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NCIS topic for BYU career lecture Nov. 4

“Inside the ‘Real’ NCIS” will be the topic of a Career Lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 4 at 3 p.m. in the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies conference room, 238 Herald R. Clark Building, at Brigham Young University.

R. Daniel Smith, a career Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent, is the supervisory special agent for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service Resident Agency in Lemoore, Calif.. where he supervises general criminal investigations and operations involving U.S. Naval assets in Northern California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Wyoming.

A BYU alumnus, Smith coordinated counter-terrorism protection and investigations with his counterparts in Germany, Slovenia, and Northern Italy. Prior to that, he had assignments in Chinhae, Republic of Korea, working in foreign counterintelligence and in Washington, D.C., conducting white-collar fraud investigations.

This lecture will be archived online. For more information, contact Lee Simons at (801) 422-2652 or lee_simons@byu.edu. For a full schedule of David M. Kennedy Center Events, visit kennedy.byu.edu.

Writer: Brady Toone

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Photo by Mark A. Philbrick/BYU Photo

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