INTELLIGENCE SERVICE CAREER HELPS UNRAVEL OSWALD RIDDLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600160036-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: April 16, 1954
• Content Type: NSPR

PALO ALTOI TEApproved FR Rel 1 6 1964 CIA-
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Intelligence service career
helps unravel- Oswald riddle.
Edward Ellis' Smith, - former
Army, State Department and
,Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) security-intelligence offi-
cer, believes accused assassin
Lee Harvey Oswald was - a
trained Soviet agent, although
not acting on orders when he
shpt President John F, Ken-
nedy.
Ih the third of a series of ex-
clusive articles in today's
times, Smith attempts to un-
eavelthe unprecedented circum-
itances surrounding. Oswald's
marriage to a Russian girl and
their hastily arranged exit from
the Soviet Union.
Smith, 42, of 1849 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 dec-
orated three times with the
Bronze Star for valor in com
bat in the European theater.
After a stint with Supreme
Allied Headquarters after the
sistant military attache and as-
sistant economic attache.
SECURITY OFFICER
In 1950, Smith returned home
and was placed 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 tp Moscow.,as the State
sian section in G2. He studied
Russian at the naval Intelli-
gence Language School, and in
1948 was posted at the Ameri-
can Embassy, Moscow, as as-
t
war, Smith was returned to the
Pentagon and assigned as chief
of the political - economic Rus-
OSWALD'S WIFE
Mrs. Marina Oswald
Department's first full-time se-
curity officer at the American
Embassy.
In -1956, after resigning from
the State Department, he joined
the CIA as a specialist in Rus-
sian affairs. He quit in 1962 toy
embark on a new career as in
dependent writer and lecturer.:,;
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