JOSEPH BURKEHOLDER SMITH
He was born during nineteen twenty-one and earned multiple degrees at Harvard before enlisting amongst WWII in the US Army. Joseph sought employment with the CIA's Western Hemisphere division and was serving amidst nineteen fifty-one at the Pentagon. He undertook this role using military cover in the position of research analyst for Korean economics and politics. Smith joined the United States Information Service amid the later nineteen fifties to perform Far East Division clandestine projects that dealt with media operations and required contact with British intelligence.

Joseph also served at Agency headquarters modifying its psychological warfare training curriculum for some Covert Action Staff members operating in Latin America and Vietnam. Amid the nineteen sixty one Bay of Pigs debacle, Smith was Chief of the Covert Action Staff’s Propaganda Guidance Section and directing notable CIA officer David Atlee Phillips. As the decade passed he was advising case officers across the Agency requiring technical instruction for operations. During nineteen sixty-six Joseph was transferred to the Office of Technical Regulation (OTR) and was a member of the survey group assessing the effectiveness of CIA programs. Smith developed extensive political contacts in his tenure at Agency headquarters and for his expansive training improvements he subsequently became Chief of the Operations School. He retired during the nineteen seventies and later advocated for less internal secrecy within intelligence groups.

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