SECURITY VIOLATION PROBED CIA SUSPENDS KEY OFFICIAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200360006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 5, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Security Violation Probed
Prom ur rre services.
CIA spokesman said Thurs-
jewelry theft. No charges have
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-The
day that the agency has sent a
been filed.
Central Intelligence. Agency has
letter to Tofte relieving him of
Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy
,suspended Hans V. Tofte. from
his normal duties while
h
k
his normal duties. and telling
him t
t i
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(D., Minn.) asked the Senate:
c
ec
s
o repor
ns
ea
to the
Foreign Relations Committee
are made on whether he com-
agency's security chief, Howard
staff 'to follow this up and see'.'
mitted a security violation, ,the
Osborn, until the conclusion of
what happens:" McCarthy is a
CIA said Thursday.
the investigation.
frequent critic of CIA opera-
The Investigation concerns an
The agency would not define
tions...
incident late last month in
what Tofte normally does but
Tofte has charged . that bis
which a fellow CIA employee
he is generally said to be an
home was entered in what he
allegedly found secret material
at T
ft
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h
expert In clandestine opera-
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called a "silly cloak and dagger
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ome, in violation of
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tions.I
e will stay on the. pay-
raid" by two other CIA agents,
CIA regulations. ,
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roll at his regular salary : of
Kenneth R. Slocum, and Charles
Tofte's .wife, in addition,
, re-
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nearly $25,000 until an, investi-
.
D. Speake, on July 24.
ported .to:.
Washington., police
gation is completed, the agency
The CIA: said, the ,??two. agents
'after two, CIA men came to
Said,".
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recovered some claasified-doeu-
their .-home - that'-some "''$18,000
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