WAR ON SECURITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040056-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: April 3, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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It appears that the Johnson admin Journal-American broke a red-hot
stration is waging not only a "war:.story that Lt. Col.-Michael Goloniew-.i
on poverty," but a "war on security" - ski, a defector from the Soviet secret
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as well, police, who was being kept under.
1, wraps by the CIA presumably at the
Th. following item from the cur- 'request of th6 State Department, had
fnt issue of National Review gives,.:
?0 ,,;,,,, a.,, -,,,,?,, ,,,,? told 'Rep. Feighan (R-Ohio) what he
es
is proceeding:
"The State Department's purge of
he real security risks,,,~vhich began.
ith the firing of Otto Otepka-who
ictually passed secret State Depart-
ment files to the Senate internal
ecurity subcommittee, it is raid-
s now complete.
on~
knew about spies and .subversiv
the government payroll ... which.,
-corroborated what others had re-
vealed about spies and subversives
on the government payroll . . . State
promptly transferred out the six re-
Maining members of the security
staff assembled by the late Scott Mc-
Leod-who had, with his staff, corn-
"State has kicked out the last six. ? piled a list of 847 security risks in +
lard anti-Communists on its security .1957 who may to this day be on the
taff, in Instant retaliation for, con- payroll of the State Department and
ressional criticisms of State's se- may include some of the people Lt.
unity procedures. It all started Col. Michael Goloniewski has in_
when Guv Richards of the New York, mind."
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