EXPERT ON SOVIETS CONVINCED OSWALD WAS AGENT FOR REDS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400310008-2
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 14, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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I:ri?.rard Ellis Smith, former
Amy State Department, and
c ^.ntral Intelligence A g e n c y
(Cl,A security-intelligence offi-
cer, believes accused assassin
;.ce I: a r v e y Oswald was a
,t.rainer Soviet agent, although
not string on orders when he
shot President John F. Kennedy.
In the second of a 'series of
exclusive articles in today's
'l'imes, Smith probes Oswald's
.unusual visit to Russia, and con-
cl e,cs Oswald underwent train-
ing aster lengthy interrogation.
Smith. 42, of 1519 Webster St.,
'Palo Alto, was graduated Phi
Beta Kappa from the Univer-
sity of West Virginia in 1939
with a degree in political sci-
ence. In World War IT, he was
decorated three times with the
bronze star for valor in combat.
Aftcr a stint with Supreme
Al',ird Headquarters after the
Russian at the Naval Intelli-
CPYRGHT.
jwar, Smith was returned to the
Pentagon and assigned. as chief
of the political-economic Rus-
sian section in G2. He studied
gence Language School, and in
1948 was posted at the Ameri-
can Embassy, Moscow, as as-
sistant military attache and as-
sistant economic atrache.
In 1950, Smith returned home
and was p l a c e d on detached
service with an intelligence unit
in the Pentagon. In 1953, as a
major, he resigned from the
Army, and joined the State De-
partment as a foreign service
staff officer. In 1954, he went
back to Moscow as the State
Department's f i r s t full-time
security officer at the Ameri-
can Embassy.
In 1956, after resigning from
the State Department, he joined
the CIA as a specialist in Rus-
sian affairs. He quit in 1962 to
embark on a new career as in-
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