- He is referred to, by name, in Winston Churchill's V-E Day speech, 8 May 1945.
- Documentaries usually give the pronunciation of his name as "Be-DELL". More informed sources appear to favour the pronunciation "BEE-dle".
- U.S. Army general during World War II.
- U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union (1946-1949).
- Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (1950-1953).
- Smith and his wife are buried together in a common grave in Arlington National Cemetery.
- Despite being promoted to a full 4 star General in the United States Army at the end of the Second World War itself, Smith, like his superior Eisenhower, never saw combat in his entire career.
- When outgoing Chief of Army Staff General George C. Marshall asked for an assessment of Allied officers who served in the European Theatre of Operations in World War 2, Eisenhower rated Smith alongside Air Force General Carl Spaatz as the second best of the lot, quoting it was the meticulous planning of 12th Army Group commander General Omar Bradley(who topped the assessment) and Smith which proved pivotal to Allied victory over Germany. Ironically, Smith was never involved in any kind of strategic decision making whatsoever, his job being merely reporting the discussions and maintaining notes and records of field commanders to Eisenhower and Marshall of the Air Force Arthur Tedder.
- Was mockingly referred to as "Eisenhower's Bormann", a pun on Adolf Hitler's secretary in the Nazi party Martin Bormann. Smith, like Bormann, had unlimited access to Eisenhower's communications and maintained and allegedly also manipulated flow of information to Eisenhower to elevate his own stature. It's also said it was his undying loyalty to the supreme allied commander which got him promoted to the designation of the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency post World War 2.
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