Today in History revisits the Friday, October 27, 1972 edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story on federal agents and the CIA investigating a "grain spy" known as "Mr. Smith", who leaked details of the massive, $1 billion U.S.-Soviet wheat deal to Milling & Baking News . The tips proved accurate, raising concerns that the U.S. Agriculture Department had withheld information, costing U.S. farmers money.

WASHINGTON (AP story as publilshed by the Grand Forks Herald on Oct. 27, 1972) — Federal agents are looking into the case of the mysterious “Mr. Smith” who tried to leak de- tails of the U.S.-Soviet wheat deal to a trade magazine before the size of the sale became public.

His long-distance tips—from London to Kansas City—went to Mr. Morton Sosland, editor of Milling & Bak

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