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Title: R. Harris Smith papers
Dates: 1934-1995
Collection Number: 78019
Creator: Smith, R. Harris (Richard Harris), 1946-
Collection Size:
13 manuscript boxes
(5.4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence and writings, relating to operations of the United States Office of Strategic Services during World War II,
and to Allen Dulles and postwar operations of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Includes research material for
the book by R. H. Smith, entitled OSS : The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency (Berkeley, 1972);
and a draft biography of Allen Dulles, entitled "Spy-Master's Odyssey: The Secret Service of Allen Dulles."
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages: In
English
Collection is open for research.
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copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
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[Identification of item], R. Harris Smith papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1978.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
American historian.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence and writings, relating to operations of the United States Office of Strategic Services during World War II,
and to Allen Dulles and postwar operations of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Includes research material for
the book by R. H. Smith, entitled OSS : The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency (Berkeley, 1972);
and a draft biography of Allen Dulles, entitled "Spy-Master's Odyssey: The Secret Service of Allen Dulles."
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Dulles, Allen Welsh, 1893-1969.
United States. Office of Strategic Services.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Secret service--United States.
World War, 1939-1945--Secret service.