50,000 in Bissell's office to pay the Cuban if he successfully assassinated Castro…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.95

Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with F. Lee Bailey documented document

“The Inspector General's Report described conversations among Bissell Edwards and the Chief of the Technical Services Division…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.93

J. Edgar Hoover met_with Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“However a memorandum by J Edgar Hoover states that the Attorney General said he had been told by Edwards in 1962 that the "CIA admitted that they had assisted Maheu in making the installation.…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.92

David Atlee Phillips worked_with Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document

“Harvey gave Rosselli the poison pills for use against Castro (and shortly thereafter was informed that the pills were inside Cuba) three months before the August 10 meeting…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.175

Richard M. Bissell Jr. carried_out_attack Harper's Ferry raid documented

“How this all got started in 1859 was John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. Right. Brown, you know, does this does this raid? You know, he's he's he fought, you know, slavery in Kansas. And then he goes off to Virginia and he fights it there …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Charlie Kirk Shooting and PRE 9_11 conversation @ 13:34

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of CIA documented

“21st, three days after Washington's decision. Yeah, I knew it wasn't in like June when it first started happening. In a fresh cable in August 26th, following Gray's exchange with the 5412, Director Dulles declared that Lumumba's removal had…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 41:16

Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of Fidel Castro documented

“Much more concrete was what occurred following Eisenhower's decision on August 18th. Deputy Director Richard Bissell called up Colonel Sheffield Edwards and asked him to drop by. Edwards, another of the ex-FBI folks at the agency, headed th…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 47:56

Richard M. Bissell Jr. briefed John Kenneth Galbraith documented

“The JFK's man in India was a Harvard economist by the name of John Kenneth Galbraith, G-A-L-B-R-A-I-T-H. Before leaving his post on March 27, 1961, Galbraith was briefed on the CIA operations in India by Richard Bissell, B-I-S-S-E-L-L. Ther…”

▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 34:47

Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of QJWIN documented

“responsibility for handling highly classified intercept communications provided to the CIA by the NSA. The unit also had its own in-house intercept capability. They had even more sensitive missions assigned to him by the Deputy Director of …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 22:25

Edwin Land discussed_with Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented

“Donovan's brief mentioned that Lockheed designed in May, he had not seen the concept drawing. Baker began designing a camera and a lens system that would fit on the Lockheed craft. At the end of August, Land discussed the CL-282 with Alan D…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 1:33:15

Richard M. Bissell Jr. recruited Sheffield Edwards documented

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 47:56

Richard M. Bissell Jr. succeeded Frank Wisner documented

“who was tried in December 1959 and sentenced to life in prison, would fly again for the CIA. The disaster did finally sap the strength of Frank Wisner. The chief went to London as the station chief to be replaced in Washington by Richard Bi…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 8 @ 1:00:18

Richard M. Bissell Jr. appointed Tracy Barnes documented

“Once Alan Dulles presented the basic plan, Bissell did most of the talking. Bissell, whose skills lay elsewhere, and who had appointed Tracy Barnes as his assistant precisely because of Barnes' ability to be a salesman, did well enough here…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 29:55

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of CIA documented

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 29:55

John F. Kennedy removed_from_power Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented

“a sign that he was in the midst of another agonizing grout attack. And then the old man collapsed on the chair and said, this is the worst day of my life. If Dulles thought he could escape Kennedy's wrath by making Bissell the scapegoat, he…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 27:24

John F. Kennedy removed_from_power Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented

“I'd say he's already got several in there. But if this was not enough of a slap in the face to the CIA, Kennedy forced the resignation of Alan Dulles, CIA Deputy Director Richard Bissell Jr., and CIA Deputy Director Charles Cabal. So Prouty…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 7 @ 36:34

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of CIA documented

“Richard Bissell, then the special assistant to Alan Dulles, recalls that the Indonesians had approached the agency at least two years before the operation, which is why most people think they were involved in it. These contacts came through…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 8 @ 26:40

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of CIA book_quoted

“Clearly does not apply to the evening in February of 1961. Bissell brought down the house at this basic get acquainted session, introducing himself by declaring, I'm your man eating shark. But even from this dinner, the secret warriors did …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 13:47

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed Operation Mongoose book_quoted

“At this point, Task Force Chief Esterling returned to Guatemala for one final visit to the camps. As a morale booster, he brought along rebel leader Jose Mera Cardona. The men flew black out of Miami, crewed by some of CIA's Polish pilots. …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 29:13

Allen Dulles appointed Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented

“He told a group of officers, quote, my job is to hold an umbrella over you fellows and catch the crap when you get on with your operating, unquote. When it became impossible for Wisner to continue in his director of operations role, Richard…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 34:32

Allen Dulles recruited Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented

“to the world to be just another well-to-do American couple enjoying the weekend in the Caribbean sun. But by that evening, as Dulles and his wife flew home, the Bay of Pigs operation was on the verge of collapse. The spymaster's long story …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 4:42

CIA recruited Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented

“There, Lansdale established a close friendship with Diem. Then, President Eisenhower sent a new U.S. envoy to Saigon in late 1954, General J. Lawton Collins. He received a briefing from Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, and Pierre Cabal, advis…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 39:42

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed CIA Directorate of Plans documented

