CIA PROBES OWN EXPERT IN SECRET DOCUMENT HASSLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400340019-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: August 3, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

ChICAGO, ILL.
DEWS
F,. 466,392
'Eil secret.
Daily News Wire Services
WASHINGTON-The Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency is in-
vestigating one of its experts,
in clandestine affairs. Classi-'
fied documents were found in
his home by another CIA man
who was looking for a place to
live.
The expert-.Hans V. Tofte
-was brought under investiga-
tion after the house hunter and
a CIA security man returned
to Tofte's Georgetown home
and recovered the documents.
Tofte, said that after the sec-
ond visit some ? $20,000 in
jewelry belonging to his wife
was. missing.
well have waited outside his Slocum was. shown through
home until he had returned the house by Tofte's mother-in-
home, and then asked him to law on July 23.
get the documents. Instead, he '
said, they distracted his mother- THE TOFTES said that al-
in-law while ostensibly looking though Slocum had come to
at the house, and picked them see a basement apartment he
tip, got into a third-floor area used
by Tofte as a library and
FIE SAID "what started as a which was closed to everyone
coincidence ended as a clumsy else.
performance." He termed the There, Tofte said, he had
handling of the matter unpro= manuscript material for a text-
fessional."' book and CIA ? material taken
The CIA spokesman said home "by me, for the purpose
Tofte was still on the agency's of homework." Mrs. Tofte
employment rolls but the -in- 4aid the CIA material was se-
vestigation of his handling of curely wrapped - in a parcel
classified documents was con- preparatory to' moving, and
'tinuing. . that the parcel was under a
AT THE time the docu- ? The CIA'spokesman said that blanket that in turn was under
ni nts were discovered by Ken- Tofte'. had listed his 'home for 'a tarpaulin.
neth R. Slocum, who reported Sale with g tealty firm. "Since the presence of ,ex??
his find to CIA security mrr..
the other was employed by t
U.S. spy agency.
A CIA spokesman gave the,
agency's side of the story Tues-'
day in response to a story in
the Minneapolis Tribune and
the Des Moines Register and
(Tribune by Washington corre
Tofte told United Press In-'
ternational that CIA had staged
a "silly cloak and dagger raid" j.
on his home, and he was out-
raged. Ile said it was custom-~
ary for CIA men of his stand.,
ing to take papers home to'
story described Tofte as a $25,-
000-a-year man for the CIA.,J . , ' '
He said the agency could
Sanitized. "M,Approved;_For Release:.:'
posed classified documents in
a ,.private home constitutes a
violation of agency security
regulations, Mr, and Mrs. Slo-j
cum and Mr. harles D.;
Speaks,; a security represents':
tive of this agency, returned,
to the residence on Sunday,!
July 24," the CIA spokesman
said. ;~?
"They were again admitted;
by Mr. 'Tofte's mother-in-law;
and took custody of the cassi-,
fied material. Subsequently, ?,
Mr. Tofte advised a security
official of this agency that
some jewelry belonging to his,
wife was missing.
Police 'officers who investi-;i'
gated the case said that they ~
went to the home. on July 251
and Mrs. Tofte told them that(
approximately $19,000' worth
of jewels , in :`pone were4
musing from' a jir:it+ floors
closet; , ' .