General Walter Bedell "Beetle" Smith (5 October 1895 – 9 August 1961) was a senior officer of the United States Army who served as General Dwight D. Eisenhower's...
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Intelligence Agency – Library. Archived from the original on June 13, 2007. "Walter Smith". Central Intelligence Agency – Library. Archived from the original on...
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five days later. It was signed on September 3rd by Major-General Walter Bedell Smith for the Allies and Brigade-General Giuseppe Castellano for Italy...
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by General Giuseppe Castellano on behalf of Badoglio and General Walter Bedell Smith on behalf of Eisenhower (Supreme Allied commander for the Mediterranean...
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that Angleton earned the "trust of six CIA directors—including Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, Allen W. Dulles and Richard Helms. They kept Angleton in key positions...
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Director of Central Intelligence, Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith.[citation needed] Smith recruited Dulles into the CIA to oversee the agency's...
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Ambassador to the Soviet Union), and Ambassador to the Soviet Union Walter Bedell Smith. They agreed that it was "folly" to spend millions for foreign aid...
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Look up Bedell or bedell in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bedell may refer to: Arthur Bedell (fl.1572), English MP for Lichfield Berkley Bedell (1921–2019)...
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George S. Patton (redirect from George Smith Patton, Jr.)
Army Air Forces General Carl Spaatz shared the number one position, Walter Bedell Smith was ranked number three, and Patton number four. Eisenhower revealed...
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(64 Stat. A271). Leubsdorf (2024), p. 18; Straus (2024), p. 23. "Walter Bedell Smith (1895–1961)". Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State....
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what we are doing. If this works out, we'll forget Gen. Smith." General Walter Bedell Smith did not want the job of DCI and tried to beg off on health...
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notion of lending support to detractors and opponents of Árbenz. Walter Bedell Smith, the Director of Central Intelligence, ordered J. C. King, the chief...
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Eisenhower, 1942–1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library Papers of Thor Smith, Public Relations Division, SHAEF, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library...
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(1912–2003), South African politician Walter Smith (1948–2021), Scottish football player and manager Walter Bedell Smith (1895–1961), senior officer of the...
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and Italy, to stop fighting that was signed on 3 September 1943 by Walter Bedell Smith and Giuseppe Castellano. Moscow Armistice, signed by Finland and...
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and as the 15th Army Group commander. The American Major General Walter Bedell Smith was appointed as Eisenhower's Chief of Staff. The overall Naval Force...
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more focused on covert action. Director of Central Intelligence Walter Bedell Smith attempted to ameliorate the situation by appointing Allen Dulles...
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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1951. Other board members were Walter Bedell Smith, who would later become the CIA's first director and Tom Braden,...
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II, and again from October 1 to October 31, 1950, after General Walter Bedell Smith was appointed the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)...
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World War II. In the late 1950s, the company's vice-chairman was Walter Bedell Smith. He was formerly a US major general, Eisenhower's wartime chief-of-staff...
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6 in Sidney Lumet's 12 Angry Men (1957) and Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith in the Academy Award-winning film Patton (1970) starring George C...
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commander of the theater's logistical organization, and General Walter Bedell Smith became Eisenhower's chief of staff. His command involved important...
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African campaign when Montgomery bet Walter Bedell Smith that he could capture Sfax by the middle of April 1943. Smith jokingly replied that if Montgomery...
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Military Experience in World War I (1998), a standard history Kretchik, Walter E. U.S. Army Doctrine: From the American Revolution to the War on Terror...
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Indochina; he left Geneva on 3 May and was replaced by his deputy Walter Bedell Smith.: 555–58 The State of Vietnam refused to attend the negotiations...
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wrote: "It is planned to assign you without regard to color or race". Walter Bedell Smith disagreed with Lee's plan, writing to Eisenhower: Two years ago I...
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Out (1962) as Col. Calderwood The Longest Day (1962) as Maj. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith The Damned (1963) as Bernard In the Cool of the Day (1963) as Frederick...
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John Scott Redd Kermit Roosevelt Jr. Frank Rowlett Wendy Sherman Walter Bedell Smith William O. Studeman William H. Webster John T. Hughes Awards and...
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closed-door session with acting United States Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Arthur W. Radford on the...
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by Richard Marsh Alan Ackerman Beetle (1913–2003), U.S. botanist Walter Bedell Smith (1895–1961), U.S. Army general nicknamed "Beetle" Beetle, Kentucky...
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