“Quote, it is undesirable for a group of this type to have responsibility for evaluating its own work. Unquote. No shit, Sherlock. The CIA did act on this administrative question. Lyman Kirkpatrick and the new director of plans, Bissell, ins…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 9 @ 7:50

John F. Kennedy removed_from_power Richard M. Bissell Jr. host_asserted

“during the assassination, and Cabell's brother was fired by JFK. CIA Deputy Director of Plans Richard Bissell was forced to resign. CIA Director Alan Dulles fired. William Heffelfinger, a 45-year veteran official of the Treasury Department,…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner KILL ZONE Part 2 @ 38:42

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of Pentagon book_quoted

“Von Marbog, who officially worked at the Pentagon Assistant Comptroller at the time, was in fact making certain that the logistical pipeline for the secret war was running smoothly. Harry Adderhall was one of the CIA's most important assets…”

▶ Operation Gladio (241113) @ 39:52

Richard M. Bissell Jr. appointed Harry Adorhall book_quoted

▶ Operation Gladio (241113) @ 39:52

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed CIA Directorate of Plans book_quoted

“is undesirable for a group of this type to have responsibility for evaluating its own work, unquote. No shit, Sherlock. The CIA did act on this administrative question. Lyman Kirkpatrick and the new director of plans, Bissell, instituted a …”

▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 9:00

Richard M. Bissell Jr. recruited Cuba book_quoted

“that he had recruited for Operation Mongoose. Shackley's team was being ready for a new effort to overthrow the Chilean government. On September 12, 1973, half a year after Helms left, although, let's see, Allende's economy was collapsing. …”

▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5 @ 34:45

Richard M. Bissell Jr. carried_out_attack 1973 Chilean coup d'état book_quoted

“and overthrow the government. The State Department, the Department of Commerce, all of them went to war with Chile. They just never told the American people. Shackley's Western Division orchestrated with the DIA, the Defense Intelligence Ag…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5 @ 36:16

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of Operation Mongoose book_quoted

“and his first name is spelled E-R-I-C-H. With Von Marbad's endorsement, Shackley, fresh from Vietnam, was assigned to pick up the pieces of the coup plotting in the Directorate of Plans. Shackley worked in Operation Mongoose, made him the p…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5 @ 34:17

Richard M. Bissell Jr. stated CIA host_asserted

“And they began calling for open rebellion against the centralized government. The CIA had several avenues to reach the plotters. Richard Bissell, special assistant to Alan Dulles, said that some Indonesians had approached the agency at leas…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 53:42

Richard M. Bissell Jr. funded Brigade 2506 documented

“were driven back on all fronts. The Cuban pilots of the Air Force were also demoralized after losing two of their planes on the initial day. To shore them up, Bissell now authorized combat missions by the American contract crews, the other …”

▶ The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11 @ 55:39

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed Institute for Defense Analyses documented

“Richard Bissell was considered the leading candidate to succeed Dulles. Now he was asked to resign instead. When Bissell resisted, he was offered an inferior job. At the end of 1961, he left ahead the Institute of Defense Analysis. Tracy Ba…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 19:38

Richard M. Bissell Jr. funded Frank Wisner book_quoted

“by European countries in exchange for assistance they received because this money was used for Operation Gladio units. Concerned with the apparent rising security threat in Europe in the wake of the Korean War, they felt compelled to use th…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 5:56

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed Directorate of Operations book_quoted

“The advent of Richard Bissell's changed many things for the Directorate of Operations, but one stayed the same. The worries of the president's watchdogs again expressed within a few short months. Reporting at the end of October, they made v…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 0:41

Richard M. Bissell Jr. succeeded Frank Wisner documented

“The disaster did finally sap the strength of Frank Wisner. The chief went to London as the station chief to be replaced in Washington by Richard Bissell. Al Umer went to Paris as station chief. His place at the Far East Division was taken b…”

▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8 @ 1:00:18

Allen Dulles recruited Richard M. Bissell Jr. host_asserted

“with two personal assistants, one Tracy Barnes, two Richard Bissell Jr. Barnes had been in the OSF in Switzerland working for Dulles. He later worked for Gordon Gray on the psychological strategy board that we talked about a couple of chapt…”

▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 33:00

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of Ford Foundation host_asserted

“B-I-S-S-E-L-L, had been an economist by trade and came to the CIA from the Ford Foundation. Together, they coordinated the Washington Inn of the planning. Frank Wisner's task as deputy director of plans was to select who's going to be the f…”

▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 33:29

Richard M. Bissell Jr. exposed CIA documented

“and Alan Dulles fired him. In a 1966 interview with the New York Times, Richard Bistel conceded that the action went beyond the established limits of policy. We're just going to overthrow a government. We don't really want to sink ships. Li…”

▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 1:03:42

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of CFR host_asserted

“of the meeting in which Alan Dulles and Bissell, the guy that was running covert operations at the time, made a whole bunch of statements. And they're kind of wild in what they're talking about. And so for the first time ever, they had thei…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 7 @ 1:00:05

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of Operation PBSUCCESS documented

“Less than one year after the Iranian coup, the CIA director and his team had won a second opportunity to boast about their successful coup machine. PB's success would forge deep, lifelong bonds among Dulles and his Guatemala crew, which inc…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 43:10

