PARTY TASK CARRIES RISK, OTEPKA TOLD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040031-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: July 9, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POST
TIMES HERALD
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CPYRGHT.
Pa t 9' Task
Carries. Risk,
political campaigns.
igaging ' in , partisan, political
;management or in '- partisan
,"specifically,' prohibits 'an
`employe from actively en-
Otepkc Told
advised' Otto F. Otepka, one
of its former top security of-
ficers,.who now holds down a
desk without duties, that-.if
he appears before the Re-
publican Platform Committee
in San Francisco he will do
so at his own risk.
Secretary of State Dedn
R u s k last fall dismissed
Otepka from his - poslltion as
chief of the evaluations divi.
sion of the security office on'
the ground that he disclosed
confidential information to
unauthorized persons.
In a July 2 letter to the
Deputy Under Secretary of
State for Administration,
William J. Crockett; Otepka
!asked permission to accept a
GOP Invitation to appear at!
;'San Francisco. .
Crockett asked the Civil.
Service , Commission foir a
ruling. The -Commission ' re?f
plied that the - Hatch Act
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