John A. McCone

American businessman and director of the CIA (1902-1991) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 89

John Alexander McCone was an American businessman and government official who served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1961 to 1965, during the height of the Cold War.

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The U.S. Representatives to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, circa 1960. From left to right: John Stephens Graham, Paul F. Foster, and McCone.

Awards

Presidential Medal of Freedom1987

Hoover Medal1964

James Cardinal Gibbons Medal

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