Lindsay Group included Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented

“Their work relevant to whomever wins the election in 68, which happened to be Richard Nixon. Under the Harvard Center of International Affairs, which is Henry Kissinger's CIA proprietary, Lindsay's group included old war horses Richard Biss…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 53:55

Richard M. Bissell Jr. read James Critchfield documented

“But Alan Dulles and Richard Bissell read it before the landing at the Bay of Pigs, and it received other circulation inside the CIA. One of Critchfield's recommendations provided for a survey of the assets for unconventional warfare and par…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 38:58

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed National Security Council documented

“This led to a top secret summer study that combined the themes of deterring guerrilla warfare, limited war, counterinsurgency, and paramilitary operations. Rostow watched this exercise closely. Another spark plug, the study formal chairman …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 40:56

Robert Komer suggested_language_for Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented

“which is basically CIA sheep dipped into the Pentagon. Closely watched at the White House, Bissell's study became almost his swan song at the CIA. In contrast to pre-Cuba days, he now listened hard to what the White House had to say. From t…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 41:54

Richard M. Bissell Jr. proposed National Security Council documented

“Bissell suddenly spoke of regaining public confidence in the CIA's covert action by revealing the existence of the special group, much as Eisenhower had once revealed the Killian board. At another point, Bob Comer did a summary of Bissell's…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 42:53

Richard M. Bissell Jr. wrote National Security Council documented

“The countries are not threatened. The United States oligarchs are threatened. Bissell's last act would thus be to move Kennedy to reorganize his machinery for covert action. In fact, the special group talked over Bissell's report on Decembe…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 53:04

Allen Dulles recruited Richard M. Bissell Jr. book_quoted

“We go on. Dulles increasingly delegated Indonesia to Deputy Charles Cabell, C-A-B-E-L-L. And again, that's normal for him. In turn, General Cabell employed Richard Bissell as his point man. Bissell arranged a few U-2 flights to gather data.…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 2:30

Richard M. Bissell Jr. book_quoted The Secret Team host_asserted

“bed with the corporations. But go ahead. No, yeah, that wasn't really the point. So, you know, I read The Secret Team. It's been a while since I read The Secret Team. But I also remember when when Prouty was interviewed about that book and …”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 1:36:15

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed Brigade 2506 host_asserted

“eight C-46s and six C-54s. Richard Bissell expected to reinforce the brigade 2506 beachhead once the invasion began. About 500 Cubans gathered in the Miami area and 162 joined the brigade before it left Guatemala.…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 38:09

Richard M. Bissell Jr. briefed John F. Kennedy host_asserted

“The meeting took place outside near the swimming pool where a big table permitted him to lay out maps. Bissell described the plan for almost an hour, including the invasion, thus Eisenhower's authorship. Bissell recalls the plan as we outli…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 50:45

Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of Tracy Barnes book_quoted

“acquaintance with the ambassador, Barnes imparted minimal information. This would be an all Cuba affair, merely helped by the U.S., not a word about the airstrikes or any other details. Bissell had told Barnes to say as little as possible, …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 32:44

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed Operation Mongoose book_quoted

“They knew well enough the signs of an operation gone awry. Esterling's section chiefs assembled on April 9th, right after his return from Guantanamo visit, and just before Hawkins went to Porto Cabanza for the brigade embarkment. Richard Bi…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 36:10

Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of Cuba book_quoted

“This is just crazy. Similarly, Richard Barnes brought in Air Force General Leo Geary for a last-minute assessment. Geary concluded that the air plan would be adequate only if implemented in all aspects. Bissell made choices that precluded t…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 42:06

Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of Cuba book_quoted

“And that's the first day of bombing, which is why JFK called off the second round of bombing because the cat was already out of the bag. Okay, when Kennedy continued insisting on reduced visibility, Richard Bissell on his own halved the ini…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 43:30

Richard M. Bissell Jr. spied_on Charles Cabell book_quoted

“With the strikes, he believed the operation was risky, but still he thought it was feasible. Now the president wanted to reject a measure Cabell considered vital. Yet he declined Russ' offer to speak directly to the president to make his ow…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 53:41

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed Directorate of Operations documented

“Taylor panel, but went far beyond it in terms of criticizing the Secret Warriors' assumptions about Castro's vulnerability, arrangements for equipment and training, and changes in the planning, the operational security, and the management o…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 8:29

Richard M. Bissell Jr. removed_from_power Directorate of Operations documented

“doing science and technology that the agency was about to create. Bissell declined. He left instead to head a think tank. Of course, that's what all CIA guys do. The Institute of Defense Analysis in Alexandria, Virginia. There was no farewe…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 23:09

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed Institute for Defense Analyses documented

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 23:09

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed Operation Pluto documented

“While every single element had to go right for it to have even had a remote chance of success. The CIA's project had been marginal at best from the beginning. Dwight Eisenhower and the agency share the blame for that. Richard Bissell had be…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 21:42

Richard M. Bissell Jr. criticized Jean Kirkpatrick documented

“animosity for Bissell after having been passed over for the job himself. His report was then characterized as a hatchet job. Even college friend Tom Parrott took that view. Richard Bissell raised the issue himself in a 1987 interview, or 67…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 8:58

