FORMER SPY QUERIES CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400390013-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 1999
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: August 13, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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'FORMER SPY
OERIES CI'
Suspended Agent ~uestio s
(checking chhrges that he viola) d
'security regulations. .
~., The 55-year-old Danish-born ve-
leran of cloak-and-dagger opera-
!confrontation today with the C i-
~tral Intelligence Agency poi 1
Washington, Aug... 12 iAh-I[
jV. Tofte said today he demand
,at: a Ctk inquiry a public sta
mcnt by Richard Helms, ~ int
?lixence chief, on whether the s
agency illegally searches Ame
scan homes.
~ Tofte reported this after a br
~ Searching Procedures
;States pE America?"
' ~: Yes Or No
He slid he demanded that
Helms ''Answer -yes 6r no In per-
son and In public." .. ~
"'AV! of a kuddc~n? the .meeting,
ttwos '.over," he aided. ''I was ea-?,
I,t~or4ed_ yq~ : w nle: ;~ngetln~
lasted six minutes." 1
There was no CIA comment onj
Tnft.e's versions of today's events.
Tofle Holed that the CIA Is em-
powered by, its charter to run in-
telligence operations overseas,
but not inside the United States.
He contends that even CIA em-
ployees have a citizen's right
against lllegal search and seizure
aL home-and that the CIA violat-
s! his horse ,iuly 24: He says he
d, would have fi?ccly admitted CIA
security men if they had arrived
~:~ with proper legal Authority.
CIA Vdrslon
yrG 1'he CIA's version is ~ LhaL
~"7'ofte's house was up for rent and?
a fellow CIA employee chanced,
f on secret C1A documents there,
while he was genuinely apartment
~liunting, It is against CIA regula?
lions to take classified material
some. , ie , emp oyes re-
hu?ncd the following day with a
'security man and picked up, the
pay from his ;25,1100?a-year posi-
ton, lvhile the CIA probes ~ .the
case.
Tote confirmed' a report that
he had written a letter to a Ma-
n w~ ou ue~~on City (Iowa) friend, which con-
;;process .of law within the con-i'
,tinental limits' of Lhe United;tains criticism of the present CIA
jbegan that "it was 'a board of in-
'quiry" so "I made one inquiry;
i."'Has the C1A now stropped en-
tering people's homes illegally,
minus 'a warrant a d 'th t d
said he was told as the meetings 1O1Le uas neon suspended with
set-up. ~ story by Clark Mollenh-
ofLin the Cowles Newspapers said
the letter indicates Tofte have ln-
side.informatton about lh'e Bay of
Figs, the Dominican ? 13cpubli~,
end ;Vietnamese operations.- that
could embarrass the CIA: ~ ~ ; .} ,
,: Tile CIA had no comment." ~ t,~ i
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