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Claims (87)
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. recruited
Sheffield Edwards 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
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. 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. 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. 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
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
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
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. 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
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
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. 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. 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
“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. 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. headed
Institute for Defense Analyses 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
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
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. member_of
CIA book_quoted
“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…”
▶ 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
“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. 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
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
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. member_of
Operation PBHistory 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
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. 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. disliked
Stansfield Turner 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. 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
Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“that they had spent millions and millions of dollars setting up that Brigade 2506, which is where we found Felix Rodriguez, where he was proudly wearing his Brigade 2506 shirt when Tucker Carlson interviewed him. It mentions that the same p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 39:05
Groton School trained
Richard M. Bissell Jr. host_asserted
“what you find is a lot of these people end up at that one grooming school, is what I call it, called Groton, G-R-O-T-O-N. And if you go back and you look at Bissell, not only was he from that,…”
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Richard M. Bissell Jr. worked_with
William Colby 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…”
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Richard M. Bissell Jr. founded
Area 51 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.…”
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London School of Economics trained
Richard M. Bissell Jr. host_asserted
“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.…”
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Office of Strategic Services guest_asserted
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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. …
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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. …
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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They try to manipulate, they being Shackley and Klein, who's going to serve as Stanfield Turner's deputy. And they first push off a guy by the name of Admiral Daniel Murphy, who we've come across in the past. And Turner knows too much about…
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He ends up firing the current deputy, Hank Nolte, and he wants to fire Shackley and Klein, but he's kind of waved off on doing that and takes all of his venom out on Nolke, which you spell his name K-N-O-C-H-E. Then Wisenberger and Loomis g…
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That's where some of the arms got caught up in customs in the Iran-Contra affair. So, and by the way, it was for the very long time a fascist organization because the Genter Press, part of Operation Gladio, was staged out of Portugal. So, w…
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deputy thanks to the manipulation of Shackley and Bush. And as it turns out, Carlucci is very close friends with Donald Rumsfeld. And it was Donald Rumsfeld who worked with President Ford to get Bush appointed to the directorship of the CIA…
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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…
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He's the one that facilitated all the funds going to the Chilean operation to murder Allende. So by the summer of 1977, when Carlucci could be installed, Turner declared open war against the Directorate of Operations. He decided that both S…
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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…
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Shackley did not leave the CIA for almost two more years, and what happened inside the CIA while he was still there was nothing short of remarkable. When Turner began to dig deeper, he learned that an internal CIA study had recommended 1,35…
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With the firings, the agency had a full-scale mutiny on its hands. Jimmy Carter had taken on a force he didn't understand. Turner's act fell on veterans of some of the most legendary operations. It seemed that Turner was deliberately destro…
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and wasn't really there to do any job that had anything to do with nuclear. Shackley now had a man at the top of American nuclear security. By the time of the Halloween massacre, Turner had issued a former letter of reprimand to Tom Clines.…
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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 …
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to Wilson's townhouse, to parking lots. After a few months, Wilson decided that he could trust Barnes and made her his office manager. By 1978, she was his mistress as well. As Wilson's girlfriend, Barnes found herself socializing with Clim…
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aircraft that Wilson had bought for his youth. Secord's code name, assigned by Kline, was the Little General. Like Shirley Brill, Barnes witnessed Wilson preparing intelligence reports for Shackley and Kline on activities in Libya, and she …
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Although Clines had put in for his retirement and Shackley was no longer in the Directorate of Operations, they continued to task Wilson as if everything was still normal. They also sent taskings to Slatter and Quintero for information abou…
