Haviland Smith is a retired

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who worked in

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, and

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, primarily on issues related to the

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. He also served as chief of the counterrorism staff and as executive assistant to the

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. He is a graduate of Exeter,

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. He served in the

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before joining the CIA.

USS ''Liberty'' incident

Smith was stationed in Beirut, Lebanon during the 1967

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. After the

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attacked the USS ''Liberty'', U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dwight J. Porter revealed that he had listened to radio transcripts that showed the Israelis knew they were attacking an American ship. Smith said that although he never saw the transcripts, he had “heard on a number of occasions exactly the story that you just told me about what that transcript contained. was later toldthat ultimately all of the transcripts were deep-sixed. I was told that they were deep-sixed because the administration did not wish to embarrass the Israelis.”

Special techniques

He was the creator of espionage techniques used by the CIA during the Cold War in the Soviet Union and East Europe, including the brush contact and the creation and manipulation of the "gap".

Post CIA career

Since his retirement, he has contributed Op-eds to local New England papers as well as ''

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''. He has also written regularly for ''

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'' and ''American Diplomacy'' and has lectured around the Eastern U.S. on Russia, the Soviet Union, the Middle East, Terrorism and the intelligence process.

References

Sources

Ex-CIA Officer Will Visit DCC to Give Lecture on Middle East
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Mini Biography
on the ''American Diplomacy'' website. * https://books.google.com/books?id=2_kmzYET9VkC&dq=%22Haviland+Smith%22&pg=PA422 * https://web.archive.org/web/20110928075944/http://www.exeter.edu/documents/Exeter_Bulletin/SP10_Profile_Smith.pdf * http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=about.viewcontributors&bioid=236 *http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/283698-1 *https://web.archive.org/web/20100708030840/http://bakerinstitute.org/events/challenges-for-clandestine-intelligence-collection-in-support-of-u.s.-middle-east-policy *http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/283698-1 {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Haviland People of the Central Intelligence Agency Dartmouth College alumni Alumni of the University of London People from Williston, Vermont Living people Year of birth missing (living people)