CIA SUSPENDS DUTIES O(Classified) DURING PROBE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400300023-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: August 4, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 1,999/09/17 CIA-RDP75-00
STAfj&NTt 1968
CPYRGHT
"A' Suspends' :Duties
0f TofteDuringPr~he
suspended from his duties, as a
top-level official at the Central
Intelligence Agency during an
investigation of whether he
violated security regulations by
taking secret material from .the
agency as "homework."
"I was told that I was to work
directly with the' top director of
security until this thing was
worked out one way or -the
other," Tofte ::,,id last night. "I
have no other - duties than to
cooperate with him."
The CIA said yesterday that
one of ' its agents saw classified
documents in Tofte's home at
1667 35th St. NW while house-
hunting on July 23 and 'returned
with an. agency security officer
the next day to retrieve them.
In a report to' police on' the
fallowing day
Tofte's' wife said
,
his wife contacted : Chatel on
that $19,000 in jewelry. loset July'23 and dropped by the 35th
geared from a'first-floor closet about the same time the docStreet house to look''at a base-
u- ameat
ments were whisked away. m eet' , Chatel said.
The Danish-born Tofte served .? they, wexie., ?hown`the base-
with the OSS during World War meat. and also.. the. first floor of
II and has been with CIA the. ;buildi#j!( a;tel'isald, but
now for, nearly 16 yei,. A1, then ?Slocum-'t '-tb" the third
though' the notpre of his duties 1 fb t'ent,
W*YIR.AJR4 P1e .iggat~ U; 1a3,`
}y'e~:a.,,.?:,. w>::, .:.;, :rte r.i,r..e- ,
to believe they consisted largely
of Tofte's own writings, based
on his long experience in intel-
ligence work.
When Tofte was asked if he
had ever had trouble before
,
about taking materials homey-
from work, he said:
"There's hardly anyone who's
active life, ' who doesn't I have
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sa sry. o a little ess than $25,-
000'a year' indicates that he is in
the upper'echelons of the agen-
and apparently looked at the
package of documents.
The next day, the Slocums
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Although the 'CIA said the
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Aemlt lthu who discovered the i''ty representative of the CIA,
returned to the house and got
papers in Tofte's .home did not the documents, the CIA said..
know- Tofte'..was. also a CIA it was on the next day that
man,. the accbunts' given by Mrs. Tofte reported both the
Tofte and J. C.? Chatel, a realtor ;documents-which she de-
to whom he sold the building in scribed to police as "manu-
June, indicate the other CIA script material"--and $19,000 in
man may have known what he jewelry missing. Lt. John Kline
was looking for. ? of the 7th Precinct said late
The documents, Tofte said, 'yesterday he had questioned
i
were
n a third-floor library Slocum, who denied any knowl-
which was off-limits even to his!edge of the jewels and said he
wife. They: were, wrapped inIhad not even opened the door of
both a blanket and a tarpaulinlthe first-floor closet where they
because the Toftes were moving were kept.
to' a' new home.. Neither Tofte nor the CIA
In answer to an ad, Kenneth would describe the documents
R. Slocum of 2911 P St. NW and involved, but there was reason