he fired allen dulles, richard bissell and he fired charles koppel was the second-in-command of the cia. he fired the whole top. he was upset with the caa. he thought the cia misled them. hardeeville young to understand that was scapegoating, and i don't mean it as being highly critical. even before the invasion arthur schlesinger wrote a memo saying if something should batch of happen, somebody snagged has to go on the chopping block and it can't be the president. so it was the cia's, and to -- that's part of the top of the caa, you know, they have to take the heat when things like this happen. and day, they, you know, it was their baby and bissell, it was the end of his career certainly. he worked at a corporation in connecticut the rest of his life and change the lives of many people in the caa whose careers basically, not just the top three guys, ended with a. kennedy was clergy want to shatter the cia into a thousand pieces. he didn't do that but he was certainly upset. do we have time for one more? let's do one more question here and then we will speed does the book explore the is

. >> or richard bissell.was there any further delving? >> yeah, it was invitation has been proper to dulles. and in dulles papers, i found the invitation. it was from the young president's association. basically, it was a young american retreat. they invited dulles to come talk to them. dulles went, because it was thought if he didn't go, it would be a stepoff to castro. if he did go to port -- puerto rico, it would be one more indication that the united states had nothing to do with this. now in moscow, the newspapers immediately as early as the 18th, he was intentionally in puerto rico. at the same time, he was chatting to the group of young executives. it is rather bizarre. it was thought to be the right thing to do. he didn't know much about what was happening until he came back that evening and learned at the airport how badly things were going. then he told the aid, let's get a stiff drink. that's how he handled that. i think we need to cut it off here. i'll take your -- can we do any more questions or

he has passed so he is all from the archives but the first man to run area 51 in his name was richard bissell and he is famous with cia lee jennifer unnerve -- legend for a number of things would ultimately had to step down for taking all of the blame for the bay of pigs. i explained i think he got the bad rap on that but so it goes when you work with that kind of a business but asking about the budget budget, finding out in my research richard bissell was a brilliant economist became the executor of finance for the marshall plan something like $13 billion at the disposal to help build europe and a friend came knocking at his door one night in washington d.c. by a and name of frank wapner and they sat in front of the fireplace and he said we need some money for the group that the cia and because they had dat mutual friend come of this whole new better than to ask many more questions and agreed that would be all right. that diverted from the planned about two and a half years later but then area 51 was up and running. >> several people want you to cut to the little men. [laughter] by told her