CIA STAGES INSIDE THRILLER: 'AGENT AGAINST AGENT'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400390032-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 1999
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: August 5, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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in a bizarre case involving agent visited his Washington ;!? Kenneth R. Slocum, and Charles., agency said Slocum discoverd.
gent against agent and $19,000 home, will stay on the payroll. U. Speake, on July 24. classified documents at the
n missing jewelryj at his regular salary of nearly The CIA said the-two agents house and reported it .to his'
Aa CIA nspokesemann nsai`d nthe . $25,000 annually until an +n-,,,. recovered some classified ~docu- .r . superiors. The document!; Awere Is 13 A .1 A 1.
e, was suspended from his`' agency said. r - M out of its headquarters. ~~-~ - ,planation said. and pl,acea under the sup- Washington police said they After the alleged raid, Tofte Tofte, his wife, and the owner!
rvision of Howard Osborne, :. still were yvorking_on the jewel- said, his wife discovered, about' of the $80,000 house, real estate;
he agency would not define other UTA. agents' anSI the wife the home. ~ ? - f Slocum pretended to want to
recisely what Tofte normally ? of one of them. N chargls) The CIA sold $ioed t i[hd hie( - see a basement apartment for
ova, but be is, generally said W;?, )-aV4,been- filed ;' ; ? k;;_ eife.?.rlsitrti; {Gofte'a;hmein rent and then went "snooping"
L. through the rest of the house.
n1Tofte calletd it "amateurish."
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ligence work for 23 years. He
s. pointment of Richard Helms as
director of the CIA, because he.;
;:.felt no career agent ehou)d
have the job.. Tofte himself was .
I,epo;tUd !under criticism, for a?
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