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John McconeJohn Alex 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. A prominent industrialist, McCone also served for more than twenty years as a governmental advisor and official. Most importantly, he was chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (1958 - 1961) and director of the CIA (1961 - 1965). Throughout his career, he served on numerous commissions that made recommendations on issues as diverse as civilian applications of military technology and the Watts riots. (See Violence in the City -- An End or a Beginning?: A Report by the Governor's Commision on the Los Angeles Riots.) See also McCone, John McCone, John McCone, John
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