CIA's Deepest Secrets - Part One

Start With Richard Bissell, Sidney Gottlieb, And The Health Alteration Committee

Most CIA historians know Richard Bissell as the CIA man behind the U-2 spy plane development and the Corona Keyhole satellite during the early 1960s in the Cold War.

George Webb at CIA Lookout Mountain Air Force Base Near Hollywood.

But fewer historians see the history of Sidney Gottlieb and Richard Bissell in developing an assassination poisoning program in early 1960 called the Health Alteration Committee.

🧠 DETAILED SUMMARY

The article explores how Richard Bissell, a top CIA operations official, worked with Sidney Gottlieb—the agency’s notorious chemist and head of MKULTRA—to establish a covert assassination and incapacitation program euphemistically called the Health Alteration Committee.

This secret program aimed to eliminate perceived enemies of the CIA using drugs, poisons, and other psychological or biological tools. FBI agents aligned with the Kennedys, who resisted CIA overreach, were allegedly targeted by this committee, forming what some researchers now call the “Dead FBI Agents Society.”

The piece argues that Lee Harvey Oswald was manipulated through CIA false defector programs, connected directly to James Angleton, Bissell, and Otto Otepka, and used to undermine President Kennedy’s plans.

The article suggests that many Cold War events—from the U-2 shootdown to the JFK assassination—were engineered to advance CIA satellite surveillance, protect drug trafficking routes, and preserve the autonomy of the intelligence community from elected leadership.

Richard Bissell of the CIA wanted the Agency to own space, the new high ground in warfare, and the Corona Satellite flew above the Karman Line of 327, 360 feet vs the U-2’s 60,000 feet altitude flights.

The CIA, State Department, and their private intelligence networks are depicted as key instruments in eroding the U.S. Constitution since World War II.

Ultimately, the article connects decades of assassinations and covert operations to a legacy of internal subversion and false flag activities, all emerging from the clandestine policies and infrastructure established by Bissell, Gottlieb, Angleton, and others during the 1950s and 60s.

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👤 PEOPLE

Richard Bissell

• Deputy Director for Plans at the CIA and architect of both the U-2 spy plane and Corona (Keyhole) satellite programs.

• Created the Health Alteration Committee to discreetly eliminate threats to CIA operations.

• Orchestrated the Bay of Pigs invasion, later regarded as a major Kennedy-era intelligence failure.

• Played a central role in Cold War intelligence escalation and false-flag strategy.

• Allegedly manipulated reconnaissance intelligence to influence JFK’s decisions on Cuba and the USSR.

Sidney Gottlieb

• CIA chemist and head of the infamous MKULTRA mind control program.

• Tasked by Bissell to lead operations under the Health Alteration Committee—using poisons, drugs, and biological agents for covert assassinations.

• Known as the “Poisoner in Chief” for his experimentation on both foreign targets and unwitting Americans.

• Associated with failed attempts to assassinate foreign leaders like Fidel Castro.

• Represented the operational heart of CIA black operations throughout the 1950s–70s.

James Angleton

• Chief of CIA Counterintelligence and liaison to Israel’s Mossad.

• Closely tied to Bissell and Otepka in developing surveillance and false defector operations.

• Managed Lee Harvey Oswald’s movements and may have facilitated the leak of invasion plans to the USSR.

• Accused of obstructing investigations into CIA wrongdoings, including JFK’s assassination.

• Believed to be the architect of many internal CIA subversion programs against American officials.

Otto Otepka

• Director of the State Department’s Office of Security (SY) and gatekeeper of security clearances.

• Played a key role in helping the CIA plant covert assets inside the government under the guise of diplomatic security.

• Flagged Oswald as a Soviet "tourist" despite knowing his Top Secret clearance history.

• Fought with RFK over personnel control, was demoted under JFK, and reinstated under Nixon.

• Considered a foundational figure in the formation of the post-WWII American Deep State.

Lee Harvey Oswald

• Accused assassin of President Kennedy, presented here as a CIA-controlled false defector.

• Sent to the USSR with the knowledge of Bissell, Angleton, and Otepka to lay the groundwork for Cold War escalation.

• Allegedly leaked OPLAN 314/316 invasion plans to Soviet agents like Valery Kostikov.

• Worked at a CIA-linked photo analysis firm prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

• Used by the CIA to sabotage Kennedy’s Cuba invasion and advance satellite surveillance justification.

John F. Kennedy

• 35th U.S. President, depicted as an adversary of CIA covert programs and military-industrial excess.

• Planned a full-scale invasion of Cuba (OPLAN 314/316), which was sabotaged by internal leaks.

