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Howard Kingsbury SMITH: American. A student at Oxford in the 1930s, SMITH became...

Catalogue reference: KV 2/3872

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This record is about the Howard Kingsbury SMITH: American. A student at Oxford in the 1930s, SMITH became... dating from 1956 Sep 03 - 1957 Jul 16 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
KV 2/3872
Date
1956 Sep 03 - 1957 Jul 16
Description

Howard Kingsbury SMITH: American. A student at Oxford in the 1930s, SMITH became a journalist and in the 1950s was the European representative of the Columbia Broadcasting System based in London. Suggestions that SMITH may have had links to Soviet Intelligence in the 1940s were never substantiated and were later discounted

Note
With photographs
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
PF 149675 VOL 3
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Access conditions
Retained Until 2014
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
Conflict
Operations, battles and campaigns
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14540347/

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KV 2

The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files

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