(Classified) IS SUSPENDED BY CIA, FBI ACTS IN JEWEL MYSTERY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400340015-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: August 5, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POST
AND 'TIMES HERALD
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The FBI has taken a hand their report that she had ;o?
:.z the Central ir:telligencelcated some of the pieces he
i ency's cloak.. and ? daggerl originally had reported mis-
case of the missing George-'sing. It is all still gone, she
...own jewels. said, nor has she mislaid it in
The CIA. also gave the case the process of `packing to
"r,.^.other bizarre twist by an?Imovct from their Georgetown
^;uncing the suspension from house to one at 2362 Massa-
;: normal duties of Hans V. chusetts ave. nw., as pollee
of Le, 59, its upper-echelon also thought might turn out to
agent, whose wife, Marlys, re- be the case.'
orted the disappearance
of she wMS
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to
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take
he
. r ore than $20,000 worth of eR ajy+y over to their r
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ew went LMMOM tely
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r,eweiry from their home at oti o, sae said'hut rea'd~i aahero'~` 11g. 'ptit U-0, ctvels;
. 35h st. nw. y JW c~ dt.a: J
the jewelry was missed on .B n at;.~. 1 w~?':73 :, t? h ''t
er CIA agents had confiscated{
'
.some manuscripts fromthef
"Tofte' home in connection
with the Agency's, investiga
tion of suspicions that Toftel
,had breached its security regu-
:ations,
The CIA's announcement
said Tofte, ?a Worl4 War' II
underground and commando.'
hero, would not be cut of
from his salary (about 1;25;000)
during the suspension : and
would hold himself available)
for' occasional consultation'
'With his supervisor, Howard
Osborn, director of the Ageri-;
cy's' security.'
The FBI's entrance into the1
ease was on-the routine ,)re-1
sumption'that the missing jew-
els .have been 'taken acrosSJ
,State lines, and because: the)
considerable value 'involved;
gives it the necessary; jurisdie
ti on.
It means, however, 'that FBI!
1,nts will be nnra'ioning
CIA agents Kenneth,Ii. 'Sire
cum and Charles D. S"eake
1who already have to?d,Wash?
ingtorl detectives, that they;
:meddled with no jewelr~!
'whild they were. Impounding,
Tote's "very, sensitive". manu-'
scripts, .
Tofte said he , was .notified.
of his suspension about 9 a.m;
,yesterday- by aa' letter deliU 1
ered by special, .mes,soagei'
I- is comment. was, '`f
iishinn" p' td
.. rs. Tofte sought to
'
a little \l
risp oftha
s 'e, C ~heavy fog witLan,explariation
if why thb Was:ington Y;ririb
,niay have -waited' nearly' .
,we^k h frmally repot
;ing' the. jewel"-] arccnx: Chip'
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men wouia oe coming in tner '
to tidy up the place, so sha,
tucked it way back on a third',
floor closet shelf,
When she and her husband
returned home in the evening'
of the day the CIA men im.'
pounded Tofte's manuscripts,
She g'aid, another CIA tna
Was waiting for ''them to ad-
vise, .them ..that.'. the. map u.1