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{{Infobox person
{{Infobox person
| name=Howard Drummond "Dan" Smoot<br>
| name=Howard Drummond "Dan" Smoot<br>
(Publisher of anti-communist newsletter, 1957-1971<br>Conservative political journalist and activist)
(Former FBI agent and publisher of anti-communist<br> newsletter, 1957-1971;<br>Conservative political journalist and activist)
| birth_date=October 5, 2013
| birth_date=October 5, 2013
'''Howard Drummond Smoot''', known as '''Dan Smoot''' (October 5, 1913 – July 21, 2003), was a [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] agent and a [[conservative]] political [[activism|activist]]. From 1957 to 1971, he published ''The Dan Smoot Report.'' a newsletter which chronicled alleged [[communism|communist]] infiltration in various sectors of [[United States|American]] government and society.
'''Howard Drummond Smoot''', known as '''Dan Smoot''' (October 5, 1913 – July 21, 2003), was a [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] agent and a [[conservative]] political [[activism|activist]]. From 1957 to 1971, he published ''The Dan Smoot Report.'' a newsletter which chronicled alleged [[communism|communist]] infiltration in various sectors of [[United States|American]] government and society.
==Background==
==Background==
Smoot was born into poverty in a log cabin in East Prairie in Mississippi County in southeastern [[Missouri]], to William Bernard "Bernie" Smoot (died 1924), a sharecropper, and the former Dora E. Allbright (born 1892).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=Bernie+W._Smoot&event=_east+prairie-mississippi-missouri-usa_49370|title=William Bernard "Bernie" Smoot|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=August 24, 2019}}</ref> As a six-year-old, Dan picked and hoed [[cotton]] and cultivated [[corn]] with a one-mule plow at the age of eight. He had a sister, Virginia Ruth, and a brother, Jewell Martin Smoot (1911-2003), who predeceased his brother by only ten days.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?viewrecord=1&r=an&db=FindAGraveUS&indiv=try&h=23442108|title=Jewell Smoot|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=August 24, 2019}}</ref> Despite the lack of material resources, Bernie Smoot taught young Dan how to read the classics.
Smoot was born into poverty in a log cabin in East Prairie in Mississippi County in southeastern [[Missouri]], to William Bernard "Bernie" Smoot (died 1924), a sharecropper, and the former Dora E. Allbright (born 1892).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=Bernie+W._Smoot&event=_east+prairie-mississippi-missouri-usa_49370|title=William Bernard "Bernie" Smoot|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=August 24, 2019}}</ref> As a six-year-old, Dan picked and hoed [[cotton]] and cultivated [[corn]] with a one-mule plow at the age of eight. He had a sister, Virginia Ruth, and a brother, Jewell Martin Smoot (1911-2003), who predeceased his brother by only ten days.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?viewrecord=1&r=an&db=FindAGraveUS&indiv=try&h=23442108|title=Jewell Smoot|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=August 24, 2019}}</ref> Despite the lack of material resources, Bernie Smoot taught young Dan how to read the classics.