Richard M. Bissell Jr. criticized Jean Kirkpatrick documented

“largely the work of Tracy Barnes, and practically as long as the IG report itself, that paper went to the director on January 18, 1962. Denunciations of the report was also filed separately by Alan Dulles, by Richard Bissell, and by Charles…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 11:55

Richard M. Bissell Jr. criticized Jean Kirkpatrick documented

“and by three Cuba task force officers. All these circulated with Kirkpatrick's report. Then Director McCone had the copies collected. McCone had all saved, one destroyed. Years later, in his memoirs, Richard Bissell reconsidered his view of…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 12:25

Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of Patrice Lumumba documented

“told congressional investigators that Richard Bissell asked him to go to kill Lumumba. O'Donnell rejected the mission for the same reason as Devlin. He also suggested that such a conspiracy hatched in Washington would be a federal felony. O…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 48:47

Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of William Harvey book_quoted

“Thought he was paranoid. A pedestrian drunk and womanizer. In early 1960, Richard Bissell ordered Harvey to create an ultra-secret unit for executive action, i.e. assassination. It was to be called ZR Rifle. It had only one field agent, the…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 33:00

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of CIA book_quoted

▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8 @ 26:33

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of CIA book_quoted

“here as we transition that I think is important to read to kind of set the story for the next part of the book. The first one is from Richard Bissell, who was the Deputy Director of Plans, which is basically the covert operations area of th…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 0:31

Richard M. Bissell Jr. removed_from_power CIA book_quoted

“absolutely had to sit down with him and talk. They appeared on Bissell's doorstep in his house. Esterling took the cutbacks in Project ATE to their logical conclusion. There remained no good faith estimates for success. No good faith estima…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 44:33

Stansfield Turner reassigned Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented

“Turner reassigned both men to what he believed was meaningless jobs. Shackley's colleagues in the DO, the demotion was basically a body blow to a small, very close-knit group of covert operators. Although he could have retired, Shackley rem…”

▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 5:26

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed CIA book_quoted

“Richard Bissell Jr., a Groton, Yale-educated chief of clandestine operations for the CIA. Bissell, a popular member of the Georgetown set, had managed to survive the political fallout of the U2 disaster, even though he was in charge of it. …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 13:54

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed CIA host_asserted

“Alan Pope and William Beale to fly the remaining B-26s. Filipino Antonio Didal and Rex Reyes flew P-51s. More than a dozen raids followed when the airmen seemed close to exhaustion. Richard Bissell actually reached down into his U-2 spy pla…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 44:19

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of CIA documented

“Eisenhower accepted the CIA's Cuba project. Not before some discussion, however. Once Allen Dulles presented the basic plan, Bissell did most of the talking. Bissell, whose skills lay elsewhere, and who had appointed Tracy Barnes as his ass…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 25:40

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of CFR book_quoted

“Elliot Bell at McGraw Hill. He is also the publisher and editor of Businessweek. John Brown, the editor of the Sunday Review of Literature, because they have to have a tag team. Cass Canfield, chairman of the editorial board at Harper and B…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 6 II @ 12:39

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed Sunday Review of Literature book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 6 II @ 12:39

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of CIA book_quoted

“In February of 49, the British bowed out. The Wisner Group then furnished all the money for when? More than a million dollars over three years, going directly to the Russians. In 51, Lindsay recruited John Bross, another of the former lawye…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6) @ 29:50

Richard M. Bissell Jr. carried_out_attack Bay of Pigs Invasion host_asserted

“And he also helped plan both the Bay of Pigs and the U2 spy plane. Correct. How do we get two of the planners of the Bay of Pigs come from the same private high school? Well, that's because they're doing all of this together for their famil…”

▶ The Shadow State 36 Secret Societies 20; The Groton School @ 35:46

Richard M. Bissell Jr. relationship_with Allen Dulles host_asserted

“who was good buddies with Alan Dulles. Everybody hears about him all the time, but nobody too much hears about Richard Griswold Jr. We've definitely talked about him. We have, yes. Yes, you have. You know, you don't see that anywhere else. …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner and Martha Sheshan @ 21:29

Richard M. Bissell Jr. relationship_with Lyman Lemnitzer documented

“to lose faith in the American government. But it was meant to stir up a public outcry and a subsequent demand for direct military intervention. So on public record is a meeting with CIA Deputy Director of Plans Richard Bissell and Lyman Lem…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 7 @ 37:32

Richard M. Bissell Jr. briefed John F. Kennedy documented

“Dulles took JFK into the back garden for a private conversation, we believe that it was to secure his approval to continue with it. Although the substance of that is unknown, shortly after E. Howard Hunt learned from Tracy Barnes that JFK h…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 @ 16:34

Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of Fidel Castro documented

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 52:04

Richard M. Bissell Jr. initiated_plot_against Fidel Castro documented

“Not much had been done. Bissell made that talk into something real. Only days before Eisenhower approved the original JMATE program, Tracy Barnes had been in a dinner with Senator JFK at his home. John Bross, B-R-O-S-S, now Bissell's top pl…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 49:02

