TRANSCRIPT OF HEARING WITH RICHARD BISSELL
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BISSELL, RICHARD

CASTRO

ASSASSINATION

CIA

DULLES, ALLEN

EISENHOWER

TRUJILLO

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

SILVER, ARNOLD

ZRRIFLE

MCCONE

GIANCANA, SAM

MAHEU, ROBERT

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

BAY OF PIGS

MAFIA

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MI. Schwarz. Now, Mr. Bissell, we went over the notes

in the other room, didn't we?

Mr. Bissell. Correct.

Mr. Schwarz. And I told you that Mr. Harvey testified that

those dates, 25-1 and 26-1 were January 25 and January 26?

Mr. Bissell. Correct.

Mr. Schwarz. And in reading the handwritten document

together, we agreed that it was talking about Executive Action,

didn't we?

Mr. Bissell. I think that is correct. Yes, I think that

is fair.

Mr. Schwarz. And it reflected a meeting between Mr.

Harvey and then in the first instance Mr. Gottiteb and in the

second instance Mr. Arnold Silver is that correct?

MI. Bissell. (Correct.

Mr. Schwarz. All right.

Now, in light of that document, those dates, excuse me,

does that have any effect upon your prior testimony that you had

no reason to question Mr. Harvey's statement that at the occa-

sion you asked him to set up the capability you said that the

White House had twice urged you to do so?

Mr. Bissell. Yes. I think these dates do call that into

question, because, accepting these dates, which are Mr. Harvey's

own notations, it is clear that I had given him at least some

exposure to that assignment at the end of January, just at the

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