CIA OUTRAGES OWN SPYING EXPERT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400390058-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 1999
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: August 3, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

TILE OREGON JOURNAL
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WASHINGTON (UPI)- The
Central Intelli;--ince Agency is
investigating one of its ex-
perts in clandestine affairs.
Classified 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 investi-
gation after the house hunter
and a CIA security man re-
turned to his Georgetown
home and recovered the docu-
ments.
TOFTE SAID that after the
second visit, he was missing
$20,000 in je:%,Ary belonging to
his wife.
At V x the documents
were discov;red by Kenneth R.
Slocum, who reported his find
to CIA security men, neither
Tofte nor ;locum knew the
other was employed by the
VS. spy agency.
A CIA spokesman gave the
agency's side of the story
Tuesday in response to a story
in the Minneapolis TribunelTofte still is on the agency's1this agency that some jewelry
and the Des Moines Regis er employment rolls, but that the belonging to his wife was
and Tribune by Washington I investigation of his handling missing.
correspondent Clark Mollenh-,of classified documents is con-1 "]IE WAS encouraged to re-
off.
Tofte told UPI that the CIA
staged a "silly cloak and dab
ger raid" on his home, and
that he was outraged. He said
it was customary for CIA men
of his standing to take papers
home to work on them. The
Mollenhoff story described
Tofte as a $25,000-a-year man
for the CIA.
HE SAID the agency could
well have waited outside his
home until he had returned
home, and then asked him to
get the documents. Instead, he
said, they dist-acted his moth-
er-in-law while ostensibly
looking at the house, and pick-
ed them up.
.He said, "What started as a
coincidence ended as a
clumsy, performance.'.' He
termed the handling of the
matter,. !'unprofessional."
- The ;:CIA spokesman : said
tinuing. 'nort this immediately to the
The CIA spol:~,sman saidlMetropolitan Police Depart-
Tofte listed his home for salelment of the District of Colum-
with a realty ciao, which Pr-~bia, which we understand is
ranged for Slocum to see thelinvestigating 'the reported,
property. doss. This agency is cooperat-
SLOCUM was shown through ling fully with the authorities
the house by - Tofte's mother-
in-law on July 23. Tofte said
he only wanted to show a
basement apartment. .
"Since the presence of ex-
posed classified documents in
a private home constitutes a
violation of agency security
regulations, Mr. and Mrs.
Slocum and Charles D.
Speake, a security represen-
tative of, this agency, returned
to the residence on July 24,"
the spokesman said.
"They were again admitted
by Tofte's ? mother-in-law and
took custody of the classified
material. Subsequentlyy, Tofte
advised a security, official of
vestigation."
Police said they went to the
home on July 25 and that Mrs.
Tofte told them that approx-
imately $19,000 worth of jewels
in a purse were missing from
a first floor closet.
The policemen said. Mrs.'
Tofte ? also mentioned that
some "manuscripts" were
missing. from the third floor,
but that she didn't know much
about them except that they'
belonged to her husband.
A check of pawnshops in the
area has failed th turn.up any
trace of the missing. jewels,
police said.
Approved For Release 1999/09/17 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000400390058-9