ROSTOW DENIES SECURITY CLEARANCE REFUSED HIM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 14, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Hies assertions he was three he late President John F.
times rejected for. security K nnedy 'brought Rostow into
clearance during President th government from Massa-
Dwight D.'Eisenhower's admin-' og setts where h he Institute of Technoe
istration; g was a professor
. A brief filed in a Civil Serv-' ' 4f )tthough houghts. Rostow
ice case- at the State Depart- said he had
ha -.security clearance since
ment -makes the charges. It was 19 ' "he did not say why he
filed, with a department hear-' ha been given it at that time,
ings"officer last month on Behalf a ear when Harry S. Truman
of Otto. F. Otepka, who is ' wa president.
fighting ':dismissal' as the de- ostow's biographical data
partment's chief security eval- on' Who's Who list him as a
uations officer. sta f member in 1951 of the
"F.rom 1951 onward," Rostow Ce ter for International Stud-
told ?.a reporter when asked Fri- ies a private agency. Emi-'
day about the brief's allegations, nor scholars sometimes receive
"I had,, continuous security sec rity :clearance so. they may
clearances from various agen- ma a use of classified docu-
cies of the federal govern- me ts.iQ:'their studies.
ment." Eisenhower took office- e brief for Otepka was
in 1953. ep rted- to develop an argu-
The State Department said ie t that a "get Otepka" effort
onl
"T
y: ?
here will be no com- ad its beginnings when the
ment from the Department of e edy: administration came
State on any matter involving to office.
the :Qtep}ta case while that case It was said to cite testimony
is being heard." ro Otepka to the effect that
AIthough the brief has never. e Was-called into a meeting
been made public and Otepka's edember 1960 with Dean
? attorney,. Roger Robb, declined us 1, secretary-designate in
to discuss it, a person who has a new administration; and
seen 'it gave a reporter some ob rt F. Kennedy, choice of
details, is rather-president far' attor-
This informant, who would ey eneral.
n?t permit use of his name, T Y were reported to have
confirmed the brief makes the ! Id iepka that ,Rostow would
e p pointed to a State Depart.
reported statement about Ros-
tow and the Eisenhower admin. en post and to have sought
istration. no envy clearance for Ros-
The informant said, however, ' t )w ithout a field investiga-
that he understood the rejec- on.
'I b Lions of Rostotiv for certain as- Ot ka was said 'to have
signments at that time warn ; lk ,and stated he knew of in.
-Rostow, 51, has lnna had I . IAs fo the Eisenhower admin.
for schol
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arly t e bier was reported 'to say he
achievement in international _ _ _
wrltiar in this field. His current rl ov r Jr., then undersecre-
White House post is that of ; t f state, and twice later by
R do - O'Connor, then admin-
chief:, adviser on international Is
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11 forriia,`,said, ."Offhand, I don't
know"-when asked about the
report.
O'Connor, reached in New
York,-said, "I do not recall
this' incident. I just do not re-
member it."
The' Otepka case has been
hanging fire for nearly four
years. ? John F. Reilly, then a
deputy. assistant secretary of.
state; ordered Otepka `dismissed
in November 1963 on grounds of
insubordination.
Otepka was accused of giving
seoret?documents to the counsel
for the-Senate Internal Security
Subcommittee.
Otepka has been fighting the
dismissal under Civil Service
and State Department regula-
tions. In the current phase, the
~i Department's 23,000 employed:
-A Foreign Service officer
who sexually violated his b
daughter but was never id"
ciplined.
-A Foreign Service officer
who' forged an endorsement'
an application for a credit uciq
loan but nevertheless was late
given an important assignnien
at.the White House.
-A U.S. security officer i tI a
tioned in Moscow who wasi ,
never criticized or disciplined
for going to the apartment of
Soviet woman agent where he
was photographed by hidden
cameras with his companion,
who was nude. Soviet secret po-.
lice tried to get him to spy fo' '
the Soviet Union.
brief went to Edward A. Dra- I- -A Foreign Service officer..;',,
gon, a department hearings of who admitted homosexual tent;
ficer, after hearings in closed dencies yet was given superv-i
sessions. Dragon will make . sion of Marine guard personnel)
recommendations to Rusk, and protection of safe combing
If Rusk upholds the dismis-
sal, Otepka could turn to the tions at a U.S. embassy.
('(courts -- a- forum. where many In putting the story in the
Record, Miller said, "One of
of the allegations that have been the root causes of the Otepka!
heard behind closed doors might case was the use of emergency; .111
be aired publicly. . clearance procedure by the' -I.
State Department." 1
For the -present, Otopka still
is on the payroll at $20,585 a
, ~. !. /+; {< ' :l .
year hnt?saire he has he
,
only demeaning tasks at the ?
department: ' . '
Several Republican senators
have evinced interest in the re-
ports of what the brief contains
.and of what Otepka has testified',
at closed hearings. -
Sen. Jack Miller, R-Iowa, put,
into the Congressional Record
a story published by the Des
i Moines Register which said the
The story by Clark MolIen- 1 . AP Wirephoto,
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said the..cases cited includ-
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