LYING IN STATE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040093-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 93
• Publication Date: November 12, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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The Department of State must be a delightful
place to work these days. The atmosphere of
affectionate camaraderie and warm mutual con-
fidence prevailing there has probably not been
matched anywhere since the heyday of the Medicis
in Renaissance Italy.
Consider the situation, for instance, in the
office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Se-
curity, Mr. John F. Reilly. Mr. Reilly was going
quietly along minding everybody else's business
when he discovered that one of his assistants, a
Mr., OttotiI+. Otepka, was telling tales about him
to the Senate lifterhal Security Subcommittee.
How did Mr. Reilly find out about Mr. Otepka?
Why by pawing through the contents of Mr.
Otepka's "burn basket" of course and by tapping
Mr. Otepka's -telephone. How else?
Mr. Reilly appears to have been assisted in
this snooping -by another of Mr. Otepka's col-
leagues, a Mr. Lhner D. _ Hill, ' Chief of the Secu-
rity Office's Division of Technical Services. When
these worthy fellows were asked by members of
the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee if they
had ever done any prying into Mr. Otepka's pri-
vate affairs, however, they looked quite scandal-
ized at - so offensive an imputation aq replied
as blandly as you, please that they certainly had
never done anything of the sort.
But the fact of the matter appears to be, never-
theless, that, although they may momentarily have
forgotten about it, they did actually "bug" Mr.
Otepka's quarters in that elegant State Department
building; they now acknowledge as much, although
they insist that they didn't really hear anything
interesting. So, by "mutual consent," they have
been ordered to go on leave until the whole affair
is looked into.
What kind of State Department has the United
States got these days? One supposes that workers
in the Foreign Commissariat of the Kremlin look
over their shoulders at their associates with a
certain amount of apprehension and anxiety. But.
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who would have supposed that Americans in the
American Department of State would need to
employ official tasters when they venture into
the departmental dining room?
This' kind of bugging and spying and tattling
produces no kind of securit all. It produces
nothing but an at osp ere of crippling and suf-
focating suspicion. Decent men should not be
asked and cannot be expected to work in such
an atmosphere. The foreign affairs of a free
people should not be conducted in so malign and
miasmic a climate.
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