'TOP SECRET' JOBS GIVEN 5 IN STATE DEPT.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040065-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: March 19, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

CPYRGHT
Sanitized -Approved For Release : CI
MAR 19 1964
'Political Dynamite'
The Senate subcommittee and
the state department' have
been engaged in conflict for two
years. Scores of secret hear-
ings have, piled 'up 'bulky. evi-
dence on conditions in the
de eepartmeniofficiaa. lsTwv have state
been
IN STATE DEPT Ilstatepartment
t ee1 forced to resign after exposure
it was learned, 'admitting 'that'
166 of the 258 "serious cases"'
were still in state department.
employ and that a -special two-';
man panel was reexamining the"
cases. The report expressed
confidence that all those in-..`
volved had, been adequately:
"cleared" under sect0ty pro-i
cedures.
',r r rtvn t AS~I i ed 'Politically,. ings. Hanes, the last security chief,:
Members of the subcommittee. under the Eisenhower adman
IA are now convinced that the iStration, was 'suspended under
CPYRGHT ~vn{neitire1 ~'tate.department is attempting' the Kennedy administration!
Washington, March 1
? a e investigators learned today,,
that five high-ranking employes 1
of the office of security, state';
department, have been trans-
ferred to a special project de-
'scribed to them as "politically
!explosive."
The five employes in the spe-
cial review branch which spe
cializes in the evaluation of se-;
curity risks were informed that,
'him the hearing to which he. ie by
partment has delayed giving' at
about lax security conditions in
his bureau. Otepka is fighting:
internal security subcommittee Hi
who was dismissed by the state; b
department last year after he fi
with and support of Otepka,st
signment was, in fact, predi th
This quartet was reported to ti
have protested that the reas- ti
worked under Otto F. Otepka,:, c
former deputy director of the;
'nffine of aemiriIu i
of the last four remaining mem- c
,bcrs of the staff which once; S
?fer from the bureau of security u
mittee report until ' after .. the" in April, 1962. -~'
November elections. A Demo-1 Dissolution Is Accomplished i
cratic senator' described. then One member of the special
evidence as, "political dyna- review staff was transferred'
mite." in January, 1964, to illemphis,
Four of the , five employyes, Tenn., as an investigator. All
ow assigned to a "special; others, since January,' 1962.
roject" and therefore removed! have been assigned to routine
rom work in connection with! evaluations with respect lo new;
ecurity risks within the de-i state department employe&
'
artment itself, were original
Tate dissolution of the staff i
n May, 1961, as the result of ajtransfer to the "special prbj-i
iirnntive is
d
sue
ale
in
d
.
,
curre
he security bureau, John W. the ? hostility of his superiors
lanes Jr. in 1961 by noting irregulari-
13ecaxmine Security Files ties in the procedures used to.
This staff was placed under; clear William A. Wieland a
, he personal supervision of state department officer, who I
ndertake a reexamination of sates policy, toward Cuba, both
11 security files of state de- before and after Castro's take-
artment employes
beginning over.
1
,
'ith top ranking officers. The, This was followed in. 1962 by i
th
e gr arming of lag security
t at ----I
persons in a position to "waiver s" by Secretar of j
ake or influence oli
cy were p re S
'potential security riclrc tate Dean Rusk to' high-rank-
t
The new review contemplated HAS MUM uepanrnenL person-i
at careful attention would be . cus This process, skipping the::
tfive
yen to more than 800 cases Lhad customary s been ecu invooyked only five
,covered in the 10.4 tion, on o
of investigators, had hidden sig- t
munist connections of aliens
who associate with state de-
partment employes.
Hidden Significance
The 'transfer, in the opinion
tive last Monday. The "special,
project" was reported to in
volve an inquiry into the com
top-side, including express iii-
rections from the White House,"
they were told. .
- The reassignment was effec-
itheir new assignment was "top"
secret" and admonished not to'
reveal it to anyone,
"This has been directed from.
"? ou"w uuuug me r isennower,
mpleted in 1956 by the late administration,
Ott McLeod, then security In 1963, he was fired for "con'
ief.
thLeod duct unbecoming a state de-1
urged his superiors
the ?partment officer" after he gave,
Eisenhower
dmi
i
a
n
stra
. some classified material to .the:
n to pay particular atten-,I Senate subcommittee., He has,
n to 258 of these cases where
1,
remained on fllaly l
u sar,so? evidence of communist
nections, he maid was sub-' lated In the'state department;;
,
ntial, and the position held' since-he cannot be officially re
the state department of- I moved until he has the tearing,
r was at a top level, He 'which he has, been dame, for,ped against another Alger. ma? s .Pr.: h'..'al : f~'L?,:_. t~{J .
166 Still in Department
hen. the subcommittee.
ned of this report, it was'.
first, ,refused information
the state- department. A'
1 ha nbw' been, delivercd
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