Smith, Bromley K. (Bromley Keables), 1911-1987

Bromley K. Smith, a consultant to the National Security Council, died Sunday of a heart attack at his home in Washington. He was 75 years old.

Mr. Smith joined the State Department in 1940 as a Foreign Service officer. He was vice consul in Montreal and third secretary of the Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia. He returned to Washington in 1945, carrying out staff assignments in the Secretary of State's office and taking part in international conferences after World War II.

In 1953, President Eisenhower appointed Mr. Smith to the National Security Council staff. He became the council's executive secretary in the Kennedy Administration and continued in that position under President Johnson. After his retirement in 1980, he became a consultant.

In 1964, he received the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service, the highest honor given to a career employee.
Mr. Smith was born in Muscatine, Iowa. He was a graduate of Stanford University and attended the Zimmern Institute School in Geneva and the Sorbonne in Paris.

He is survived by his wife, the architect Cloethiel Woodard Smith; a daughter, Susanne S. Arias, of Madrid; a son, Bromley K. Jr., of Washington; two sisters, Jean Burton, of Wheaton, Ill., and Elaine Williams, of Glenview, Ill., and a grandchild.