ALLEN-SCOTT REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040070-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 70
• Publication Date: February 24, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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By ROBERT S. ALLEN and PAUL SCOTT
FLOODED WASHROOMS
The august State Department is having a peculiar plumbing
problem - clogged toilets.
Reason is they are being used as wastebasket disposals.
This unusual practice is a direct consequence of the long-
raging case of Otto Otepka - the western security official sus-
pended for giving information to Senate investigators. It has been
revealed that in an effort to, get evidence against Otepka State
Department officials tapped his phone and closely scrutinized the
contents of his wastebasket.
This disclosure apparently has sent a tremor of fear through-
out the State Department, and wastebaskets are being surrepti-
tiously emptied in toilets. The result has been clogged pipes and
flooded washrooms.
To halt .this practice, the Department has posted a printed
notice on bulletin boards reading:
"To All Employees: Subject: Disposal of Paper.
"There have been serious floods of restrooms which, General
Services Administration has advised, have been caused by the dis
posal of paper in both toilets and vrinals. This practice should be
`,discontinued. and trash receptacles used for the disposal of paper
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