CIA AIDE REPORTS GEMS MISSING FOLLOWING VISITS BY COLLEAGUES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400290013-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: August 3, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGHTBy Morton Mintz / j-~
octon Post start WrILcr
An undercover investigation
by the Central, Intsll'igence
Agency of one of its own high.
level officials has brought the,
r urs of bizarre
Publicity and serious charges
about its methods of operation.
The story Involves $20,000 to
$30,000 In , jewels discovered
missing after a CIA visitation,
Hs Hob nurchette, Staff Ph
STORbI CENTER._Thls is the Geor otographer
home of
in jCIAewels official are missing V. Tofte, getown
from which $20,000 to $30,000
issing following What Tofte calls #,an.
lag" by agents from his own aSe oop
OP-
a
S &wne
10 see about renting "
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According to to the CIA S1
o
cum was "not aware of Mr.
Tofte's Agency affiliation" and.
vas Sr,,....n ..
arty by Torte's runlhn.I w,
Inn 86-year-old woman C7faI' o oi' In la Ie s
state of shock and . r,,,..- ,e'hnwnvn,.e LelSler. The Tofte,
veorgetown neighborhood,show ?""r'1e wash
abounding with CIA b
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The officiail, Hans V. Tofte,;Chatel flan.
said last night that one CIA The, CIA
r2 I{enn statement said
n2a, eth
R Slo that "Sl
.cum, hadocum noticed by
"snooped inside his home M chance classified agency ma-
an area that was?"absolutely off terial in oe of the rooms
!limits" and had than reported being shown and reported
wet he found like "a good ht- this promptly to Agency secu.
y city officials."
Tofte said this was followed But the Toftes said that
by a "stupid cloak
although Sl
d
'
an
ocum
a
ag
. ger rai had come to
d" in which his mother. see a
in-law basement apartment had been biim?boozlcd, got Into a third-floor area
ea
lie said that all
used b
of thi lf
y Tofte li
set as abrary and
Ihim "outraged as a private which was closed to everyone.'
citizen" and dismayed as a There, Tofte said, he had'
man with pride In the agency manuscript material for a text.
at its unprofessional perform. book and CIA
ante. home "b material taken
;l + In a separate interview, his of homework.' fIn
$ wife Marlys sh a statment
ared h h T l
ertls?ofte saidast Saturday
,band's outrage at what she "is customar
!called, the "Im g Papers home
" pertinence and
ruthle
forxecutty
ssness
and seir
nor peso nnel . Of the Young g as em
as well-
ll
to
;this g through p yes of certain ranks
house." and responsibilities"
The
accountfh The A
o te episodegency's ?'. contention
given by that Slocum discovered was backed of to and his wife CIA discovered the
by J. C. Chatel a material by chance was
realtor who shared th
p countered b
eir a
who
ner and is now the own g said it was se urel wrapped
house now of the in a parcel y wrapped
brick resid nce i at a 3-st5ory th moving, and thatp' het parcel
st. nw. 1667
was under a blanket that,In
But a spokesman for the turn, was under a tarpaulin
CJA, Cmdr, John M
On Sunday J
l
u
oran
y 24 th C
,,eIA
sued a statement defending statement said, the Slocum
the agency's rol
couple ret
e andig
urned t th
saynoe 35th
that
as Slocum had seen "exposeSpeakeh4570 With d S "Charles D.
vate home . rnants in violation oftur blvd.
n?'. a security Mrepresentative
of
thle
a en
n
"
agency
complex story began iThey ?
were
again when complex
June atted
M
b
-
59 a
r Toft' ol y
,.es motherin-law War II underground andr 'and took custody of the classi.
mando hero, sold his house tofled material;" the atate rment
Chatel's real estate arm,-icontinued,
which then advertised it for Subsequen
rental or sal
~' Mr. T o f t
:
e
e advlaed
, a On July 23, ,Slocum,. Of ?.81I .thlaA10aeca some official of
07 that t some Jewelry,
Contfnuea
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