Talk:John A. McCone

Categories not supported in article
I have removed Category:Roman Catholics and Category:Knights of Malta. Although I have reason to believe that both of these are in fact correct, the article does not mention any of this, and thusly applying the categories is presently inappropriate. __meco (talk) 13:17, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

They're not "inappropriate", you're just afraid of retribution by them. And anyone who says that John Kennedy approved or supported the overthrow of the Diem brothers is a bald faced liar, which is what this article says without any shred of proof. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.23.21.81 (talk) 00:07, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Forgive me for being completely lost as far as the proper fundamentals of posting a question about this article. John Mccone was the director of ITT in 1973 when they backed the coup in Chile ousting Salvador Allende from office. I would think this should be mentioned on the page, but I really didn't want to post it improperly, so I figured I would post on the talk page and let a more experienced wikipedia user sort it out. There is an article about the issue in TIME from 1973 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903932-1,00.html

And there is plenty more information on the web surrounding this. 205.154.44.2 (talk) 19:57, 12 January 2011 (UTC)Bill Ritter

Conspired with the FBI
I landed here after reading a line in the April 16, 2012 issue of The Nation. Perhaps it would be useful to an editor here. "official disclosures in 1984 revealed that John McCone, Kennedy's CIA director, head of the Atomic Energy Commission and Bechtel executive, conspired with the FBI in a 'psychological warfare campaign' against the Free Speech Movement and to elect Ronald Reagan governor of California." from Participatory Democracy from Port Huron to Occupy Wall Street by Tom Hayden 24.162.244.138 (talk) 23:52, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I want detail. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:4E9F:D101:5CBE:469F:427D:3656 (talk) 11:47, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Possible copyright problem
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Declassified CIA report concluded director led 'cover up' of Kennedy assassination investigation
A declassified CIA report concludes former agency Director John McCone withheld information about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy Jr., according to a recent news story. The 2013 report, declassified last fall, concludes that McCone, who ran the spy agency when Kennedy was fatally shot in November 1963, kept information from the Warren Commission during its investigation into the assassination. The report’s author, CIA historian David Robarge, writes that McCone and other top CIA officials were part of a "benign cover-up" to keep the commission focused on what the agency believed at the time was the "best truth … that Lee Harvey Oswald, for as yet undetermined motives, had acted alone," according to Politico Magazine. The commission was established by President Johnson days after the assassination to investigate the tragedy and is officially known as the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy. Robarge also writes that McCone and the others were "complicit" in keeping "incendiary" information from the commission. McCone died in 1991. His testimony before Chief Justice Earl Warren and the rest of the commission was considered vital in the effort to get to the bottom of Kennedy’s death. The commission's final report concurred with McCone's assessment that Oswald, a former Marine and Marxist, was the “lone gunman” and acted alone. However, commission members also heard testimony from hundreds of other witnesses, reviewed FBI and Secret Service reports, visited the Dallas crime scene and analyzed Oswald’s personal records, as part of their roughly year-long investigation. The 888-page report found the 46-year-old Kennedy was fatally shot while riding in a motorcade below a school book depository building. However, many people are unconvinced and argue that Oswald was part of a larger plot or conspiracy to kill Kennedy, perhaps in connection with Russia or Cuba. Within an hour of Kennedy being shot, Oswald, who worked in the book depository building, killed a policeman who questioned him. He was arrested minutes later. However, Oswald was murdered the next day while being taken to a more secure jail, his motives and potentially connections never fully revealed. Robarge's article also states that McCone was sure that Oswald acted alone and directed the agency to provide only “passive, reactive and selective” assistance to the commission, according to Politico. The portrayal also suggests that McCone was more involved in commission dealings than previously thought. The report quotes another senior CIA official, who heard McCone say that he intended to "handle the whole (commission) business myself, directly," the Politico story says.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/10/declassified-cia-report-concluded-director-mccone-led-cover-up-kennedy/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.169.159.138 (talk) 14:24, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

External link to interview on nuclear policy?
Would an interview with John McCone from 1986 be useful here as an external link? Focus of conversation is nuclear weapons policy. http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_26709F7BE6BB495088CE31FEFB715A39 (I have a conflict of interest; otherwise I would add it myself.) Mccallucc (talk) 20:09, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Typo in article header/description?
Hello, Wikipedians! I think there's a typo, at the top of page, in the title of the article. I am viewing the page on Chrome, iOS 10, and the first thing I see at the top is, "John A. McCone," with this description right below, "American businessman and sidrector of the CIA." Obviously I think "sidrector" is supposed to be director? Here's a screenshot just to show exactly what I'm talking about: typo screenshot. I was going to make an edit, but I don't have an account, and figured I'd leave it to someone with more expertise (since I couldn't even find that string of text in edit mode). Hopefully someone sees this and corrects it, assuming it is indeed a typo. Thanks! Oh, and sorry for incorrectly adding this to the talk page originally!

Inaccuracy
Recent edits posit that McCone was directly involved in the Kennedy assassination - historical record does not indicate that at this time. 2600:1017:B8C6:7BE1:4134:54A:6E1A:E57B (talk) 13:17, 25 November 2023 (UTC)