The CIA’s first general counsel concluded that Congress did not mean by these words to authorize covert action—a view shared by Walter Bedell Smith, the agency’s second director, who worried ...

Wilhelm Oxinius, jumped up with him. Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, who signed for Anglo-American forces as SHAEF chief of staff, asked Jodl to meet him at 10 a.m. Monday morning to arrange for ...

Walter Bedell Smith, whom Mr. Eisenhower has nominated to be Undersecretary of State. The move will put into the hands of two brothers chief responsibility for direction of both major aspects ...

One chill day in Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith decided he wanted to go fishing. He drove his car out to the Moscow Sea (an artificial lake near the capital) without notifying his MVD ...

Have all the Communists been rooted out of the Government? No, said General Walter Bedell Smith this week. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency, Smith should know. He made his statement ...

Acting Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith presided at the formal swearing-in ceremonies. It was the first time all members of an American delegation to the UN have gathered for the ceremony at ...

Highest praise of the late American General Walter Bedell Smith, who died in Washington this weekend, was voiced here today by Minister of Education Abba Eban. The latter knew Gen. Smith ...

Wilhelm Oxenius and Gen. Adm. Hans-Georg von Friedeburg. Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, Eisenhower’s chief of staff at Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), received the ...