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• Publication Date: October 18, 1967
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to bring in ships less heavily loaded.
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dustry Is responsible klr water or air pollu-
tion, it must find an a ternc,tive. The prob-
:em of pollution is too A -st and has too big
a head start to tolerate ft ther violations.
In some instances, it is , 01111; to cost in-
drstry money to make the leeded adjust- ,
ments. But it will cost less t act now, than
to delay. Industry should meet the challenge
and we are confident it will.
Meanwhile, we trust the Corps Engineer
will do as they promise and end ti dumping
In Lake Michigan now?not three are from
now.
International Triagazine Launched
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
HON. ROGERS C. B. MORTON
OF MARYLAND
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Wednesday, October 18, 1967
Mr. MORTON. Mr. Speaker, the role of
? communications in the modern world is
a vital one. As technical advances make
the world smaller, we must maintain a
constant flow of thoughts and ideas
among the nations of the Western
Hemisphere.
Recently a new magazine was brought
into the mainstream of communications,
? designed to broaden understanding o
other nations and peoples. The followi
article is a statement of the purpose f
Interplay magazine:
In our lifetimes an integrated Euro e, of
now unknown size and nature, and orth
America will be coming to terms. An. cipat-
ing that day, it seems wise to establi a free-
flowing channel of communicatio through
which Europeans and Americans n get in-
side one another's minds, sha thinking
about their mutual concerns, a d, in effect,
engage in private policy planni g of external
' affairs. This is Interplay's rais t d'etre.
How does the informed Eur ean feel about
the prolonged American ary presence in
his midst? How worried i ae about. invest-
ment invasions from the ited States, about
nuclear burden sharing, bout the effects of
American "pop" cultt c on his national
values? Conversely, h do Americans feel
about the new isolati ism emerging in some
quarters of Europe? bout the new markets
, western European dustrialists are opening
up in eastern E' rope? About the power
vacuums left be -,nci in ASla and Africa by
the break-up o the European colonial em-
pires? Interpl believes that these matters
must be give 2 a fuller and franker airing if
Europeans ad Americans are ever to under-
stand one other.
- There 1-; no truly international journal of
opinion r-itcl reportage about the new societies-
. being f mod by the technological, or what
might e called the second industrial, revolu-
tion nterplay aims to narrow the journalis-
tic ap. These new industrial societies in-
evitably will be international because the
interplay of current forces and ideas forming
them cannot be contained within national
boundaries. Interplay will focus on the Eur-
Atlantic areas since the hiz,,hy developed in-
dustrial nations are, for the most part, now
? 'located in Europe and North America. In
' charting the changes and foreshadowing de-
velopments, Interplay will publish articles
by some of the best-informed journalists,
authors and officials on both sides ol'the At-
lantic.
A Realistic Pace
EXTENSION OF REMA
OF
HON. JOSL;71: G. .:IN:S1-1-
OF NEW JERS Y
IN THE HOUSE OF REP ? ESENTATIVES
Wednesday, Octa er 18, 1967 .
- Mr. MINISH. Mr pcaker, an excel-
lent editorial on th need to continue the
war on poverty at 'a realistic pace," such
as the recently p ssed Senate version of
the Economic 0 portunity Amendments
of 1967, would jrovide, appeared in. the
Newark Eveni g News on October 7. In
order that colleagues may have the
enefit of tife viewpoint of this highly
respected v ice of the press, I insert the
ect"torial this point in the RECORD With
th aope at this body will soon approve
an Z nti overty bill consistent with the
bons tive Senate bill: -
A REALISTIC PACE
Th ip.2 billion authorized by the Senate
for ot1fr year's attack on poverty, while in-
ad uate, recognizes that it would be. a
d usion t suggest the solution lies in
nding ou more billions.
The Senat did add 8108 million to what
resident Jonson had requested for his
antipoverty program. This increase acknowl-
edged that mar,A?e needs to be done, but in
more fundamental ways than by pouring an
additional $2.8 nllion into creating only
200,000 cmergeny jobs over a two-year
period, ' an idea he Senate- turned down
Wednesday.
As was pointed ott?in debate, there's less a
lack of jobs than ack of men and women
needed skills has beet -one of the promising
qualified to fill thent Training to develop
objectives of the antipoverty program, even
though of limited succ ,ss so far. Thus $10
million added by the Set 'tte is for incentives
to employers to hire and ain the disadvan-
taged, and $35 million 1 for day care -for
children of mothers at worl br being trained.
