Richard Bissell

Bissell was a man who worked for the CIA. He was an important figure during the Cold War. Bissell was to fly the U2 spy plane over Soviet Territory. Richard Bissell also had to take the risk of "committing 22 million from the CIA's secret fund to the skunk-works project. Bissell also had to manage the project secretly. Bissell went to Yale Today, we have many more mechanical systems, whereas back then human error was much more likely. That being said, the CIA was much more influential back than. Based on the CIA's four main functions, I think the anti-communist sentiment contributed to the agency's misstep's and failures because we were overaggressive and made moves we shouldn't have. All in all, Richard Bissell was a very important man in the Cold War era, and the CIA.