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- DIED. John A. McCone, 89, former director of the Central
- Intelligence Agency and ex-chairman of the Atomic Energy
- Commission; in Pebble Beach, Calif. In 1961 President Kennedy
- selected McCone as head of the CIA to succeed Allen Dulles
- after the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. McCone provided vital
- information to the President during the 1962 Cuban missile
- crisis.
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