STATE DEPT. SHIFTS 6, BUT DENIES' LEAKAGE'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040062-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: March 19, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

WASH 1f U Ut y, i'os?i MAR 1 9 1964
AND TIMES .HERALD
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State .Dept. Shifts 6,
But Denies 6Leakiage'
CPYRGHT
A 'Statd Department spokes-
.man said yesterday that six
staff members of the Office
of Security Affairs had been
transferred to another bureau.
He denied that they were
switched because they had
leaked darta to Congressional
Investigators
The official department
spokesman said the six had
been assigned to "important
jobs in the Bureau of Inter-
American Affairs that will
utilize their talents to the
fullest."
The Office of Security Af.;
fairs has. been a long-stand-.'
ing target of the Senate In-
ternal Security Subcommittee.
The chief of the evaluation
division of the security office,.
Otto Otepka, was suspended;
,from his job on charges that'
,he gave classified information
to unauthorized' persons.
The six men transferred
were Raymond A. Loughton,~
Harry M. Hite, 'Francis V
Gardner and Edwin A. Burk'
hardf of the evaluation staff'
and .Iohn R. Norpel Jr.; and
Howard J. Shea of the. Invest,
igations section.
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