These are in addition to $S t,2 million which
the Senate approved for con inning the Job
Corps and work-training projC-ts. ,
Similar long-range possibilities lie in the
$108 million which the Senate dded to ad-
vance development in high-un ployment
areas, including assistance to s aall busi-
nesses. The attention given to ru 1 neigh-
borhoods under the program is als a con-
tribution to the cities. For urban un ploy-
inent is worsened by flight from po erty-
stricken rural areas.
Financing the war In Vietnam is of course
draining funds which might go to the war
on poverty. Still, the Senate authorization is
$600 million higher than was appropriated
last year, and there is no clear evidence that
the billions allocated so far have done the
job expected. The Senate has provided for a
reasonable growth without pushing the pro-
tram faster than ,Washington seems able to
handle it. .
Walty. Rostow Exposiiiie: Index ot
General Situation
EXTENSION OF REMARKS ,
HON. JOHN R. RAR/CK FOIA 3
OF LOUISIANA
IN TIIE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, September 28, 1967
Mr. RARICK. Mr. Speaker, in a state-
ment to the House on October 17, 1967,
I quoted a newsstory concerning the
-security. status of Walt W. Rostow, now.
special assistant to the President on na-
tional security affairs, published in the
October 4, 1967, issue of the St. Louis
Globe Democrat. I
Although the charges leveled at Dr.
Rostow are startling enough for anyone -
in this position of such great responsi-
bility, they seem to be only a part of a
general situation among certain. agen-
cies of our Government as indicated by
newsstories in the October 21, 1967, is-
sue of Human Events, a well-known
Washington weekly newspaper.
Mr. Speaker, one report, revealed in
the story on "The Importance of Se-
curity," is that during the Korean war
both Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his
chief of intelligence, Maj. ? Gen. C. A.
Willoughby, were certain that informa-.
? tion about vital decisions by our Govern- ?
ment concerning military operations was
passed by Communist agents in Wash-.
ing ton to the Soviet Government.
One cannot help but wonder to what
extent our war effort in Vietnam is being
subverted.
The indicated news stories follow:
INTERNAL SECURITY BREAKDOWN
, The scandalous 'scrapping of high security
standards for America's most sensitive gov-
ernment agencies may well develop into a
major issue during the 1968 presidential con-
test. Though suppressed or ignored by major
metropolitan dailies, the continual unfold-
ing of stories revealing a shocking laxity in
government security procedures has rocked
conservative-minded lawmakers on Capitol
Hill. -
Here, for example, are just a few startling -
revelations now being studied by concerned
congressmen:
Item: Security Collapse at the White House.
Walt Whitman Rostow, a special assistant to
the President on national security affairs, it
is now discovered, was three times rejected
for service in the Eisenhower Administration
because he was considered a possible security
risk.
According to briefs recently filed in a Civil
Service ease by former State Department se- -
curity evaluator Otto Oteplta, the Air Force
made a security ruling adverse to Rostow
prior to 1955 and the State Department made
similar findings in 1055 and 1957, all reject-
ing Rostow for service on highly secretive
projects. -
Piled in an effort to save his own career
Civil Service job, the Oteplta briefs charge
that Secretary of State-designate Dean Rusk
and Attorney General-designate Bobby Ken-
nedy came to Otepka. in 1960 to get him to
waive security procedures in the Rostow case
and others, but Otepka said he would evalu-
ate all cases only according to the high
standards previously followed.
Bobby, reportedly, flew into a wild rage. -
According to Oteplca, conflict with Kennedy
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item: Security breakdown at the State De-
partment. According to the Otepka briefs, the
State Department eviscerated security stand-
eras and approved or condoned major miss. ?
conduct by foreign service officers?Indust,?
ing homosexuality, deliberate hiding of se-
curity violations and the delivery of classi-
fied information to Communists.
The Otepka brief outlines at least 18
cases, some enumerated in a story below, of .
alleged security violations. Otepka, though
rated 'a top-notch security evaluator during
the Eisenhower Administration, was finally
fired from his job in 1063 after his room Was
bugged and his safes broken into at night.
(His case is still pending before a State De-
partment hearing examiner.)
Item: The Stephen Koczak case. Former
foreign service officer Stephen Koczak has
charged that his State Department person-
nel record was rigged with distortions and
"forged pages" to make it possible to fire him
under the "select out" process.
