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- Walter_Bedell_Smith abstract "Walter Bedell "Beetle" Smith (5 October 1895 – 9 August 1961) was a senior U.S. Army general who served as General Dwight D. Eisenhower's chief- of-staff at Allied Forces Headquarters during the Tunisia Campaign and the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943. Beginning in the next year, he was General Eisenhower's chief-of-staff at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) in Western Europe from 1944 through 1945.Smith enlisted as a private in the Indiana National Guard in 1911. During World War I he was commissioned as an officer in 1917, and he was wounded in the Aisne-Marne Offensive in 1918. After World War I, he was a staff officer and an instructor at the U.S. Army Infantry School. In 1941, he became the Secretary of the General Staff. Then in 1942 he became the Secretary to the Combined Chiefs of Staff. His duties involved taking part in discussions of war plans at the highest level, and Smith often briefed President Franklin D. Roosevelt on strategic matters.[citation needed]Smith became chief of staff to Eisenhower at Allied Forces Headquarters (AFHQ) in September 1942. He acquired a reputation as Eisenhower's "hatchet man" for his brusque and demanding manner. However, he was also capable of representing Eisenhower in sensitive missions requiring diplomatic skill. Smith was involved in negotiating the Armistice between Italy and Allied armed forces, which he signed on behalf of Eisenhower. In 1944, he became the Chief of Staff of SHAEF, again under Eisenhower. In this position, Smith also negotiated successfully for food and fuel aid to be sent through German lines for the starving and cold Dutch civilian population, and he opened discussions for the peaceful and complete German capitulation to the Canadian Army in the Netherlands. In May 1945, Smith met representatives of the German High Command in Reims, France, to conduct the surrender of the German Armed Forces, and he signed the German Instrument of Surrender on behalf of General Eisenhower.After World War II, he served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1948. Then in 1950, Smith became the Director of Central Intelligence, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other intelligence agencies in the U.S. Smith reorganized the CIA, redefined its structure and its mission, and he gave it a new sense of purpose. He made the CIA the arm of government primarily responsible for covert operations. He left the CIA in 1953 to become the Under Secretary of State. After retiring as the Under Secretary of State in 1954, Smith continued to serve the Eisenhower Administration in various posts for several years, until his retirement and his death in 1961.[citation needed]".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith activeYearsEndDate "1948-12-25".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith activeYearsEndDate "1953-02-09".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith activeYearsEndDate "1954-10-01".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith activeYearsStartDate "1946-04-03".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith activeYearsStartDate "1950-10-07".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith activeYearsStartDate "1953-02-09".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith award Bronze_Star_Medal.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith award Distinguished_Service_Medal_(U.S._Army).
- Walter_Bedell_Smith award Distinguished_Service_Medal_(US_Navy).
- Walter_Bedell_Smith award Legion_of_Merit.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith award National_Security_Medal.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith battle Allied_advance_from_Paris_to_the_Rhine.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith battle Allied_invasion_of_Italy.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith battle Allied_invasion_of_Sicily.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith battle Battle_of_the_Bulge.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith battle Operation_Overlord.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith battle Operation_Torch.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith battle Second_Battle_of_the_Marne.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith battle Tunisia_Campaign.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith battle Western_Allied_invasion_of_Germany.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith battle World_War_I.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith battle World_War_II.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith birthDate "1895-10-05".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith birthYear "1895".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith country Soviet_Union.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith deathDate "1961-08-09".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith deathYear "1961".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith militaryBranch United_States_Army.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith militaryCommand "U.S. First Army".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith militaryRank General_(United_States).
- Walter_Bedell_Smith president Dwight_D._Eisenhower.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith president Harry_S._Truman.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith religion Catholic_Church.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith serviceEndYear "1953".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith serviceStartYear "1911".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith successor Alan_Goodrich_Kirk.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith successor Allen_Dulles.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith successor Herbert_Hoover,_Jr..
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- Walter_Bedell_Smith after Alan_Goodrich_Kirk.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith after Allen_Dulles.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith after Herbert_Hoover,_Jr..
- Walter_Bedell_Smith after Roscoe_B._Woodruff.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith alt "Three quarter length portrait of seated man in uniform. He is bare headed and wearing his medal ribbons. He is wearing the SHAEF shoulder sleeve insignia.".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith ambassadorFrom "United States".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith awards Bronze_Star_Medal.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith awards Distinguished_Service_Medal_(U.S._Army).
- Walter_Bedell_Smith awards Distinguished_Service_Medal_(US_Navy).
- Walter_Bedell_Smith awards Legion_of_Merit.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith awards National_Security_Medal.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith battles Allied_advance_from_Paris_to_the_Rhine.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith battles Allied_invasion_of_Italy.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith battles Allied_invasion_of_Sicily.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith battles Battle_of_the_Bulge.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith battles Operation_Overlord.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith battles Operation_Torch.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith battles Second_Battle_of_the_Marne.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith battles Tunisia_Campaign.
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- Walter_Bedell_Smith battles World_War_I.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith battles World_War_II.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith before David_K._E._Bruce.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith before Roscoe_B._Woodruff.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith before Roscoe_H._Hillenkoetter.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith before W._Averell_Harriman.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith birthDate "1895-10-05".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith birthPlace "Indianapolis, Indiana".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith branch "25".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith commands First_Army_(United_States).
- Walter_Bedell_Smith country "Soviet Union".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith dateOfBirth "1895-10-05".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith dateOfDeath "1961-08-09".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith deathDate "1961-08-09".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith deathPlace "Washington, D.C.".
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- Walter_Bedell_Smith name "Smith, Walter Bedell".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith name "Walter Bedell Smith".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith nickname "Beetle".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith number "1".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith number "2".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith number "3".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith number "7".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith placeOfBirth "Indianapolis, Indiana".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith placeOfDeath "Washington, D.C.".
- Walter_Bedell_Smith predecessor David_K._E._Bruce.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith predecessor Roscoe_H._Hillenkoetter.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith predecessor W._Averell_Harriman.
- Walter_Bedell_Smith president Dwight_D._Eisenhower.