Word: mccone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Once. Throughout Monday, Oct. 15, the experts pored over the pictures. There could be no doubt. Early on Oct. 16 a telephone call went to CIA Director John McCone, who was in Seattle mourning the death there of his stepson. It was 4 a.m. on the Coast, but McCone came awake in shocked realization of the grave impact of the news. When he had heard the last detail, he ordered the pictures taken to the President at once...
...flair for macabre melodrama. In this baleful light, it became completely clear to Kennedy that the U.S. had no course but to squash the Soviet missile buildup. But how? In his long, soul-trying talks with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, State Secretary Dean Rusk, the CIA's McCone and other top civilian and military officials, the plan was arduously worked out. Direct invasion of Cuba was discarded-for the time being. So was a surprise bombing attack on the missile sites. Both methods might cause Khrushchev to strike back instinctively and plunge the world into thermonuclear war. More than...
Married. John Alex McCone, 60, director of the Central Intelligence Agency and former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission; and Theiline McGee Pigott, 59, widow of Seattle Industrialist Paul Pigott and a friend of McCone's since college days at the University of California; both for the second time (McCone's wife died last year after 23 years of marriage); in Seattle...
...test to Washington for top decision by AEC Chairman Seaborg. Military experts fired off plans to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Actual programming was done by AEC's atom-wise general manager, Major General Alvin Luedecke, 51, and Defense's brilliant, abrasive research chief, Harold Brown, 34. At McCone's suggestion, Kennedy tapped Starbird for overall field boss; Starbird in turn selected Ogle to run the scientific end of the show. Since Eniwyetok and Bikini were uncomfortably close to sizable Asiatic populations and technically under the control of the test-skittish United Nations, Kennedy persuaded Prime Minister Macmillan...
...been paved for Powers by Central Intelligence Agency Director John McCone in two days of closed-door testimony. McCone assured the committee that Powers had lived up to his $30,000-a-year CIA contract. During and after his Moscow trial. Powers had been criticized in the U.S. for admitting too much. But McCone provided the committee with a memorandum explaining that U-2 pilots had been instructed, in case of misadventure, to "surrender without resistance," "adopt a cooperative attitude," and to feel "perfectly free to tell the full truth" about the nature of their missions and their employment...