Mr. I.C. Smith
Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation (retired)
I.C. Smith was born in Memphis, Tennessee and grew up in rural north Louisiana. He served in the U.S. Navy and worked as a police officer before joining the FBI in 1973. Over the next quarter century, he saw assignments in St. Louis, MO; Washington, DC (twice); Miami, FL; and Little Rock, AR. Mr. Smith retired in 1998. He also served as the Legal Attaché in Canberra, Australia with responsibility for the independent nations of the South Pacific. He once was posted to the State Department as Chief of Investigations, Counterintelligence Programs, Diplomatic Security, Department of State. In this capacity he traveled to the (then) Soviet Union as well as to China.
In November 2004, Smith published INSIDE: A Top G Man Exposes Spies, Lies and Bureaucratic Bungling Inside the FBI, resulting in appearances on C-SPAN's Washington Journal and Book-TV. He currently is involved with research for two more books, one involving a national security matter, the other a civil rights incident in Monroe, LA from the 1960s. He frequently is called upon to comment on national security issues and has been quoted in such magazines as US News & World Report, Newsweek, and The New Yorker; newspapers such as The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, and The New York Times; and he has appeared on CBS Evening News, ABC News, the Public Broadcasting System, and others.
Since retirement, he has lectured at the Smithsonian Institution, at events hosted by the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, and at various agencies in the U.S. intelligence community, including lectures about China at the Raleigh Spy Conference, the Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy, the National Counterintelligence Executive and Mercyhurst College.
He graduated from the University of Louisiana, Monroe with a liberal arts degree.