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Soviet weapons that were inside of Libya. Barnes would later testify that she flew with Schachter to Geneva and waited with him when Swiss customs delayed him to examine the shopping list for Soviet weapons. She then saw him give Wilson the…
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had been given a different job. The secret documents from which Shirley Brill had seen Klein and Quintero removing the markings of were not just CIA, but they were also from Mossad and Saudi. Klein's meeting with Secord and the CIA official…
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to collect intelligence were multiplying. Wilson had offices in London, Geneva, as well as his townhouse in Washington, while he himself was in Libya making contact. Now, what's interesting, as I went through this book, these companies that…
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Thanks to Klein, Wilson had a high-level contact in the Defense Intelligence Agency named Waldo Duberstein. I can't spell this one. D-U-B-B-E-R-S-T-E-I-N. Duberstein supplied Wilson information to feed to the Libyans on their Egyptian enemi…
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countries like Libya. Huh. Wilson said, quote, Shackley had asked me to find out where the equipment from Vietnam was going because they were selling the small arms through Singapore. He wanted to stop it. Yeah, I doubt that. He wanted thos…
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He would grab it as soon as it came out of the country. The only way I could find out was to put out a contract to purchase 5,000 M16s. It was a very small number, but enough to get bids all over the world. I got bids from England, the Phil…
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I talked to Shackley about it and he seemed confident the information was good and was glad to receive it, unquote. Shackley's new job as liaison to friendly intelligence services included the collection of information on terrorists and ter…
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He actually did bring the terrorists that killed the Munich athletes into Libya and then out again. He was paid $5 million for that job. By late 1977, Wilson had obtained a one-year renewable contract to train Libyan soldiers at Benghazi in…
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but Shackley's big interest was in their Soviet weapons. He tasked Wilson to find out about Soviet surface-to-air missiles and the later Soviet artillery and tanks that Gaddafi had acquired. Clines worked with Wilson and Secord to try to ge…
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By having Lloyd-Jones and the other people, we found out that the SAM sites, where the SAM sites were, surface-to-air missiles, and what they were doing in Chad, I was able to report to Clines and Shackley on a real-time basis. At the very …
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So the CIA was creating another terrorist state? Within the few weeks George Weiss's arrival at the Department of Energy, Ed Wilson got a request from Klein's for information about Libyan's nuclear program. Wilson soon had something to repo…
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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 …
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During the Senate hearings into the CIA assassination plots against Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders, quote, plausible deniability was defined by the CIA deputy director of operations, Richard Bissell, as the use of euphemisms in disc…
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Gates had received his reward for his role in helping the Reagan-Bush campaign while working in the Carter White House. John Brose, who we met last time, B-R-O-S-S, had recommended Gates as a personal deputy to Casey. He was obviously a pup…
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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 …
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He had a worthy cause, but what I'm worried about is that the power elite may try to use that example from history because what John Brown did at his sentencing was he gave probably one of the second, he probably gave the second biggest spe…
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of the civil war after the gettysburg address and he gives this basically nathan hale like address he's been convicted of treason he's been convicted of of insurrection and rebellion uh they're gonna sentence him to death and he gives this …
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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…
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On another CIA operation in 1952, a civil air transport plane dropped CIA agents John Downey and Richard Bechtel with a supply of arms for Chiang Kai-shek's guerrillas. We are going to read that book. There's a book written about this. It i…
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and a veteran CIA executive by the name of John Bross, B-R-O-S-S. Thanks to Bush, and this is Bush Sr., of course, these teams also turned to a confidential outsider group of advisors that had among them Ted Shackley, who was obviously clos…
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But John Bross, B-R-O-S-S, who symbolized the CIA establishment, was worried about a campaign member, which he was, who had come with Casey to the CIA and who seemed to have great influence on him. Max Hugel, H-U-G-E-L, who was a Brooklyn, …
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Northeast Boys Club. Brose, who had come out of retirement to advise Casey, recalled one of the first times he ever laid eyes on Hoogle. And here comes Max sweeping under my arm, dressed like a dandy, smelling like aftershave lotion, ploppi…
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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…
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They're too stupid to plan a covert operation and then blame JFK for being a novice. At this point, Richard Bissell was called, oh, let's see. All right, so moving on. Now it was all up to Brigade 2506. The fleet of four ships and two landi…
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at least two to three days to mount any significant opposition. Bistel and other planners repeatedly used this estimate, yet their confidence in it was striking, given their complete ignorance of any conditions on the ground in Cuba. Admira…
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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 …
