THE COVER-UP----A NEW MORALITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040039-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: May 27, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON STAR MAY Z 7 196
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RICHARD WILSON
CoverL!pA..
Record Shows Federal Officials Who
Expose Shady Deals Get Bounced-
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has been written large here: ? partment of Agriculture. ? . B
tural' Stabilization and Con- Department official who'madel
Godfrey. Mr. Godfrey is the Communist-sponsored- hospi-I' r
a -Government distipguished. Jerry Jack-is, who revealed to: ? u
service: award to an obscure''' Congress the use of foreign b
servati.on service under Agri- a .record against him. was
culture Secretary Freeman. promoted.
It is charged in the House OttoOte
State Depart-
ka
p
,
of. Representatives that Mr. ment security official, . whofl
Godfrey was given this. award
although in his branch of the committed the unforgivable
Federal service "obviously .a sin of a and eaching on Congress su-
cover-up was attempted in the periors .
E t "' what is wrong with-the inte~i-
e
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miral Anderson,. who also.,,j
objected openly before Con-t!
ess, has long since vanished
fr m the Washington scene.
appointment,-- instead of the
on extended. But it looks as.
Gen. LeMay's service is,,
pidly coming to a close.
The pattern set in these,;
sson taught to Federal offi-
ismanagement, wrongdoing';
bad judgment they would 'O
wise to keep their mouths ?1'
ut ?if they wish to maintain `4
improve their job status:
11~their 'story to Congress, 1
.
s es cas
e
o
entire Bill
The evidence.in'the Billie Sol,.,. nal security system in the, t
in limbo
is
artment
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Estes investigation showed, it
is~. charged, incredible confu- But William J. Crockett,
. sion, mismanagement, lack of'; deputy undersecretary, who
!: records, duplication and" was in charge of the Otepk
"woeful lack of management matter for Secretary Rusk, i
and knowledge of what was, . up for promotion to carce
going on in the Estes case." minister, a :better ? job. Tb
Mr. Freeman so values Mr._ .'Senate Foreign Relation
Godfrey today, however, that, committee is looking' into thi
he confers upon him the high- because the record show
est accolade of his depart- wiretapping, general harass
ment as an example to others., rnent, and, attempts to de
.,__. _ ?L_ < s grade Mr. Otenka after h
testified and supplied records., helped the Senate Interns
x
os
t
itt
p
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ee
to show that the big time- . Security comm
under ' some. of the weaknesses of th
t
er now
Texas .promo
prison sentence for fraud was State Department , securit
November, 1961? This man, N. Gen. Curtis LeMay has bee
Battle Hales', has been denied given' an extension, at lea
Thus the accuser languishes `. of the TFX 'contract, for wn
and the accused flourishes, he thought was a second be
although the. record seems fighter plane to be used- b
clear that Billie Sol".enjoed a both; the Navy and Air Forc
ongress to inquire into the
i v e departments funded
olutely the appropriation of
'
rovide these funds. This is'
ress has the right to kpow
Y--seems to have gotten
odged in official Washington:
oyalty to superior authority 1
.
illie Sol Estes case . an&
tmosphere for the prudent
onduct ? of the public a busi?-{
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