page_title: John Chabot Smith
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: John Chabot Smith / Career
caption_attribution_description: Elizabeth Bentley, American former spy for the Soviet Union.
context_page_description: John Chabot Smith was an American journalist and author, best known for Alger Hiss: The True Story, an account sympathetic to Hiss.
context_section_description: Smith began his career as a journalist with the Washington Post.  He joined the New York Herald Tribune as White House correspondent.
  Smith covered World War II overseas for the Herald-Trib.  Leon Dennen called him a "pro-Tito correspondent."
  Smith covered Elizabeth Bentley.
  Smith covered the Hiss Case for the Herald Trib and later wrote a book about it, and about Hiss’s life in general.  Three other journalists who covered the case also published books about it:  Bert Andrews of Hearst, Ralph de Toledano of Newsweek, and Alistair Cooke of the Manchester Guardian.
  Hiss appeared with Smith at a press conference to promote the book, held at the Overseas Press Club.
caption: Elizabeth Bentley (1948), ex-Soviet spy whom Smith covered
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