EXPOSED CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS UNDER CIA INVESTIGATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400300028-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: August 3, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

CORPUS CHRISTI TIKES ' STATINTL
Approved For Release 1999/09A1J'G: CI$--R 75-00001 R000400300028
C)
t? r~ ,y, 5Kc i Z?e
77-
.,
', WASHINGTON ('At') - ThelSaturday, the 23rd of July, he
'Central Intelligence Agencylwas shown through the resi-
said Tuesday it is investi'gatingdence by Mr. Tofte's mother-in-
"the presence of exposed classi- law through arrangements
fied documents" in the Wash- made by the realty company
ington home of one of its em-, "During the course of the vis-
ployes. ;it, Mr. Slocum noticed by,
The CIA spokesman also saidlchance classified agency ma-1
the agency is, cooperating withiterial in one of the rooms being
?Washington police authorities inishown and reported this
!an investigation of a report bytpromptiy to agency security
-,ins Toftc that some jewelry officials.
belonging to his wife was Huss-1 Security Violation
A \Iinncapolis Tribune story lPosed"Since the classified presence documents of in ex-al
tby Clark Mollenhoff said'someI
private home constitutues a vie
20
th
f
l
000
Apps
5
,
wor
jewe
o
ry was
,reported missing from Tofte's after some other CIA per- had been there. For SaleAsked about this, a CIA said: "Mr. Hans Tolle, an employe of this agen-
cy, had s.;rnetime ago listed his home at 1667 35th Street North.
west, Washington, D.C., for sale by the J. C. Chatel Realty Co. The realty c o in p any ar ranged for Mr. Kenneth R. Slo? cum, 2911 P Street Northwest, also an employe of this agency, to see this property. "Mr. Slocum was not awareof Mr. Tofte's agency affiliation at the time he visited the prop ertg. In company with his wife and as a private individual on
lation of agency security regula
tions, , Mr. and Mrs. Slocum and
Mrs. . Charles D. Speake, 4570
MacArthur Boulevard North-
,west, west -
, a security representative
of this agency, , returned to the'
residence
were again admitted
by
Tofte's mother-in-law
and took custody
Pied of the classi?
material.
"Subsequently Mr. Tofte :J.
.vised a security official of this
agency that
some jewelry be.
longing
~ to his wife was missing.
He, was encouraged to report
this immediately to the Metro
politan Police Department of
the District
of Columbia, which
we
understand, is now inves
Itigating the reported loss.
"The agency is cooperating
fully with the authorities of the
,Seventh Precinct in this inves-
tigation."
Notified Immediately
The CIA spokesman said that
Tofte was away at the time the
classified material was found in,
his home, and was notified
about this immediately ..on hist
return late July 24.
Slocum declined comment.
At the Seventh Precinct, in,
the fashionable Georgetown
area 'ni which Tofle's home is
located, police officials said
Mrs. Tofte reported some S19,-
1130 in jewels and some manu-
scripts she could not, identify
were taken.
They said a chock of pawn
shops had not .;uuccd
sign of the valuables. Originally
Mrs. Tofte had estimated $29,-,
000 worth of jewelry missing but
oved For Release 1999/09/17
f Qa t 0300028-1
jeweler's for repairs, they sand.