Like Otepka, Koczak had only high ratings
in his personnel file until 1061. But dif-
ficulties paralleling those of Otepka soon
developed when he reported what he con-
sidered to be violations of national security
procedures on the part of his superior, a for-
eign service officer stationed in Germany.
The trouble between Koczak and his
superior developed in 1961 when both were in
Berlin at the same time. Koczak was insist-
? ing that the Soviet Union planned to go
ahead with erecting a wall between East and
West Berlin. His views, which were included
? in reports to Washington, were at variance
with those of his superior. Though Hoczak
proved to be right, this was only a small mat-
ter of conflict between the two.
Koczak's major difficulty began after he
reported that his superior, who had been
ousted from Poland because of questionable
,associations with female Communist intel-
ligence agents, was making unauthorized
visits to East Berlin to make telephone calls
to Communist -party functionaries in War-
saw.
Nothing was done to follow up on Koczak's
charges and it developed that one of the for-
eign service officers who could have acted on
-them had a brother who was a full-fledged
Communist. At any rate, Koczak was finally
eased out of the Foreign Service, but the man
he accused has been promoted.
Item: The security collapse at the Penta-
gon. Human Events readers are by now fa-
miliar with the story of Robert Arthur Nth-
mann, an engineering graduate given a secret
clearance by the Pentagon to work on defense
-contracts when, in fact, he belongs to the
W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of America. The DuBois
Clubs have been termed "Communist con-
trolled" and "subversive" by FBI Director
J. Edgar Hoover and the U.S, attorney gen-
eral on March 4, 1066, petitioned the Subver-
sive Activities Control Board to order the.
.clubs to register as a Communist-front orga-
nization.
Niemann not only belongs to the DuBois
Clubs, but, as Human Events learned, has
participated in numerous leftist activities,
worked with known Communists, admitted to
having voted in 1066 for Communist Dorothy
Healey for tax assessor of Los Angeles, openly
allied himself with the revolutionary Student
NonViolent Coordinating Committee and pro-
moted the wild demonstrations against LW'
at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles in
June of thia year.
Never I lieless?losepli J. Liebling. the Penta-
gon's director for security policy, says the
Defense Department's screening board "has
determined that continuation of Mr. Nie-
mann's secret clearance is clearly consistent
with the national interest."
.? In connection with the Niemann case, Solis
Horwitz, assistant secretary of defense, re-
cently wrote Rep. Roger Zion (R.-Ind.) that
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mere membership in such an organiza-
tion .it'se Dirlesle C,iii bc d use not constitute
auniene(t. saute; to revoke a security clearance.
..." (What .many now would like to know is
What does constitute sufficient cause?)
Such are the reasons why many believe
that security?or the lack thereof?May be-
come a big issue in 1968..
THE ROSTOW STORY
The Otepka briefs relate an intriguing:
story in connection with the Rostow ease.
According to the briefs, Bobby Kennedy and
Dean Rusk approached Otepka in 1960 about
Rostow, well aware that earlier efforts to get
him named to a highly sensitive national
security project had been thwarted by the
Eisenhower Adminismtion's strict security
standards.
Desiring to appoint Rostow to a key posi-
tion in the State Department, Rusk opened
the discussion by asking: "What kind of
security problem would be encountered re-
garding the appointment of Mr. Rostow to
the department?"
Otepka replied that . he was acquainted
with the Rostow file, and that this familiar-
ity dated back to 1955 when the departnient
was giving consideration to hiring Rostow
as a key person in a psychological, warfare
project to be undertaken by the Operation'a
Co-ordinating Board,
"Persons employed by the project were re-
quired to have a security clearance under
the strict standards prescribed by the United
States Intelligence Board," the briefs state.
"As a part of his evaluation, Otepka at this
time reviewed the State Department file on
Mr. Rostow, the. CIA file and the results of
reviews given to the case by both the CIA
and the Department of the Air Force. The
Air Force had previously made a security
finding adverse to Mr. Rostow.
"As a result of Otepka's findings, Under
Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr., the
chairman of the Operations Co-ordinating
Board, decided that Mr. Rostow would not be
utilized as an employe or consultant by the
State Department in connection- with the
board's project.
"In other words, Mr. Rostow could not get
the necessary clearance under the strict
standards' applicable to the Operations Co-
ordinating Board.
