Employment
Upon graduating Smith found employment for a short time as a trainee assistant electronic engineer at a small engineering company.
April 1972 he joined Rediffusion in Chessington as a Junior Engineer.
July 1976, Smith started work as a test engineer in the Quality Assurance department of Thorn EMI Defence Electronics at Feltham, Middlesex. As a part of his role Smith had security clearance to allow him access to material classified up to SECRET.
From 1985 to 31 July 1992 (when he was made redundant) he was employed as a Quality Audit Manager at the GEC Hirst Research Center, Wembley. The Hirst Research Centre was the central research laboratory of General Electric Company plc, which undertook a wide range of Ministry of Defence (MoD) and commercial projects.
Hirst was classed since at least 1977 as a ‘prohibited place’ within Section 3(b) of the Official Secrets Act 1911 because it received and held classified material for the purpose of fulfilling MoD contracts. These contracts cover a range of military equipment including the Rapier missile.
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