Smith, Joseph Burkholder. Portrait of a Cold Warrior: Second Thoughts of a
Top CIA Agent. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. First published in 1976 by
G.P. Putnam's Sons. 441 pages.
With a career that spanned from 1951 to 1973, Smith served in both the
CIA's Far East and Western Hemisphere (Latin America) Divisions. He was
assigned to the Far East Division as a Psychological Warfare/Propaganda
Expert, and in 1954 was posted to the Singapore station as propaganda chief.
In 1956 he served as Malaya desk chief, in 1958 in the Philippines as
political action chief, in 1960 as chief of the Propaganda Guidance Section
at CIA headquarters, in 1961 on the Venezuelan desk, and then was sent to
Argentina to work on a joint propaganda project with the Argentine security
agency (SIDE) for four years. In 1967 he served in the Office of Training at
CIA headquarters as a propaganda and political action instructor, and in
1969 was assigned to Mexico to help sanitize operations exposed by Philip
Agee's book "Inside the Company." Ironically, Agee never mentioned Smith in
his book, despite the fact that they had worked together in Latin America.
-- Wendell Minnick
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