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  John McCone - Demopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
John Alex McCone (January 4, 1902 - February 14, 1991) was an American businessman and politician who served as Director of Central Intelligence Agency during the height of the Cold War.
McCone was born in San Francisco, California, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1922.
While McCone was director the CIA was heavily involved in the Congo, supplying mercenaries and arms to the supporters of Sese Seko Mobutu.
demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php?title=John_McCone&...   (477 words)

  
 Docs 208-230
McCone dealt at length on the improper organization of the NRO and the fact that as presently organized, the research and developments of the Air Force under General Schriever were totally excluded and every effort was made, both overtly and covertly, by the D/NRO and the NRO Staff to exclude CIA from participation.
McCone said an excess of [less than 1 line of source text not declassified] was appropriated in 1965 for research and development by CIA and that he didn't think that SecDef or anyone else had the authority to exercise a veto on the expenditure of this fund, and he had no intentions of stopping.
McCone said this was not the issue, as there was no intention in his mind or anyone in CIA to become involved in the development or operation of launchers and boosters since this could be adequately done by the Air Force.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/frus/johnsonlb/xxxiii/32653.htm   (15467 words)

  
 The Cuban Photo Gap
John McCone, the director of central intelligence (DCI), and the CIA as a whole were deeply distrusted by key administration officials in the weeks leading up to discovery of the missiles.
McCone was virtually a novice with regard to the craft of intelligence, and inflicting an outsider on the CIA was considered an even graver punishment than saddling it with a dogmatic man known for his molten temper and “slide-rule mind.”[8]
McCone met with President Kennedy and the attorney general privately on 26 September, shortly after returning to Washington but apparently was unable to reverse the administration’s “near-crippling caution,” as Richard Helms later termed it, until the approved overflight schedule had at least run its course.
area51specialprojects.com /cuban_photo_gap.html   (8629 words)

  
 Conversation with John McCone, cover page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the fall of 1987 and the spring of 1988, Harry Kreisler interviewed the distinguished University of California alumnus John A. McCone (class of 1922).
McCone served his country for more than twenty years as advisor and governmental official.
McCone served on numerous commissions that made recommendations on issues as diverse as civilian applications of military technology and the Watts riots.
globetrotter.berkeley.edu /conversations/McCone/mccone-con0.html   (190 words)

  
 John McCone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Alexander McCone (January 4, 1902 - February 14, 1991) was an American businessman and politician who served as Director of Central Intelligence during the height of the Cold War.
McCone was born in San Francisco, California, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1922 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.
McCone resigned from his position of DCI in April 1965, correctly believing himself to be unappreciated by President Johnson.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_McCone   (434 words)

  
 The Cuban Missile Crisis | Linda K. Miller and Mary McAuliffe | OAH Magazine of History
It was against this background that John A. McCone in late July and early August of 1962 began to notice intelligence reports indicating a large and unexplained buildup of Soviet equipment and personnel in Cuba.
McCone, who in 1962 was Director of Central Intelligence, was a very successful west coast engineer and businessman who had served as Secretary of the Air Force under Truman and chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission under Eisenhower.
McCone was furious, warning that he could not properly advise the National Security Council on the presence or absence of offensive missiles in Cuba without full overflight coverage of these areas--the places where he thought it most likely we would find offensive missiles going in.
www.oah.org /pubs/magazine/coldwar/miller.html   (1811 words)

  
 Friends In High Places.    (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Former CIA director John McCone was as close to the privately held mercenary Bechtel Corporation as one could get, short of being born into the Bechtel family: in 1937 McCone teamed with Steve Bechtel to form Bechtel-McCone Corporation, a military industrial juggernaut with deep intelligence connections.
John McCone later became Deputy Secretary of Defense (1948); Under Secretary of the Air Force (1950-51); Chairman of the secretive Atomic Energy Commission (1958-1960); and CIA Director (1961-1965).
John McCone was chairman of the NSF during Project Mercury.
thewebfairy.com /911/uav/13.htm   (6109 words)

  
 Testimony Of John A. Mccone And Richard M. Helms
Director McCone, it is customary for the Chairman to make a short statement to the witness as to the testimony that is expected to be given.
McCone, in your investigation of the Oswald matter did you use the same approach or a comparable approach to a liaison with the other intelligence agencies of government to try to discover anything that might involve your jurisdiction.
McCone, that the methods for exchange of information between intelligence agencies of the Government could be materially improved.
mcadams.posc.mu.edu /russ/testimony/helms1.htm   (4854 words)

  
 Statement of the Vestry of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Bristol, CT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
John’s as a parish is not intentionally withholding funds from the diocese.
McCone talked about her own fears during the morning service, which drew less than a quarter of the congregation of about 200 people.
McCone asked members to come speak with her later in the evening at a special meeting called by Smith and open only to church members.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-religion/1445503/posts   (4078 words)

