LETTER TO GENERAL WALTER BEDELL SMITH FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R003700060060-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2003
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: September 22, 1960
• Content Type: LETTER

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G* ersl Walte
Dear Beetle:
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I realise how heavy your schedule must be,
but I should be delighted. you weld find it pesaible
to Come and have lunch with us hers at your coavesiene.
With warmest per sone-l rag" -do,
Faid%fully yours,
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Director
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GEN. SMITH
WASHINGTON (AP)-GEN. WALTER FEDELL SMITHS PRESIDENT EIS ENHO ER'
CHIEF OF STAFF IN EUROPE IN JORLD WAR III WAS DISCHARGED FROM AL1
REED HOSPITAL TODAY AFTER NEARLY A YEAR AS A PATIENT.
THE 65-YEAR-OLD SOLDIER DIPLOMAT ENTERED THE HOSPITAL OCT. 131
FOR TREATMENT OF PNEUMONIA AND A LUNG ABSCESS. HE WAS CARRIED ON
CRITICALLY ILL LIST FOR MONTHS, AND UNDERWENT MINOR SURGERY
TWICE FOR RELIEF OF THE ABSCESS.
UPON HIS DISCHARGE TODAY ARMY PHYSICIANS DESCRIBED HIS CONDITI
"VERY FINE." THE GENERAL HI MIS ELF SAID HE IS GOING BACK TO WORD.
IS RETIRED FROM THE ARMY.
AFTER HIS WARTIME SERVICE, SMITH SERVED AS DIRECTOR OF THE CENT'['
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY9 UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE, AND AMBASSADOR TO
RUSSIA. LATER9 HE BECAME AN EXECUTIVE WITH THE AMERICAN ?ACHINE &
FOUNDRY CO.
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