Richard M. Bissell Jr

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Richard Bissell

Richard M. Bissell Jr (1909-1994) was the CIA's Deputy Director For Plans, head of its Directorate of Plans from 1959 to 1964.[1]

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.[2]

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  1. Phillip Frazer, Obituary: Richard Bissell, Independent, 3 March 1994.
  2. Phillip Frazer, Obituary: Richard Bissell, Independent, 3 March 1994.