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Mr Smith presides over an operation comparable in size to the foreign office of a mid-sized country.
Its 1,500 employees work in departments like “Law Enforcement and National Security” or “Digital Diplomacy Group.”
It has outposts in 56 countries, sending regular cables to headquarters in Redmond, near Seattle.
Mr Smith is as itinerant as a foreign minister. In one year he visited 22 countries and met representatives of 40 governments.