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of CIA book_quoted

“The president met at midnight with his highest military and civilian advisors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the CIA. At the meeting, Richard Bissell maintained that the operation could still be saved if the president would authorize Navy j…”

▶ Book Review The Invisible Government Chapter 4 @ 38:24

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of CIA documented

“So at this point, Richard Bissell was called in and he and Cabell appealed directly to Rusk, who rejected their arguments. Both the CIA officials, all of them actually, protested vigorously and now basically tell lies to American people, as…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 @ 43:51

Richard M. Bissell Jr. removed_from_power CIA documented

“Kennedy kept the agency at arm's length. He told aides of his desire to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the wind. But the actual agency shakeup was much less extreme. Richard Bissell was considered the leading cand…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont @ 18:15

Richard M. Bissell Jr. involved_in Iran host_asserted

“And very instrumental with the nuclear weapons and the new propulsion systems, the whole thing. He was a brilliant man, no doubt, but he was as evil as they come. Yes, yeah. He took over from Frank Wisner and was involved in the assassinati…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner and Martha Sheshan @ 26:27

Richard M. Bissell Jr. involved_in Guatemala host_asserted

▶ The Colonel's Corner and Martha Sheshan @ 26:27

Dean Rusk held_out_phone_to Richard M. Bissell Jr. book_quoted

“I don't think there's any point, the general said. Russ held out the phone to Bissell. I think I agree with that. So neither one of them had the balls to talk to Kennedy. Only later, in retrospect, did he ask himself if one says no when ask…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 @ 58:26

Lyman Lemnitzer supported Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented

“And they would get no closer to paramilitary operations than an airstrip in Guatemala, unquote. General Lyman Lemitsker, the chairman, saw no difficulty in any of this. He was right on board. Because what are we doing? We're training Americ…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 42:18

Allen Dulles recruited Richard M. Bissell Jr. host_asserted

“Bottles my mind, too, that then now they have their own charter. They don't have the funding, though. So, of course, we still have to go sell drugs. President Truman authorized Dulles to supervise the organization. And then immediately Dull…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 2:13:40

Allen Dulles deferred_decision_on Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented

“Hot debate over the use of Americans as part of a force ended with Allen Dulles, who said the decision could be put aside and reexamined later, meaning we're going to do whatever we want. Gordon Gray added that an abortive project would be …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 43:15

Allen Dulles appointed Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented

“When you get on with your operating, unquote. When it became impossible for Wisner to continue in his director of operations role, Richard Helms, who had already twice acted in that position, had the strongest claim to the job. But Dulles s…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 38:59

Jacob Esterlin knew_of Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented

“whose gambling profits from Havana casinos had disappeared as Castro prohibited the practice. So we've got a motivated player here. Edwards undertook the task. This track of the Cuba operation remained entirely separate from the exile proje…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 52:34

Esterling telephoned Richard M. Bissell Jr. book_quoted

“to be hit by eight bombers. This reduction in the planned air mission was a major reason for doubts among Esterling's staff. The mission proved successful as far as it went. The exiled planes achieved surprise. Shortly after dawn on April 1…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 @ 48:27

Thomas S. Gates objected_to Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented

“But he's talking about we want hands-on training, not in a schoolhouse like School of America's. We want them in the field like in Guatemala. Secretary of Defense Thomas Gates was not happy. He shot back that the training did not concern hi…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 41:18

John Kenneth Galbraith discussed Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented

“Before leaving for his post on March 27, 1961, Galbraith discussed CIA operations in India with Richard Bissell. There was an element of irony in this meeting. They were both economists, one perhaps the foremost Keynesian, the other a man w…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 @ 10:08

Philip Strong talked_to Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented

“than any other design because of its maximum altitude its smaller radar cross section might make it invisible to soviet radars the three officials asked strong if the cia would be interested in the aircraft strong promised to talk to the di…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 59:02

Sheffield Edwards briefed Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented

“He then goes on to say the idea didn't originate with me. And that may be true. It may have originated with Ian Fleming. Who knows? It doesn't matter. You're the one that carried it out. It has been established that Colonel Edwards personal…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 55:13

Arleigh Burke relationship_with Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 7 @ 37:32

Richard M. Bissell Jr. worked_for Averell Harriman host_asserted

“went to work for Averill Harriman to work on the Marshall Plan. He worked in the State Department in the Office of Policy Coordination. If you guys remember, that was Frank Wisner's area that was chopped out of the State Department and basi…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner and Martha Sheshan @ 24:12

Richard M. Bissell Jr. proposed U-2 program host_asserted

▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #35 @ 35:28

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed Marshall Plan documented

“In April of 1948, President Truman signed the Marshall Plan, granting $5 billion in aid in $48. $5 billion to 16 European countries. Directing the Marshall Plan was Richard Bissell, a Yale graduate logistics expert, who would later rise to …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 6 - 7 @ 9:22

Richard M. Bissell Jr. studied_at London host_asserted

“Um, but Bissell stood out to me because he was one of the ones that was sent over to London in order to go to the school of economics over there, which, you know, goes into the whole Cambridge, the Cecil Rose, all of those people. So, you k…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner and Martha Sheshan @ 23:43

