Word: mccone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early Risers. By now, word of the coup was reaching the world in fragments. Apparently, the first top official in Washington to hear about it was John McCone, chief of the Central Intelligence Agency, who had word flashed to him as early as 1:25 a.m. Secretary of State Dean Rusk was out of bed at 2 a.m., the President...
...addition to Secretary McNamara, those testifying last week before the Senate committeemen on behalf of the test ban treaty were: Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Glenn Seaborg, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Maxwell Taylor, and Central Intelligence Agency Director John McCone. The case they made was convincing-even though it did not relieve some Senators' doubts...
Another Pressure. In order, Seaborg, Taylor and McCone backed up the Rusk-McNamara argument that the treaty is in the best 'interests of the U.S. The Senate committeemen had been particularly anxious to hear Taylor. Did the Joint Chiefs of Staff, professional military men less interested in diplomatic advances than in U.S. might, support the test ban? Yes, said Taylor, they did. But some Senators were still concerned lest the Joint Chiefs had come to that decision not out of conviction but under pressure from the civilians of the Kennedy Administration. That fret was expressed in an exchange between...
...Venezuela. But now the flights have ended, leaving only the twice-weekly Cubana flight to Mexico-and Castro makes the most of it. The 96-seat Britannia is usually half full, an estimated 5,000 people flew back and forth last year. Of those, says CIA Director John A. McCone, about 1,500 have received indoctrination and guerrilla warfare training...
...while, according to CIA Director John McCone, Cuba-trained Communist sabotage and guerrilla experts are flooding the rest of Latin America. This is precisely the sort of activity that President Kennedy, only a few months ago, said that the U.S. would not tolerate. But what does the U.S. plan to do now? Apparently, very little. Said Kennedy at his press conference, in answer to a question about hemispheric subversion from Cuba: "There has been an Organization of American States committee which has reported on the need for control. Now it is up to the Latin American countries...