  
 Digital History
McCone immediately began to implement this initiative, justifying it to Secretary Rusk on 7 January with the observation that MACV and Embassy reporting had proved "incorrect" because of their reliance on Vietnamese province and district chiefs who felt obliged to "create statistics" that would please their Saigon superiors.
McCone was a member of the McNamara-Taylor party, and his pessimism about the Vietnam situation clearly contributed to the draining of the Pentagon leaders' remaining optimism about South Vietnamese conduct of the war.
McCone felt strongly at this time, however, that US airstrikes against the North would suffice to contain and deter the enemy and that US ground forces should not be committed in the South.
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /learning_history/vietnam/escalate05.cfm   (8536 words)

  
 The Cold War and the Assassination of JFK - The Education Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
McCone became the representative of the military-industrial complex in government.
McCone was an ardent Cold War warrior and in 1956 attacked the suggestion made by Adlai Stevenson that there should be a nuclear test ban.
John Martino said that their Cuban protectors could get them safely to the northern coast of the island and thence by boat to some agreed-upon rendezvous point in the Bahamas if we acted immediately.
educationforum.ipbhost.com /index.php?showtopic=824   (9299 words)

  
 Newhouse A1
CIA Director John McCone arrives at the White House for a conference with President John F. Kennedy in October 1962.
Turner and Gannon cited John McCone, a California business executive and Atomic Energy Commission chairman who was President John F. Kennedy's surprise choice in 1961 to head the CIA.
McCone won praise for suggesting the Soviet Union was moving nuclear missiles into Cuba -- a development that led to the Cuban missile crisis.
www.newhousenews.com /archive/mccutcheon061604.html   (729 words)

  
 ch6
John McCone was unable to make the trip because of his involvement in the negotiations of the nuclear test ban but he arranged for Jack Floberg, a good friend and another of the commissioners, to be present.
John McCone, however, rather strongly objected on the basis that the question of the resolution to be expected from the television cameras in the meteorological satellites might be subject to review by Khrushchev.
John McCone suggested that we ask our staffs to nominate possible candidates for the job of managing the Rover program in the AEC and NASA.
history.nasa.gov /SP-4105/ch6.htm   (11464 words)

  
 Sander Hicks
McCone began in the steel industry before World War II, and from 1941-1946 he was president and director of the California Shipbuilding Company.
McCone resigned in 1965 partly because the CIA's intelligence sources in Vietnam were being ignored by Johnson in favor of the Pentagon's more optimistic sources.
In 1965 McCone was appointed by Gov. Brown to investigate the unrest in Watts.
www.sanderhicks.com /mccone.html   (2917 words)

  
 Conversation with John McCone, page 4 of 6
John McCone Interview: Conversations with History; Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
McCone, there are other things in the world more important than making money." And I said: "Yes, I assume that you're discussing this concerning this proposal that a certain corporation has made to buy my company....
I mentioned it to John Foster Dulles as a reason why he should tread cautiously about disassociating the United States from Castro.
globetrotter.berkeley.edu /conversations/McCone/mccone-con4.html   (3372 words)

  
 FRUS 1961-63, Vol. XI Cuba: 376-390 documents and memos
McCone stated that proposal involved substantial sabotage actions and that the Lansdale Task Force should be permitted to proceed without further reference to the Special Group.
McCone stated that the purpose of the meeting was to again review the situation in Cuba in light of the most recent intelligence findings.
Furthermore, McCone stated that he felt that if a reasonable deal could be made for the release of the prisoners, the Committees of Congress would change the view expressed a year ago at the time of the tractor negotiation.
www.fas.org /irp/ops/policy/docs/frusX/376_390.html   (8679 words)

  
 Nevada State Historic Preservation - Nevada Historical Markers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Mead, McCone and Tascar first established a foundry in this area in 1862 at Johntown two miles southeast of here in Gold Canyon.
John McCone became the sole proprietor in 1866.
McCone then bought the Fulton Foundry in Virginia City and made it the largest in the state; 110 men were employed at its peak.
dmla.clan.lib.nv.us /docs/SHPO/markers/mark_185.htm   (133 words)

  
 TIME.com: CIA's New Boss -- Oct. 6, 1961 -- Page 1
John Kennedy knew he would have to start casting about for a new U.S. intelligence chief: Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Welsh Dulles told the President elect that he hoped to retire within a year.
McCone asked for a week to think it over, went back home to San Marino to talk the job over with his wife Rosemary, then called in his acceptance.
John McCone studied engineering at the University of California, hired himself out as a riveter after his graduation in 1922.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,827786,00.html   (778 words)

  
 McCartney,L. Friends in High Places. 1988
An example of the former is John McCone (1902-1991), who made $44 million during World War II on an investment of $100,000.
McCone was involved in the 1973 coup in Chile as a director of ITT, and his other corporate connections are too numerous to mention.
From 1937-1945 McCone was the president of Bechtel-McCone, which became the privately-held Bechtel Corporation when he was bought out after the war.
www.namebase.org /sources/JX.html   (264 words)