Richard M. Bissell Jr. attempted_assassination_of Charles de Gaulle book_quoted

“The Cuban exile program that we talked about was ran by the CIA by a guy by the name of Richard Bissell. He was deputy director of plans for the CIA. He also, he's the guy that was behind the attempts on behalf of the CIA to assassinate Cha…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 7 @ 19:22

Richard M. Bissell Jr. worked_for Ford Foundation documented

“at the Combined Shipping Adjustment Board. After the war, he had served as a deputy director of the Marshall Plan from 48 until 51. And the Marshall Plan had the covert element of funding Operation Gladio. So Bissell is well read in on all …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 59:59

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of Ford Foundation host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 32:59

Richard M. Bissell Jr. studied_responses_against Eastern Soviet Union documented

“His first association with the agency, not including all of that, which was all agency already, was 53. And I love how the CIA tries to tell us that his first affiliation was in 53, even though he had done all of this other stuff from 1948,…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 1:00:23

Richard M. Bissell Jr. appointed Whiting Willauer host_asserted

“So Bissell chose Tracy Barnes as his representative and Whiting Willauer, who we've come across before. I'm not at all sure he's not CIA, just pretending to be state. Both of which were involved in Operation Success in maintaining the Hondu…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 10 @ 1:15:09

Richard M. Bissell Jr. spoke_to Dean Rusk book_quoted

“received it just a half an hour before the strike aircraft were to launch. Some pilots were already in their cockpits. General Cabell is proud that no one suggested a bit of foot dragging to let the strike go through. By 4 a.m., he and Biss…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 @ 59:53

Richard M. Bissell Jr. demanded_reconsideration_from Dean Rusk book_quoted

“He thought the go-ahead included all subsidiary measures such as airstrikes. At this point, Richard Bissell entered. The DDO demanded reconsideration. He and Cabell rushed to Russ' office, appealing to him. General Cabell knew air like a co…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 @ 56:29

Richard M. Bissell Jr. operated_in Happy Valley host_asserted

“Bissell, of course, did not have the opportunity of ordering the Navy jets into the air, but he did have the task of notifying the Exile Air Force at Happy Valley. From his secret office, he relayed the news to the United States air cover w…”

▶ Book Review The Invisible Government Chapter 4 @ 44:13

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted

▶ The Colonel's Corner and Martha Sheshan @ 24:12

Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered Tracy Barnes book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 @ 37:06

Richard M. Bissell Jr. appointed Tracy Barnes host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 10 @ 1:15:09

Richard M. Bissell Jr. agreed_with Charles Cabell book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 @ 58:26

Richard M. Bissell Jr. directed Operation Mongoose documented

“assets for covert warfare. This instruction led to the interagency study directed by Richard Bissell with Walt Rostow, R-O-S-T-O-W, of the NSC as the prime moving force behind it. The study provided the impetus for the administration's emph…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont @ 14:31

Richard M. Bissell Jr. briefed John Kenneth Galbraith host_asserted

“Before leaving his post on March 27, 1961, Galbraith was briefed on the CIA operations in India by Richard Bissell, B-I-S-S-E-L-L. There was an element of irony to this meeting of two economists, one perhaps foremost in American Keynesian e…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 9 cont @ 29:52

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed U-2 incident book_quoted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 7 @ 19:22

Richard M. Bissell Jr. called Esterling book_quoted

“they knew well enough the signs of an operation gone awry esterling section chiefs assembled on april 9th right after his return from guantanamo visit and just before hawkins went to uh porto cabanza for the brigade embarkment richard bisse…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 @ 40:31

Richard M. Bissell Jr. shamed Esterling book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 @ 48:54

Richard M. Bissell Jr. shamed Jack Hawkins book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 @ 48:54

Richard M. Bissell Jr. claimed_no_memory_of Sheffield Edwards documented

“who died in 94 is exceedingly sparse on the murder plots in his memoirs but claims he first learned of the mafia approaching completely independent of the cia from edwards sure the guy that's in charge heard it from a guy that's not in char…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 53:35

Richard M. Bissell Jr. proposed Bay of Pigs Invasion host_asserted

▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #35 @ 35:28

Richard M. Bissell Jr. halved Bay of Pigs Invasion book_quoted

“And that's the first day of bombing, which is why JFK called off the second round of bombing because the cat was already out of the bag. Okay. When Kennedy continued insisting on reduced visibility, Richard Bissell on his own halved the ini…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 @ 47:52

Richard M. Bissell Jr. deflected_objection_from Thomas S. Gates documented

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 41:18

Richard M. Bissell Jr. managed Combined Shipping Adjustment Board documented

“He's a graduate of Groton, Yale. Bissell studied in the London School of Economics. You know, he is the prototype of the international syndicate CIA guy. He taught economics first at Yale and then in 42 at MIT, where he became a full profes…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 59:31

Richard M. Bissell Jr. served_as Marshall Plan documented

▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 59:59

Richard M. Bissell Jr. appointed Douglas Ashford documented

“that he had become involved in it, Bissell's interest was piqued, and he set out to learn what he could about the reconnaissance system. In early September 54, Bissell had, you see how they love to make the CIA people seem like they're dumb…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 1:34:14