• Opposed the CIA’s drug trafficking partnerships and Cold War escalations.

• Refused to invade Cuba after suspecting intelligence manipulation involving U-2 imagery.

• Ultimately assassinated in 1963, allegedly by a Deep State conspiracy involving CIA elements.

Robert F. Kennedy

• U.S. Attorney General and JFK’s closest advisor; opposed CIA overreach and defended constitutional authority.

• Clashed directly with Otepka and the CIA over staffing and intelligence ethics.

• His efforts to dismantle internal CIA networks made him a target, eventually leading to his assassination in 1968.

• Advocated investigations into organized crime and intelligence corruption.

• Represents a symbol of the Kennedy administration’s constitutionalist resistance to covert state power.

Valery Kostikov

• KGB officer stationed in Mexico City, allegedly met Oswald in 1962 (not 1963, as official records claim).

• Believed to have received U.S. invasion plans from Oswald before the Cuban Missile Crisis.

• His meeting with Oswald is viewed as a linchpin in CIA false defector manipulation.

• Publicly tied to the JFK assassination narrative as a Soviet connection.

• His presence in the Oswald timeline suggests premeditated intelligence theater.

Thomas F. O’Loughlin (“McDuff”)

• FBI agent working within STRICOM (Strike Command) and liaising with the Joint Chiefs during the 1960s.

• Investigated the infiltration of covert intelligence networks into military operations.

• Researched CIA involvement in disrupting Kennedy's military plans through disinformation.

• Played a behind-the-scenes role in understanding the true nature of JFK-era covert policy sabotage.

• His story is told in George Webb’s book Let’s Call Him McDuff.

This is the story of the CIA’s most closely guarded secrets and the skullduggery of the Agency to eliminate all those who stood in their way for the role of overlord in Washington, DC.

Richard Bissell, number two man at the CIA, created the “Health Alteration Committee” to take out FBI Agents and other Federal officials who tried to protect the elected President and the Constitution. In the process, Bissell enlisted prisoners like Sidney Gottlieb to stealthily eliminate those who would stand in the CIA’s path to supremacy.

Bissell and Gottlieb’s much larger covert poisoning assassination capability was being developed for the assassination of Congo’s President Patrice Lumumba, though it was never used. Then Richard Bissell and Sidney Gottlieb turned their Health Alteration Committee toward Cuba and Fidel Castro with poison pills and ballpoint pens with microscopic syringes filled with poisons.

I have been on the chase for all the documents for the CIA’s assassination Murder Inc in the Carribean since 2017 because I believe this Health Alteration Committee morphed into Operation Mongoose that was used to kill President John F. Kennedy and many of the loyal FBI Agents around him.

These “Get Castro” activities were run out of the JMWAVE CIA office in Miami, Florida, which I had a chance to visit and talk with some CIA old-timers.

I have felt for seven years that if you declassify the files around the “Health Alteration Committee”, Operation Mongoose, and the files of FBI Agent Thomas O’Loughlin, you will have the answer to the CIA cabal that killed JFK.

Scholar Steven Kinzer’s book, “Poisoner In Chief”, outlines Gottlieb's development of a poisoning assassination plan for the CIA’s Number Two man, Richard Bissell.

At one point, the Chicago Mob’s Johnny Roselli is hired with Sam Giancana to deliver Gottlieb’s poisons to Castro. You will notice how this same cabal become the key CIA and Chicago Mob suspects in the murder of John F. Kennedy. I also believe, based on Bissell’s description of himself as a “man-eating shark”, that these Health Alteration Committee poisons were used on FBI Agents that got in the way of the CIA’s plans to control the Presidency.

I wrote a book about the death of one such FBI Agent, Thomas O'Loughlin, who was very close to the Kennedys. I wrote the book in close collaboration with the son of the FBI Agent, John OLoughlin (John dropped the apostrophe in his name).

I am working very hard right now to encourage Kash Patel of the FBI and Pam Bondi of the Department of Justice to declassify all of the Thomas O’Loughlin files, who I nicknamed McDuff after the Shakespearean hero of Macbeth. I feel if we pull this string, the entire CIA assassination program of Presidents and FBI Agents that get in the way of their ambitions will be laid bare.

John OLoughlin is a Georgetown lawyer, author, and historian of this period of the Cold War with FBI and CIA history as well. His book about his father can be found on Amazon at this URL.

https://www.amazon.com/McDuff-Lives-Untimely-Thomas-OLoughlin/dp/B09FCCR6QC

My substack on Thomas O’Loughlin can be found here.

I also wrote the PermIndex Ruse about Thomas O’Loughlin.