[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 96 (Wednesday, June 11, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1193]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  IN HONOR OF NORMAN LONGFELLOW SMITH

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                           HON. FRANK R. WOLF

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 11, 2008

  Mr. WOLF. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the life of Norman 
Longfellow Smith, a dedicated and outstanding public servant from the 
10th Congressional District of Virginia. Mr. Smith passed away on May 
26 at his home in Middleburg.
  Mr. Smith, the former deputy chief of operations in the CIA's 
counterintelligence services, committed 27 tireless years to the Agency 
as an analyst, missile specialist, and counterintelligence officer. Mr. 
Smith also served in the United States Army and achieved the rank of 
colonel in his tenure along with a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.
  I am inserting, for the record, the obituary which appeared in The 
Washington Post on June 7. Mr. Smith was an exemplary public servant 
and a fine example of devotion and allegiance to his country and 
family.

               Norman Longfellow Smith, 83; CIA Official

                         (By Patricia Sullivan)

       Norman Longfellow Smith, 83, a former deputy chief of 
     operations in the CIA's counterintelligence service, died of 
     congestive heart failure and complications of Guillain-Barre 
     Syndrome on May 26 at his home in Middleburg.
       Mr. Smith, who joined the CIA in 1951, analyzed Soviet 
     armaments and, after the Soviets launched Sputnik, 
     specialized in ballistic missiles and space vehicles. In 
     1960, he chaired an intelligence community task force to 
     monitor missile activity outside the Soviet Union.
       Dino Brugioni, an imagery analyst with the CIA's National 
     Photographic Interpretation Center who worked with Mr. Smith, 
     described him as a defensive-missile specialist in the 
     agency's Office of Scientific Intelligence who focused on 
     surface-to-air missiles.
       Brugioni, who wrote ``Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story 
     of the Cuban Missile Crisis'' (1990), said others in the 
     interpretation center spotted surface-to-air missile sites in 
     spy satellite photographs taken over Cuba in fall 1962. The 
     short, pipe-smoking Mr. Smith was called in, and he began 
     writing daily reports, concluding that construction was 
     rushing forward and that some sites would be operational in 
     two weeks, Brugioni said.
       A short time later, when a U.S. U-2 spy plane was shot down 
     over Cuba and low-altitude spy flights came under fire, Mr. 
     Smith did the analysis about how and why it happened, 
     Brugioni said in an interview. Intercepted radio traffic was 
     in Russian, so it was clear that the Soviets were involved. 
     The information sparked what came to be known as the Cuban 
     missile crisis.
       Mr. Smith was reassigned in 1968 to the CIA's 
     counterintelligence staff. He rose to the top ranks of the 
     division, which handles clandestine operations overseas. He 
     held that job until the CIA was reorganized in 1975 and 1976, 
     in the wake of newspaper and Senate investigations over 
     revelations that the agency had assassinated foreign leaders 
     and conducted surveillance on thousands of American citizens 
     active in the antiwar movement.
       Mr. Smith then became executive director of a task force to 
     modernize and reform management procedures in the Directorate 
     of Operations, and he retired in 1978. He worked 10 more 
     years as a consultant for several defense contractors.
       Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he was drafted into the Army during 
     World War II and spent several years at Purdue University in 
     Indiana until he was sent to Europe with an infantry 
     division. He became an officer in the Army Reserve and 
     retired in 1980 as a colonel. Among his military awards were 
     a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.
       He graduated from Colgate University and in the 1950s 
     completed a doctoral degree at the London School of 
     Economics. He also attended the National University of 
     Mexico, Heidelberg University in Germany, New York University 
     and Georgetown University.
       He was past president of the International Order of the 
     Knights of the Round Table in Arlington and treasurer of the 
     Arts Club of Washington. He was a member of the Diplomatic 
     and Consular Officers, Retired, the Central Intelligence 
     Retirees' Association, the Association of Former Intelligence 
     Officers, the Fairfax Hunt Club and the Evergreen Country 
     Club.
       He was a Republican Party precinct chairman in Fairfax 
     County and a member of the Emmanuel and Trinity Episcopal 
     churches in Middleburg and Upperville.
       His marriage to Deana Browne Smith ended in divorce.
       Survivors include his wife of 22 years, Carolyn L. 
     Tillotson-Smith of Middleburg.

     

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