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• Publication Date: June 1, 1967
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j `512 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE June 1, 1967
Mr. Otepka obtained positive information
regarding the identity of the persons actual-
ly involved in the "mutilations" and, in the
event the charges are maintained in their
present form, he will be able to expose the
persons at the hearings. In this event, the
Department of Justice will have no choice
but to bring criminal proceedings against the
persons so expost. In turn, these persons
have already indicated they will reveal the
identities of the "top persons" in the Depart-
ment of State who had instructed them to
"mutilate" the documents and to "plant
them" in Mr. Otepka's burn bags in such a
way as to make it appear that Mr. Otepka
had carried out the mutilations.
Another reason for Mr. Katzenbach's sup-
port for Mr. Jaffe's recommendation, The
Exchange was informed, is the consideration
that "selected out" Foreign Service Officer
Stephen A. Koczak, has charged three of his
former superiors not only with "mutilating"
but with actually "destroying" original pages
of his 1061 efficiency report forging substitute
pages and inserting these into his record as
if they had been in the original. Mr. Koczak
has repeatedly asked the Department of State
to prepare a chronology of these events and
to hold a hearing on the results. Up to the
present, the Department has evaded answer-
ing Mr. Koczak's request and has omitted
discussing this issue of the "destruction of
the original pages" in its correspondence with
Senators. Mr. Katzenbach is reported to feel
that in the event the "mutilation of docu-
ments" charges are pressed against Mr.
Otepka, such a strong precedent would have
been created that the State Department
could no longer deny a hearing to Mr. Koczak
on the similar charge Mr. Koczak raised re-
garding the "destruction" by Foreign Serv-
ice Officers of the original pages of his 1961
efficiency report. By dropping the "mutila-
tion of documents" charges now against Mr.
Otepka, Mr. Katzenbach is reported to feel
the State Department can continue to
prolong delaying answering Mr. Koczak's
charges.
The Exchange's informant stated further
that Secretary of State Dean Rusk appears to
have been impressed by Mr. Katzenbach's
and Mr. Jaffe's views and that there is a
very good prospect that the "mutilation of
documents" charges will be dropped when
the Otepka hearings are opened.
Besides embarrassment to the State De-
partment, the Otepka case is now also-be-
coming an embarrassment to the Civil Serv-
ice Commission, The Exchange learned from
a State Department source close both to
Jules Bassin and to Robert T. Hennemeyer,
:Sr. Bassin's successor, in the Office of Func-
tional Personnel Programs, which supervises
all civil service employees at the State De-
partment. Mr. Bassin, previously in charge of
V.r. Otepka's personal files, was named by
2.1r. Koczak as one of three Foreign Service
Officers who "manipulated" his own efficiency
record before sending it to the 1964 Selection
Board which recommended Mr. Koczak's
"firing" by "selection out" without a hearing
and without confrontation.
According to this source close to Mr.
Hennenheyer, one of the main problems for
the Civil Service Commission is that Mr.
Otepka, a Civil Service Classified Employee,
GS-15, ,has not had a performance rating for
six years, beginning with 1962 when For-
eign Service Officer Class One, William Bos-
well, refused to write Mr. Otepka's per-
formance rating unless William J. Crockett,
then the Deputy Under Secretary of State for
Administration issued a direct, explicit order
in writing that he do so. Mr. Crockett did
not a d the Civil Service Commission since
then has taken no action against the State
Department's violation of the civil service
regulations on the grounds that both Mr.
Crockett and Mr. Boswell were Foreign Serv-
ice Officers and therefore not subject to the
jurisdiction of the Civil Service Commission.
r. 01t epka's current nominal supervisor is
SO-Marvin Gentile, formerly with the
CIA; his actual "supervisor" is domestic For-
eign Service Reserve Officer, Maximum U.S.
Duty, George W. French, Jr., a "protege" of
Mr. Crockett commissioned in the "domestic"
Foreign Service Reserve so as not to be sub-
ject to civil service regulations. Neither has
given Mr. Otepka a performance rating, yet
the Civil Service Commission has not pro-
ceeded against either Mr. Gentile or against
Mr. French on the same grounds that it did
not take action against Mr. Crockett or Mr.
Boswell, namely that they themselves are not
subject to the Civil Service Conunission's
supervision.
Another "headache" for the Civil Service
Commission, according to the same source,
is the question whether Mr. Otepka's pres-
ent duties on "detail" to a position entitled
"Personnel Security Specialist" are commen-
surate with his GS-15, Step 6 salary of $20,-
585.00. The most recent DS-1032 Form on
Mr. Otepka, effective December 25, 1966, de-
tailing him for the seventh time to this po-
sition states that his duties are "to compile
materials obtained during the previous de-
tails pertaining to the Congressional Rec-
ord and other publications emanating from
the Congressional Committee on various
phases of the Security/Loyalty Programs of
the Department of Stare and other Govern-
mental Agencies relative to Congressional
interpretation of E.O. 10450 and related pro-
cedure: ,ad to render'a status report."
Classifiers at the Civil Service Commission
concede that the identical functions per-
formed at the Library of Congress are done
by workers at the GS-5 to GS-7 level. The
top step in GS-7 is $8,368, or $12,000 less than
Mr. Otepka's current pay. Thus, The Ex-
change's source revealed, the Civil Service
Commission is coming under increasing
criticism for having failed to conduct a desk
audit of the position to which Mr. Otepka
has been "detailed" for the last thirty-nine
months. A further criticism, related to this,
is that Mr. Otepka's seven details, each-for
six months, violates the statutes and the
civil service regulations that allow only one
such "detail" for six months and, thereaf-
ter, the position must be filled. by a civil
service employee signed" to it.
REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 3 OF
1967 TO PROVIDE A BE! TER GOV-
ERNMENT FOR THE CITIZENS OF
THE NATION'S CAPITAL-MES-
SAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES
The SPEAKER. The Chair lays before
the House a message from the President
of the United States.
CALL, Or THE IIOIUSE
Mr. HALL. Mr. Speaker, in accordance
with the established custom and in ,Jiem
Evidently a quorum is not present.
Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I move a
call of the House.
A call of the House was ordered.
The Clerk called the roll, and the fol-
lowing Members failed to answer to their
names:
[Roll No. 115]
Abbitt
Fulton, Tenn.
O'Konski
Abernethy
Gardner
Passman
JIanmore
Gathings
Philbin
flaring
Gray
Pickle
Bates
Gurney
Pollock
Battin
Halleck
Quie
Bell
Hanna
Reinecke
Blanton
Hansen, Wash.
Resnick
Brademas
Hardy
Rhodes, Pa.
Bray
Heckler, Mass.
Riegle
Brown, Calif.
Hicks
Rivers
Burton, Calif.
Holifield
Roudebush
Burton, Utah
Hosmer
Ruppe
Cabell
Ichord
St. Onge
Celler
Jacobs
Staggers
Clark
Jones, Mo.
Steiger, Wis.
(' %vsen, Del
Jones, N.C.
Stubblefield
clan
Karth
Sullivan
Conyers
King, Calif.
Teague, Tex,
Dent
Kornegay
Tiernan
Diggs
Kuykendall
Vander Jagt
Dingell
Kyl
Vigorito
Dow
Landrum
Waggonner
Downing
Leggett
Watkins
Duiski
Lloyd
Whalen
Eckhardt
Long, La.
Whalley
Edwards, La.
Lukens
Williams, Miss.
Erlenborn
McClory
Willis
Everett
Mailliard
Wilson,
Evins, Tenn.
Miller, Calif.
Charles H.
Fascell
Mink
Wolff
Feighan
Monagan
Younger
Foley
Nichols
Zion
Friedel
Nix
Zwach
The SPEAKER. On this rollcall, 331
Members have answered to their names,
a quorum. .
By unanimous consent, further pro-
ceedings under the call were dispensed
with.
SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL APPRO-
PRIATION BILL, 1967-AMEND-
MENT OF $20 MILLION FOR PUBLIC
LAW 874
(Mr. LAIRD asked and was given per-
mission to address the House for 1 min-
ute, to revise and extend his remarks,
and to include pertinent material.)
Mr. LAIRD. Mr. Speaker, last Thurs-
day, when we were debating the confer-
ence report on the second supplemental
appropriation bill, 1967, we had some dis-
cussion of Senate amendment No. 22
which would have appropriated $20,000,-
000 for operation and maintenance of
schools in federally affected areas. While
this amendment was not agreed to, sev-
eral Members asked me for information
regarding the school districts that would
that a quorum is not present, in order
to honor the President's message.
The SPEAKER. Does the gentleman
from Missouri insist upon his point of
order?
Mr. HALL. I do, Mr. Speaker, in view
of the fact that the President's message
contains an embargo until delivered to
the Congress on June 1, 1967, which in-
cludes any and all references to any
material in this message.
Mr. HAYS. Regular order, Mr. Speaker.
Mr. HALL. Mr Speaker, I insist upon
my point of order
The SPEAKER. The gentleman from
Missouri insists upon his point of order
that a quorum is not present.
agreed to. I told them I would place a
listing of these school districts in the
RECORD along with the entitlements of
each. I did not realize until I was re-
viewing the printed RECORD yesterday
that this listing was omitted. I have a
copy of what I intended to be included
in my remarks and shall place it in the
RECORD now:
PUBLIC LAW 81-874 APPLICATIONS (ACIOUNTS)
PENDING, WINCH CANNOT BE PAID _ ,1051
REGULAR 1967 APPROPRIATION (AS OF C.O.B.
MAY 31, 1967)
Ala-67-E-818, Jefferson Co. S.D., $62,053.
Ala-67-E-1801, Birmingham, $78,013.
Ariz-67-E-1801, Tempe E.S.D. .#3. $54,815.
Ariz-67-E-1806, Phoenix Union High
School System, $260,029.
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