  
 FRUS 1961-63, Vol. XI Cuba: 331-345 documents and memos
Action: McCone agreed to arrange briefing for the President at the earliest convenient time; also briefing for Macmillan when he is here, at a convenient time.
Maheu reported that John Rosselli said he was not interested in any remuneration but would seek to establish capabilities in Cuba to perform the desired project.
Throughout the entire period of the project John Rosselli was the dominant figure in directing action to the Cuban principals.
www.fas.org /irp/ops/policy/docs/frusX/331_345.html   (7031 words)

  
 Docs 139-182
Director of Central Intelligence John McCone's notes for NSC meetings prior to his resignation on April 28, 1965, are at the Johnson Library (John McCone Memoranda of Meetings with the President) and at the Central Intelligence Agency (DCI (McCone) Files).
John McCloy is out of town, so I have spoken to his successor, Jay Stratton, who is a deeply discreet man. Stratton immediately undertook to agree, in the name of the Trustees, to the condition which I have stated in the next to last paragraph.
John McCloy personally, and asked him to work out a time schedule for the transfer in terms of the national interest alone--and then to see if that schedule was acceptable to Mr.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/frus/johnsonlb/xxxiii/32651.htm   (17284 words)

  
 Kennedy assassination homepage
Lansdale produced a memorandum and asked Harvey to look into the question of liquidation of leaders and McCone was so infuriated that he "blew up, called McNamara and demanded that it be withdrawn." McCone made it clear that "the United States would not, as a matter of general policy, endorse assassinations".
John F. Kennedy had in fact authorized U.S. representative William Attwood to begin a series of talks with the Cuban ambassador to the United Nations to discuss accommodation between Castro and the United States.
The extraordinary degree of secrecy makes it difficult to unravel the specific details of the covert operations of Special Group 5412, but the emotional commitment of known members is definite enough that it is ultimately possible to "chip away" at the excessive secrecy.
www.geocities.com /zzzpeace/specialgroup.htm   (3050 words)

  
 President John F. Kennedy Secret White House Recordings
John F. Kennedy was the first president to extensively record his meetings and telephone conversations.The recordings consists of Meeting Recordings, mainly of meetings in the Cabinet Room and Oval Office, and Dictabelts, mainly of telephone conversations.
Neither John F. Kennedy nor his brother Robert F. Kennedy left behind any documents or recorded comments on the reasons for these recordings.
There is no evidence of receipts, memoranda, letters, notes or other documents contemporary to the Kennedy administration that deal with the recordings systems and their installation.
www.paperlessarchives.com /jfk_tapes.html   (2143 words)

  
 FRUS 1961-63, Vol. XI: 26-50 Briefing Papers & Memo series
McCone, when asked to serve with the air strike group, begged off on the ground that his position and duties on the US Intelligence Board made it undesirable for him to participate in the working group.
John McCone reported yesterday that a Soviet ship believed to be the vessel in which the Soviets have been sending missiles to Cuba has made a sufficient number of trips to that island within recent weeks to offload approximately 48 missiles.
McCone read a summary of the situation, copy of which is attached./1/ This statement had been discussed with the President, Attorney General and Bundy and had been modified to conform to their views.
karws.gso.uri.edu /Marsh/Bay_of_Pigs/26_50.html   (21678 words)

  
 Author Interview: Marcia Muller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A: She's first-named for my college roommate, last-named for the late John McCone, former head of the CIA.
McCone learned of this and, fortunately, was amused.
Imagine the whole process complicated by the presence in the two-seater plane of a third party — the invisible Sharon McCone.
www.twbookmark.com /authors/67/463/interview8087.html   (413 words)

  
 Boston.com / Boston Globe Magazine
McCone's latest hunch is that General Don is a double agent working for Diem.
He directs McCone to devise a reorganization proposal for the Saigon CIA station, though, he says, "I don't think we can set up any satisfactory contact other than Conein between now and November 2d." Lodge will soon return to America for new instructions.
McCone's words are more convincing in Bobby Kennedy's mouth than in his own.
graphics.boston.com /globe/magazine/1999/10-24/featurestory1.shtml   (5138 words)

  
 ThisCanadian: John DeathSquad Negroponte with NSA Presidential Powers: From Director of Central Intelligence to ...
His successor, John McCone, became embroiled in the bitter battles between the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology and the leadership of the National Reconnaissance Office over control of satellite programs - at one point submitting a memorandum that would have abolished the NRO.
During his tenure as DCI, Richard Helms complained that while he was ostensibly responsible for the activities of the entire intelligence community, he only controlled 15% of its resources, with almost all the remaining 85% in the hands of the Secretary of Defense.
Over the years, presidents have issued directives, beginning with a 1962 letter from John Kennedy to John McCone, that expressed their desire that the DCI should coordinate the activities of the entire community.
thiscanadian.typepad.com /this_canadian/2006/05/john_deathsquad.html   (978 words)

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