John A. McCone
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| Director of Central Intelligence | |
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In office November 29, 1961 – April 28, 1965 |
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| President |
John F. Kennedy Lyndon Johnson |
| Deputy |
Charles P. Cabell Marshall Carter |
| Preceded by | Allen Dulles |
| Succeeded by | William Raborn |
| Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission | |
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In office July 14, 1958 – January 20, 1961 |
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| President | Dwight Eisenhower |
| Preceded by | Lewis Strauss |
| Succeeded by | Glenn T. Seaborg |
| United States Under Secretary of the Air Force | |
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In office June 15, 1950 – October 12, 1951 |
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| President | Harry Truman |
| Preceded by | Arthur S. Barrows |
| Succeeded by | Roswell Gilpatric |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
John Alexander McCone January 4, 1902 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Died | February 14, 1991 (aged 89) Pebble Beach, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Theiline McGee (m. 1962; his death 1991) |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (BS) |
John Alexander McCone (January 4, 1902 – February 14, 1991) was an American businessman and politician who served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1961 to 1965, during the height of the Cold War.
John A. McCone was born in San Francisco, California on January 4, 1902. His father ran iron foundries across California, a business started in Nevada in 1860 by McCone's grandfather. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1922 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, beginning his career in Los Angeles' Llewellyn Iron Works.
He rose swiftly and in 1929, when several works merged to become the Consolidated Steel Corporation, he became executive vice president. He also founded Bechtel-McCone.
He also worked for the ITT corporation. In 1946, Ralph Casey of the General Accounting Office implied that McCone was a war profiteer, testifying that McCone and his associates of the California Shipbuilding Corporation had made $44,000,000 on an investment of $100,000." McCone's political affiliation was with the Republican Party.
A prominent industrialist, McCone also served for more than twenty years as a governmental adviser and official, including head positions at the Atomic Energy Commission in the Eisenhower Administration in 1958-1961 and with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Kennedy Administration and the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration in 1961-1965.
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