Richard M. Bissell

Richard M. Bissell  link Powerbase Spartacus (Spook)
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Born	Richard Mervin Bissell Jr. September 18, 1909 Hartford, Connecticut
Died	February 7, 1994 Farmington, Connecticut, United States
Alma mater	Groton School,Yale,London School of Economics
Member of The Georgetown Set strongly suspected of being involved in the JFK Assassination

Not to be confused with Richard E. Bissell, of USAID.

Richard Mervin Bissell Jr. was a US spook.

Bckground

Richard Bissell studied history at Yale University, and was tapped, but declined membership in Skull and Bones, although his brother William joined.

Career

Frank Wisner persuaded him to join the Central Intelligence Agency. Bissel became a senior CIA officer responsible for major projects such as the U-2 spy plane and the Bay of Pigs Invasion. According to the Independent, Bissell was "the central covert operations man in the Central Intelligence Agency for the central period of the cold war":

Not the most well-known nor the highest-ranking official, Bissell was the man who planned and gave the orders for such low points in American cold-war dirty tricks as the overthrow of Patrice Lumumba, the disastrous invasion of Cuba and the numerous (failed) attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro.