SECURITY SIEVE: SECURITY EXPERTS ARE UP IN ARMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300260007-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: December 1, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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Security Sieve: Security experts are up in arms
over the recent a ecm eau 0r
Security and Consular Affairs that it will hack 25
trained security agents from its payroll as of
December 2. Headed by the controversial Salvatore
Bontempo, whose closest previous brush with intelli-
gence operations was as New Jersey's conservation
commissioner, the Bureau is charged with pro-
tecting the State Department from possible espion-
age agents and security ris%s. '. ~?
Its reduction in trained personnel rought
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severe condemnation from,,., er~
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John W}cam
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W. Hanes, Jr,, Bontempo s predecessor as
Oftwu of ` the bureau. Hanes told HUMAN
EVENTS last week:
"While I realize that the Bureau must live with
recent budget reductions, there is nothing in its
pattern of cutting personnel which attempts to
keep the integrity of the security section. In fact,
just the opposite. I can only say this either is due
to incompetence or a deliberate attempt to render
the State Department's security section ineffective."
Hanes also criticized the abolition of the "report-
ing branch," a central repository for all reports
that come in to the Bureau.
"The elimination of this branch will render
security operations far more difficult," he explained.
Hanes also said he was dismayed at the elimina-
tion of the post of Deputy Director of Office of
Security. The position is presently filled by Otto
Otepka, a 19-year veteran of government service,
who has been handling the personnel security
ittee is now looking into the case.
section. The Senate Internal Security Subc
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