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At one of the numerous Washington discussions of how to limit damage caused by the defeat, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were amazed to hear Bissell say, after all of the talk of how an uprising was going to overthrow Castro, that the brigade w…
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in 1957 when the colonel commanding the area declared a state of emergency and replaced the civilian government there in their own form of coup. There's kind of controversy over whether that was an organic thing that happened or whether tha…
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for the overthrow. The active phase of Indonesia operations caused some uproar internal to the CIA. Alan Dulles kept in close contact, although he delegated the supervisory role mainly to Lieutenant General Charles Cabell, C-A-B-E-L-L. Bist…
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was going to be used over Indonesia to create intel. Cabal began to rely on Bissell's organizational skills for operational planning. Everybody was excited because they were going to pull off another coup. Umar exclaimed, we'll drive Lebano…
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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…
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So you have General Taylor, Robert Kennedy, and Alan Dulles, who was there representing the CIA. Admiral Arleigh Burke was there to speak on behalf of the Navy and their role in it. The board held 20 hearings with witnesses that included th…
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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…
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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…
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Meanwhile, feelings favored regulatory action on intelligence peaked in Congress during the middle of the years of the Carter administration. When charters were considered at hearings, the vast majority of the CIA officials testified agains…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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of two economists, one perhaps foremost in American Keynesian economics. The other man, who had long resisted Keynesian arguments, had ended up administering Keynesian-style foreign and military aid, first for the Marshall Plan, then for th…
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by other CIA failures. Galbraith argued his position energetically with the president, Robert Kennedy and McGeorge Bundy, the new NSD advisor. He then put his arguments in a memorandum he showed to Alan Dulles, Bissell, and other CIA offici…
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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…
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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 …
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and Bissell's initial overview paper borrowed heavily from Walt's speech. Very well known, once Rusto gave the talk at Fort Bragg. At the Pentagon, Ed Lansdale also prepared a paper, the first of several, which recited in bold numbers the s…
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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…
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Ewell, the general's kind of strong-arm guy, soaked up Bissell's comments and gave back Taylor's responses. Bissell's paper grew odd tentacles in successive drafts over the fall of 1961, presenting an update on covert action procedures to K…
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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…
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which his assistant, John Bross, distributed in November of 21, or on the 21st. Although Comer assured Bissell that his summary changes changed nothing in the paper, he told his boss, McGeorge Bundy, quote, I took advantage of Walt's immine…
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which his assistant, John Bross, distributed in November of 21, or on the 21st. Although Comer assured Bissell that his summary changes changed nothing in the paper, he told his boss, McGeorge Bundy, quote, I took advantage of Walt's immine…
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And if they actually try to get rid of the dictator, they're called insurgents. And then us going in to support the dictator and thwart the people is called counterinsurgency. Although we were the insurgents that installed the military dict…
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to winning broad-based popular... They were elected fucking presidents and prime ministers. They already had broad support. You just didn't like them. In such situations, the broad range of covert action measures available to us offers our …
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That's the CIA, not that country. The CIA is the, see how they flip the words around? That country managing its own shit is not an aggressor to anybody. Another important theme, which fed back to Walt Rostow's advocacy, was that public expr…
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task force paper contained Richard Bissell's statement of the techniques the Kennedy administration imagined would make the world safe for democracy. The counter-guerrilla warfare task force is a guerrilla warfare task force attacking a for…
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It also met Robert Comer's agenda, saying that, quote, because of its responsibility in directly related fields and because the agencies chiefly concerned are already represented on it, expansion of the mandate of the NSC special group seem…
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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…
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The troops that were at Apalaca under Al Haney covered several walls of his operation center with a complex flow chart tracking the many distinct parts of PB's success, showing current status and what needed doing before other portions of t…
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would join the rebels. None. At this point, the State Department backed off. So if you want to get your operation approved, just lie at will. A few days later, a full headquarters delegation visited Opelika in triumph. Frank Wisner, Tracy B…
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Once they were back in Washington, Richard Bissell spoke of a different paper, one that might show how much time had been wasted as a result of the fight with State Department. Blame somebody else. The CIA's big psychological war victory ca…
