TOFTE IS SUSPENDED BY CIA; FBI ACTS IN JEWEL MYSTERY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400390038-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: August 5, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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loite.ls suspended bytiA;.
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;,1667 35th st? nw. )' p VA
t- , The jewclrv was. missed onr~~- "`~-~
vvui- .,w..tnetr?? new.' :?;'i - went: ,lnimldiate 1t'
,jewelry from their home at olise, ahe. ; tlnid tmt r
metlt~ R4h
1Ce n W ti
,
t
I 0 oug m gilt torn dUt to Was waiting for ? ahem to ad-
agent, whose wife, Marlys, re- be the case,
sorted the disannna vl9e them ? '.that ' thg: ti1ag11
? ? cnuseus ave. nw., as police she Aid, another CIA, 'man
Tofte, 59, its upper-echelon als th h
i
town jewels. 1) sing. It is all still gone, she floor closet shelf. -
said, nor has she mislaid It in When she and her husband
The CIA also gave the case' the process of packing to returned home in the evening
another bizarre twist by an-I move from their Georgetown of the day the CIA men lm= ',
nouncine the susnPnsinn frnm, ti......- .-
en ra me ligence cated some of the pieces he to tidy up the place, so the,
Agency's cloak'-and - dagger) originally. had' reported mis- tucked it way back on a thirds
case of the missing Geor e-
The FBI has taken a hand their report that she had lo- men would be coming in there'
In the g' t 1 I I
3 , OI Le nume in connection
with the Agency's' investiga
, tion of suspicions that Toftea
'had breached its security regu-
lations.
The CIA's announcementi.
.said Tofte, a World War If,
:underground and commando'
hero, would not be cut off
from his salary (about $25;000)
,during the suspension and,
rvould hold himself abailablei
`for, occasional consultation'
with his supervisor, Howard
.Osborn, director of tthe Agen-J
cy's. security. '
The FBI's entrance into the)
.case was on-the routine' pre-
sumption?that the missing jew?
els have been taken across
State lines, and becauise: the
.considerable value involved)
gives it the necessary' juri.Ldlc'
tinn.
It means, however, that FBI!
Pg-'tits v; ill be n.ner,'ioning
CIA agents ' Kenneth, Ii. Sloe
cum and Charles b. -S"e.ke
-who already have told -Wash.,
*in.gton detectives: that they
meddled with no jewelry,
f
?. o
te s very, sensitive-, manu
scripts.
Tofte said he, was ,notified
;of his suspension abdtit 9 a.m.
.yesterday - by a,' letter detiir
His comment. was, "I plan??t?~
gn fishing."
Mrs. Tofte sought -.t-o., cleilrj
up a' littf a Whisp .o'f -the case'
;heavy fog with:.an,expitnatidit
;of why thb Washington *]n'iibe
yniay have -waited ? nearly
'
.f.jewel larceny wrch
ing
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