STATE TRIES A FAST ONE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67B00446R000600100049-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 2006
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: June 3, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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State Tries'
A Fast One
By ROBERT S. ALLEN
and PAUL SCOTT Mr. Allen
An amazing piece of legislation Unpublished charts prepared
is being seriously considered by a,. by Crockett-which some mem-
,,House Foreign Affairs Subcom- hers of _ the Foreign _ Affairs :five Hays and strongly banked;
Wayne Hays, D?O. illustrating the scope and I
Unknown to the public at range of the- far-reaching legis- 'Make it absolutely impossi?
large-as well as most mom- lation label the proposed new . ble for Congress or its duly
n service as "The constituted committees to make
forei
g
super
hers of Congress - this mea- sure has all the earmarks of (State) Department and Domes- any sort of ,independent inquiry; ?
being the biggest "sleeper" of tic 'y'ield Establishment" and into the personnel, administra-
'
live or other actions of the de-
President Johnson's wide-rang- the 'Overseas Field Establish-
ing legislative program. ment." ' 'partment.? Thousands of skilled,.
On the ground of establish- In the past State. Department knrnvledgeable, dedicated pub-
o
tic servants would el'
l
"
na'
one personnel system oessi
ly
for i authorities have emphatica
ing
the Department of State and to denied' the existence of an. es- lY sealed off from Congressional'
inqui,
'improve the -morale of its em- tablishment" In the department, ? Con n r and contact. to and all, obtain
ployees," this extraordinary bill No. 1 target of this little- Cgre ess could hope
,,would: known bill is Otto Otepka, State the future would be carefully.
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repor
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-Create a new super foreign Department security officer screened and aud
'service by blanketing in thou-whom 'Crockett has long been and stall dir homthe very,
ollcies
sands of civil service employes ( trying to oust for allegedly v- for the forivihe department's policies
me m-
the State Department, and lag information to a staff mm- actions.
thousands of other civil service her of a congressional commit,,,The bill virtually guarantees
employes on foreign duty of tee.
22 other government agencies The measure would strip that the Departmept of State
,'-among them the Peace Corps, Otcpka, and all other affected, will speak with one voice and,'-
U.S. Information Agency, Agen- civil service employes, of their: as a result, Congress will be
ey for International Develop-. present right , to discuss their' dealing with a duly constituted
ment (in charge of foreign aid), cases with members of Con.' 'mouthpiece'.'Export-Import Bank, Federal gross udder the provision: "The Principal hatcheting , provi-
Aviation Agency, Maritime right of persons employed ' in sions of the measure are Sec-
Commission. the civil service, either. individ-j tions 22 and 25._.
-Strip these civil service em- ually or collectively, to petition; The former empowers the
ployes of their veterans' prof- Congress, or.,?any member there-~ President ' to transfer fo tite
.erence, job security and other 1of, or to furnish . information, to new super foreign. service, with-,,
,safeguards under existing laws. either" House of Congress, or to in three years, all civil service
Under this measure, they could any committee or member, personnel of the State Depart-;
the arbitrarily fired within days thereof, shall not be denied or! ment, and the 22 other. govern-
On the charge of being incom- `interfered with." i meat agetcies. Those who balk
petent, inadequate or otherwise Foreign Affairs committee I are subjekat to immediate dis-
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