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or making rounds at forward bases, returned to the headquarters for consultations. These meetings were in the deputy director's office. They included Richard Helms, Dick Bissell, Kim Roosevelt, J.C. King, and Jake Esserlin. Wisner hammered …
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Hardware taken from CIA stockpiles or subsidies used in the coup d'etat. The actual number was at least double. Al Haney's air of covert operations came to an end. No further major assignments came his way. Rip Robertson branded a cowboy af…
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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…
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It was welcomed not only by Eisenhower, but the CIA as well. This is where the next chapter starts. And I'm just going to read like the first little bit of it. Just kind of set the tone and we'll go through the rest of it next week. As one …
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among key players. The true weakness in America's defense, he argued, lay not in the inability to face the Soviet Union or a potential invasion, but in the third world, where Bissell feared revolutions would ultimately be exploited by Mosco…
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except for it didn't exist. Not at the time they were doing covert operations. They just wanted control of all of these different outposts. They framed it as a communist adventure, but history does not substantiate that. But Bissell and the…
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not Hexer, sent a cable recommending a U.S. show of force, not arms to East Berliners. Alerting American forces in Germany might have put the Russians on warning. The cable reached CIA headquarters after Allen Dulles had left for the day. D…
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Far East Division. He had then headed stations in Athens and Vienna and had an idea of the enormity of the situation. The two men could only scratch their heads in frustration. Some sources maintain Wisner maintained possible arms shipments…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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He then told Gray to study the entire relationship between the CIA and the 5412 group. What happened next had less to do with Indonesia than with the president's desire to fine-tune his own staff. Although angry about the Haig fiasco, Eisen…
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thus guarding against self-serving data. Right. Dulles argued that the hall board had an exaggerated notion of what the DO was doing and their perceived autonomy. The last point is interesting in that one of its members, Jimmy Doolittle, ha…
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as a response to the hall board, asking the president to wait and see what became of their effort. By July, Bissell had finished his inquiry, and in response, Dulles made a few changes. Based on the survey's observation that actions to over…
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for the Caribbean, but this arrangement the survey viewed as inadequate. Bissell appointed as assistant DO just for psychological operations in paramilitary areas. The staff for these activities were regrouped into an operational services u…
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for the Caribbean, but this arrangement the survey viewed as inadequate. Bissell appointed as assistant DO just for psychological operations in paramilitary areas. The staff for these activities were regrouped into an operational services u…
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and 14th U-2 missions flew over the country, the first since the early planning for Project Circus. The vast majority of the CIA supply flights to Tibet took place over a 10-month period beginning in May 1959, though the agency never succee…
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talking about Bissell and U2, and then U2 makes you think about the band U2. And then, you know, it's just all this big circle connecting again and again and again of propaganda, which leads us to Propaganda Due. And it's like, no wonder th…
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meetings, because Interpol's like the international police kind of clearinghouse. So they go to an Interpol conference and are talking about this kind of nefarious stuff. Dick Bissell, who was at the time the chief of operations, along with…
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would be Harvard economist John Galbraith. Before leaving for his post on March 27th, 1961, Galbraith discussed CIA operations in India with Richard Bissell. There was an element of irony in this meeting. They were both economists, one perh…
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He found Kennedy subdued and too busy with the CIA failure in Cuba. He argued with the president, Bobby Kennedy, and McGeorge Bundy and put his objections to Dulles and Bissell, telling them Kennedy had been sympathetic to ending the projec…
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At CIA headquarters in New York on 1959, there was a subdued atmosphere as members of key people sat around the table awaiting news from Havana. Fletcher Prouty represented the Pentagon at the seance, which took place the day and the hour t…
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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…
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Alan Dulles had barely begun his introductory remarks when he had to take a call from the president. The group waited, Bissell silent, worked through a stack of cables. General Cabell slouched in his chair. Gossip over a Georgetown party wa…
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He was trying to persuade U.S. oil companies to stop refining crude for Castro at their Cuban refineries. Three weeks later, Charles Cabell briefed Vice President Nixon on the developments. Richard Bissell and J.C. King were on hand to take…
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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, he shot back that the training did not concern him. Just the possibil…
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And I'm convinced it won't fail. Stans went back and wrote a check to the CIA. One piece of the Cuban scheme was held so tightly that only a handful knew about it. Richard Bissell had a whole other track underway. During the spring there ha…
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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…