STATE DEPARTMENT SHIFTS 6 OTEPKA CASE FIGURES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040048-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: April 14, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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6'0.tepk.a'Case' Figures Ii
a e Department sources
confirmed last night that six
security officers involved in
the Otto.F. Otepka case have
been transferred to new jobs
within the Department but
said this action did not repre-
sent any demotion for the six.
Otepka, former chief se-
curity evaluator for the De-
partment, wag fired for in-
subordination. H e has a p.-
pealed the action.
Otepka was suspended Sept.
23, 1963, and charged with con-
duct "unbecoming an officer
of the Department of State"
by allegedly h a v i n g given
senate n erna security
committee. He was dismissed
from his $18,240-a-year post
Nov. 5 when the Department.
upheld the charges against
him.
The six State Department
men, all of them security
evaluators, were transferred
from the Bureau of Security
to the Bureau of Inter-Ameri-,
can Affairs, where they have
to carry out a "top secret job."
The. six are John F. Nordel
Jr., Harry M.. Hite, Raymond
Laughton, Billy N. Hughes,.
John Schay, and Francis V. .
classified documents to the i Gardner.
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