ANTI-RED GROUP 'LOST' IN STATE DEPT. SHUFFLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300150035-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 1998
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: March 18, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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in the McLeod - Otepka tradi-
tion made then- extremely use-
ful potential witnesses before.
Congressional committees, but'
-as has now been decreed ap-,
parently in Foggy Bottom-ex-;;
tremely dangerous, in fact, too'
dangerous, for the bigwigs of
their own agency.
It's this palpable and long-?
sustained Ynpu ce of State to
"hide the facts spout itself"
from Congress which bids, fah'
-in the opinion of veteran
Capitol Hill hands-to make
the conduct and principal fi-
gures of the department a.
prime issue in the upcoming
Presidential campaign.
It was, another Republican
Congressmen, U.S. Itep. '.Henry
TL-ree of State's 'witness-.,
'the Hill is :!e-eloping a broad,f
.bipartisan bt,,e
A LONG LIST
Involved a an eight-year oldl
`fist of some 800 potential
,curity risks rim State's payrolls.
;The list was prepared undeil
Scott McLeoa a direction.
Some contend that it has!
been whittled down to 175 pro
i eds, pinks, alcoholics, sex de-
and and weak sisters, but.
:l (t. Otepka.-u ho charged his'
Phone was "barged" by Sta.t#
,t.mpleycs when he was chiefi
evaluator of security cases--
I'' reportedly believes that the
!true number of ."vuhierables"
,,may be closer to the 800 figurej
Mr Otepk?a himself, a Navvj
'Veteran and a lawyer, has been;
the subject of some of . the-
r.nhrt quicksilverish testimony,
by, State Dept. employes ever
heard by the Senate Internal`
Security subcommittee.
ternal Security Subcommittee. yery..verlt._pink._,.
It "",as schedpica for lasi'
'week, it"wab icarncd yesterday,
,but put off because of the ill-,
Goleniewskl ttld him and two
aides about stirs and subver-
sives on U. S. Government pay-
rolls, Rep. Feighan won from
CentralInteliitience Agency bi-
rector John, A, McCone a
promise that the defector could
sake a prev,oisly-thwarted ap-
pearance before. the Senate In-
C. , Schadcberg of Wisconsin,
who introduced the other bill
calling for a top-to-bottom in-
vestlga.tioti of State.
But it was a Democrat, Rep.
Michael A. Fcighan of Ohio,
who locked horns with the ex-
ecutive branch on the issue Of
Soviet Secret Police defector,
Lt. Col. Michael Golcnlewski.
PROMISE
WON
Shocked by what Col.
were obliged to write "clan ily
mng" letters after giving fats,
testimony about their ..Dying'.
on Mr. Otepka.
Two have since been fired..
Mr. Otepka was hooted out'
of his security job-apparently
for telling the Senators that.
his department's security pro-
gram was a shambles-but he
has been kept on the agency's
payroll "pending a review of
his. case" by Secretary of State
Rusk.
More and more the able and
smooth-talking Mr. Rusk, ac-
cording to soundings taken by I!
this reporter, is working him
self' into the gun-sights of ex--
asperated legislators of both'
major parties, except those'
who are very, very patient or!
MAR 1 s1964
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