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    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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    II. It was made public five days later. Signed by Major-General Walter Bedell Smith for the Allies and Brigade-General Giuseppe Castellano for Italy...
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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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    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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  • 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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    named a new Director of Central Intelligence, Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith. Smith recruited Dulles into the CIA to oversee the agency's covert operations...
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    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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    (1912–2003), South African politician Walter Smith (1948–2021), Scottish football player and manager Walter Bedell Smith (1895–1961), senior officer of the United...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    John Scott Redd Kermit Roosevelt Jr. Frank Rowlett Wendy Sherman Walter Bedell Smith William O. Studeman William H. Webster Awards and decorations of...
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    Audie Murphy Marshall Thompson Charles Drake Narrated by General Walter Bedell Smith Cinematography Maury Gertsman Edited by Edward Curtiss Music by Irving...
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    Indochina; he left Geneva on 3 May and was replaced by his deputy Walter Bedell Smith.: 555–8  The State of Vietnam refused to attend the negotiations...
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    Returns Mike Fouche Post-series film War and Remembrance Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith Miniseries based on the novel of the same name 1989 Paradise Guest...
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    then head of Unilever, Paul Rijkens. Bernhard in turn contacted Walter Bedell Smith, the then head of the CIA, who asked Eisenhower adviser Charles Douglas...
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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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    the Central Intelligence Agency under the direction of general Walter Bedell Smith initiated a series of interrogation projects involving human subjects...
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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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    Bernhard contacted Walter Bedell Smith, director of the CIA and old war friend to help him get things started in the US. Bedell Smith was happy to help...
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    September 3, 1943, Castellano, in lieu of Badoglio, and General Walter Bedell Smith, in place of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, signed the armistice agreement...
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