When Rostow was again recommended for
State Department employment, Roderic
O'Connor, administrator of the Bureau of
Security -and Consular Affairs, made the de-
termination on the basis of the previous
record that- "Mr. Rostow was not desirable
for employment."
According to Pulitzer Prize-winning re-
porter Clark Mollenhoff, who unearthed the
contents of the brief, when Otepka related
the background on Rostow, Rusk remained.
silent but Bobby "spoke disparagingly of the
adverse finding that had been made by the
Air Force" and referred to the Air Force as
"a bunch of jerks.".
When it became clear that Otepka would
continue to evaluate the Rostow case in the
same manner as it had been evaluated pre-
viously, Rostow was hired by the White
House, where the President can set his own
security rules.
After being given this job, Rostow was
moved into the State Department for a time
as someone who had already been given a
clearance.
Angry with- Otepka? Kennedy later as-
signed John F. Reilly, formerly a Justice
Department lawyer, to the State Department
as deputy assistant secretary of state in
charge of administration. Reilly's role in
the anti-Otepka cabal is -well documented.
This cabal at length plotted and engaged in
eavesdropping, wiretapping, searches of
Otepko.'s wastebasket and general spying on
his activities in' an effort' to find. trounds
on which to dismiss him. . ;
A former prof es.sOr of international pont-
les at the Massachusetts In.stitaite of
nology, Peostow la a graduate of. Yale sass'.
served in the Office of Strategic Servloas in
World War II. Identified as the author of
a State Department policy paper promoting
unilateral disarmament, trading with the
Communists and a generally "soft-line" to-
ward Soviet Russia and Communist China,
Rostow has come under considerable attack
and was even the subject of a special con-
gressional hearing. In recent years he has
been identified with a comparatively hard
line on Viet Nam. The Oteplca, brief report-
edly does not disclose why Rostow was denied
a security clearance by the Eisenhower Ad-
ministration.
FOURTEEN
BREACI-IES IN SECURITY
The sensational Otepka briefs, whose con-
-tents have been revealed to only one or two
reporters in Washington, outline numerous
cases of alleged security violations. Clark
Mollenhoff of the Des Moines Register has
detailed 14 of the cases which appear below:
1. A foreign service officer who sexually
violated his own daughter but was never
disciplined, and in fact later was designated
a part-time security officer at a post that
did not have a full-time security man.
2. A foreign service officer who borrowed
money from the State Department Credit
Union and forged the endorsement of a fel-
low employe on his application for the loan.
The individual later was given an important
assignment in the White -House.
3. A foreign service officer who admitted
he furnished 18 documents, some of them
classified "secret," to Philip Jaffe, the pub-
lisher of Amerasia magazine and on whom
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there was a considcessble record of Com-
munist activities araei. affiliation. The of-
ficer was permitted to take an honorable
retirement with pension.
4. A security division technician who went '
on drunken rampages at several embassies in
foreign countries and whose misconduct
was condoned and covered up by Reilly. Re-
ports of the misconduct actually were -kept
out of the personnel file.
5. A security officer stationed in Athens,
Greece, who failed to report a large number
of security violations, yet was appointed
deputy chief of the Division of Security
Evaluations at the State Department.
6, A person nominated by President Ken-
nedy for a high position who publicly as-
saulted his wife and threw her clothing on
the lawn, shrubbery and street. The informa-
tion was ordered eliminated from the per-
sonnel record by a "progressive" security
officer who said such details of a public fam-
ily fight had nothing to do with security or
suitability of a high public official.
7. A man dismissed as a security risk by
the Mutual Security Agency and character-
ized as having "a rotten file" who was ap-
pointed to a State Department position and
given full security clearance.
8. A foreign service officer stationed in
Mexico and Caracas, Venezuela, who was
guilty of a series of incidents of sexual mis-
conduct, including ait affair with the wife
of the ambassador of another nation. His
conduct was excused by State Department
politicians.
9. A security officer who withheld informa-
tion from his superiors concerning the loss
of classified documents by an ArneriCAR
ambassador. The officer was not censured and
Was promoted to be a top lieutenant Of Reilly.
10. A security officer stationed in Moscow
who permitted himself to be enticed into
the apartment of a Russian woman, an agent
for the secret police. The secret police used
concealed cameras to photograph the Ameri-
can and his nude companion and tried to get
him to spy for the Soviet Union. He never was
criticized or disciplined.
11. A foreign service officer who admitted
to security officers and State Department
medical authorities that he had engaged /Lk
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