Richard M. Bissell Jr. funded Brigade 2506 documented

“Everybody that was involved in that. Brigade 2506 had no real chance. On the second day, Pepe Sen Roman's troops were driven back on all fronts. The Cuban pilots of the Air Force were also demoralized after losing two of their planes on the…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 @ 52:34

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of CIA host_asserted

“Kennedy insisted that he had said no armed forces would be used in Cuba, and he was not going to change his mind. Bissell, who had been so deeply engaged in the setup of this whole thing, argued desperately in favor of U.S. air. So did Admi…”

▶ Book Review The Invisible Government Chapter 4 @ 38:53

Richard M. Bissell Jr. worked_for CIA documented

“of intelligence collections now keep in mind they they created this impression by sending hundreds of people into the eastern bloc and them all getting killed they're not going to tell you that in this that is absolutely true bissell joined…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 1:01:20

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of CIA documented

“nefarious stuff. Dick Bissell, who was at the time the chief of operations, along with Richard Helms, cleared the concept with Indian intelligence. So they go to an Interpol meeting and they're basically discussing international criminality…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 @ 3:42

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of CIA documented

“to the deputy director of CIA, Lieutenant General James Cabell. This guy is the one that ends up being the, he's been in the CIA for a while. In covering the memorandum, Bissell called Cabell's attention to the section that said stripped or…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 1:34:44

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of CIA documented

“Another DI unit was the Office of National Estimates, which produced the community's flagship reports, the National Intelligence Estimates. Without bringing it into the circle of knowledge on the plan, Dulles and Bissell asked O.N.E. to ass…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 @ 9:35

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of CIA host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 32:59

John F. Kennedy removed_from_power Richard M. Bissell Jr. host_asserted

“had to drop him off. And Dulles was overheard saying he'd just take a taxi home. But of course, one of his buddies that was there decided they'd take him home. Retired at home in Georgetown, the old spymasters' mood did not lift as Kennedy …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 21:50

Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of Cuba book_quoted

“Told the cargo represented a small proportion of the capacity, Cabell ordered the load topped off with rice and beans. Dick Drain, startled, warned Cabell that the plane's task was to deliver the specific items requested. Propaganda chief D…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 37:18

Richard M. Bissell Jr. supplied_arms_to Fulgencio Batista book_quoted

“Bissell cabled Egan on his own authority, permitting the use of CIA pilots, but not any of the Cuban exiles, supposedly, and recalls no evidence the troops were ever used. But President Eisenhower was later briefed that the Cubans deployed …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 46:55

Richard M. Bissell Jr. carried_out_attack Harper's Ferry raid host_asserted

“Illini, go ahead. To respond to Megan Nukes, I can give one example from history, which was John Brown. He runs this raid on Harper's Ferry. The Southerners call him a terrorist. They have a point. They arrest him. They catch him. They put …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 1:44:14

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed Task Force 157 book_quoted

“The list of underachievers could have started with Tracy Barnes, except that given his post as associate director of the DO, Barnes was exempt from this reigning structure. Nevertheless, this criticism of the Cuba affair may be overblown. J…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 34:01

Richard M. Bissell Jr. recruited Roberto Alejos book_quoted

“and of whom Roberto Alejos owned a mountain plantation he called Helvita, a large secluded ranch. Esterling had his successor, Robert Davis, approach him to basically offer to pay him to use his ranch as a training camp. The task force chie…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 19:30

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed Operation Mongoose book_quoted

“Richard Bissell supplied details. Tracy Barnes, Bissell's assistant, supervised. Richard Helms sat quietly, which was rather out of character for him. Soon Helms stopped coming to project meetings altogether. Beyond his help in drafting the…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 21:33

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of CIA host_asserted

“So Bissell went to work for Averill Harriman to work on the Marshall Plan. Yes. He worked in the State Department in the Office of Policy Coordination.…”

▶ @Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government @ 24:17

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed U-2 program guest_asserted

“The guy that chose the place and oversaw the U-2 aircraft was, he held the purse strings for OSS. He was Richard Bissell Jr., who was good buddies with Alan Dulles.…”

▶ @Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government @ 21:35

Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of Bay of Pigs Invasion host_asserted

“in the nearby area. The word had been flashed to Happy Valley by Richard Bissell, CIA, after the president authorized unmarked Navy jets to fly for the one hour at dawn. But remember, that got screwed up because of time zone, because they'r…”

▶ Book Review The Invisible Government Chapter 5 @ 30:28

Richard M. Bissell Jr. succeeded Frank Wisner host_asserted

“He took over from Frank Wisner and was involved in the assassination of, well, in the overthrow of Iran and Guatemala and all of those.…”

▶ @Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government @ 26:47

Richard M. Bissell Jr. disliked Jimmy Carter host_asserted

“as if it was an open goodwill gesture. Rumors that Paisley had defected to the Soviet Union and the fact that the Office of Security had been looking at Paisley's loyalty before he disappeared came back to haunt Turner. He looked foolish in…”

▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 32:17

Richard M. Bissell Jr. disliked Stansfield Turner host_asserted

▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 32:17

Richard M. Bissell Jr. established Edwin Wilson host_asserted

“By now, Shackley was well on his way to establishing a private intelligence network that I refer to as the Enterprise. Shackley's move against Wilson's operation was to take over from Wilson the most successful business front operation the …”

▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 11:47

Richard M. Bissell Jr. worked_with Frank Carlucci host_asserted

“point of contact. And according to Shirley Brill, the girlfriend of Klein, you have Carlucci and Shackley being very, very good friends. Shackley and Klein and Carlucci all worked together on the Chilean operation to overthrow Allende, whic…”

▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 4:27

Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of Fidel Castro book_quoted

“He could foresee that there would occur a time beyond which covert intervention would no longer be feasible. The group also mulled over assassinating Castro, though for security or because he did not know or for other reasons, General Cabel…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 53:26

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted

“between James Angleton serving as the Rome station chief. I think Dulles, you mentioned that Dulles was involved there too. I think you've also, you definitely got Karamasins, who was there in 63 for Piano Solo, and later got involved with …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 1:02:20

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@Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government

▶ 21:35 The guy that chose the place and oversaw the U-2 aircraft was, he held the purse strings for OSS. He was Richard Bissell Jr., who was good buddies with Alan Dulles. Everybody hears about him all the time, but nobody too much hears about Ric…

@Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government

▶ 22:03 But, you know, you don't see that anywhere else. No. He went under the radar big time. And I got to tell you, this is so funny, because on the Dreamland Resort website, they have quotes of different things. That's a wonderful website, by th…

@Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government

▶ 23:26 is that for those of you who follow the Operation Gladio side of all of this, is that Bissell was one of those guys, when I was talking to Warhamster about the secret societies, what you find is a lot of these people end up at that one groo…

@Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government

▶ 23:54 There were several in his class that end up going on to be not just in the OSS, but in the CIA as career. But Bissell stood out to me because he was one of the ones that was sent over to London in order to go to the School of Economics over…

@Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government

▶ 24:17 Stephen Rhodes, all of those people. So you know that he was being groomed. And the guy we just talked about this past, like yesterday, last week, Averill Harriman. So Bissell went to work for Averill Harriman to work on the Marshall Plan. …

@Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government

▶ 24:46 That was Frank Wisner's area that was chopped out of the State Department and basically inserted into the CIA when it stood up. So this guy is the guy, I mean, like he's at the heart of this Operation Gladio Evil Empire kind of thing. And s…

@Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government

▶ 26:25 so they could gain ground and fool people and get money over here and over there. Richard Bissell also ran assassination teams. And so when they went into, in the Gladio operation down there into Latin America and that, that guy was very in…

@Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government

▶ 26:47 And very instrumental with the nuclear weapons and the new propulsion systems, the whole thing. He was a brilliant man, no doubt, but he was as evil as they come. Yes. He took over from Frank Wisner and was involved in the assassination of,…

@Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government

▶ 27:16 Yes. Right on. Yes. And his father was also in the insurance company in Hartford. They were from Connecticut, supposedly. And he had the goods on who had fire insurance and who did not, which came in very handy when our mill was bombed. Bec…

Operation Gladio (241113)

▶ 39:22 airline in history, Air America. James Cunningham used Wilson through his front companies to make sure that Air America got what it needed for its friends. Wilson had nothing but admiration for Shackley and Cunningham. Wilson worked with th…

Operation Gladio (241113)

▶ 39:52 Von Marbog, who officially worked at the Pentagon Assistant Comptroller at the time, was in fact making certain that the logistical pipeline for the secret war was running smoothly. Harry Adderhall was one of the CIA's most important assets…

Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5

▶ 34:17 and his first name is spelled E-R-I-C-H. With Von Marbad's endorsement, Shackley, fresh from Vietnam, was assigned to pick up the pieces of the coup plotting in the Directorate of Plans. Shackley worked in Operation Mongoose, made him the p…

Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5

▶ 34:45 that he had recruited for Operation Mongoose. Shackley's team was being ready for a new effort to overthrow the Chilean government. On September 12, 1973, half a year after Helms left, although, let's see, Allende's economy was collapsing. …

Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5

▶ 36:16 and overthrow the government. The State Department, the Department of Commerce, all of them went to war with Chile. They just never told the American people. Shackley's Western Division orchestrated with the DIA, the Defense Intelligence Ag…

Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5

▶ 37:14 the author says, shot himself, but he did not. He was murdered. What came next in a military dictatorship that engaged in every form of torture, the CIA helped train Pinochet's secret police, the dreaded DINA, D-I-N-A, and suggested that DI…

Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5

▶ 37:45 In 1973, Shackley was made head of the CIA's East Asia Division, where, working with the Pentagon, he oversaw America's defeat in Vietnam. Eric Van Marbog, by that time, was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. He was sent to Saigon with …

Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5

▶ 39:36 Von Marbog was in charge of getting as much military hardware out of the country as possible. And you know what? They only give them a couple of days because their real intent is to leave that shit there and then sell it on the covert, just…

Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5

▶ 40:37 At Binh Ho, he risked his own life to get equipment evacuated from the base while it was being attacked. Like Shackley, Von Marbog made his reputation despite the failure of American policy in Vietnam. Now, let me read this last thing and I…

Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5

▶ 41:04 As they return to Washington, D.C. in new and more important positions, the bonds that they had forged over these years would be a profound effect on the future of U.S. foreign policy. And that is, in fact, true. But, again, you have to tak…