STATE DEPT, CONGRESS IN RUNNING FEUD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040076-2
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 76
• Publication Date: January 16, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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committce suspects that it is
being investigated by the state
department in the war between
congressional committees and; The internal security sub-
government, agencies. cnnlmitt.ce has called on him
The war is over the authority: for information to be used in
cl the committees to investi- weeding out securil.-y risks, and
gate the agencies. The agencies some of Otepka's superiors be-
are resisting, and are even gan to wonder if he were vol-
telling their officers and cm-'untecring information that had
ployes not to speak frcely'not even been asked.
when called by the commit- They tapped his telephone
tees as witnesses. and began searching thru his
The possibility that a depart- waste receptacle, known in
ment is investigating a sub- lafn. department gobbledygook
committee or a committee is as a burn bag."
not so far-fetched as it may
;;cad Carbon Papers
seem.- The agriculture depart- meat actually began in investi- '1''. snoopers came up with
? gation of Senator, Karl Mundt n used lypewritcr ribbon and
I R., S. D.] and Ca ?1 Curtis iR., -we old carbon papers, from.
Neb.] during the Senate perma- which they say they obtained.
neat .investigations subcommit- evidence that Otepka had been
tee's inquiry into the depart- writing questions for the sub-
'mcnt's Billie Sol Estes scandal. committee to ask of state de-'
Dodd Tells Sus scion partment witnesses.
p Charges were filed against'
Suspicion that the state de Olepka and he was about to be,
partmcnt is investigating the fired when the subcommittee
internal -security subcommit- came to his rescue and notified
.tee was voiced by Sen. Thomas the department that it would
.I. Dodd [D., Conn.] at the sub- lie in trouble if it,fired him.
committee's recent hearings in.'rho firing was postponed.
the Otto F. Otepka affair. '[h;en stories began to cir-
Otepka is a veteran state do- (ul;sl . that the department was.
partmcnt security officer who crnndu-ling an investigation of
has incurred the ire of some the subcommittee's staff work-
higher-ups in the department crs, and possibly of the son-
who are security risks. Sen. Dodd asked the state
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department about the stories at
the Otepka hearings. The de-
partment denied that it was
conducting an investigation.
But Dodd is determined to'
find out whether the stories?
are true.
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