OTEPKA FIRED BY STATE; SENATE PROBERS PROTEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040102-2
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 102
• Publication Date: November 6, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POST AND NOV 6 1963
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'Ote ka Fired by State;
Senate Probers Protest;
Associated Press
OTTO F. OTEPKA
. fired by State Dept.
By Vincent J. Burke
The L "s ge
Otto ~?l Opka, 48, one of
the State Department's top se-
curity officers, was fired yes-
terday for giving confidential
Department information to
the Senate subcommittee on
internal security.
The decision, presumably
made with White House ap-
proval, was promptly de-
nounced by Sen. Thomas J.
Dodd (D-Conn.), a member of
the subcommittee. Dodd said
he would ask Sen. James East-
land (D-Miss.) td call , an
"emergency meeting" of the
Senate's Judiciary committee
"to consider the implications."
Eastland is chairman of both
the subcommittee and i t s
parent, the Judiciary Commit-
tee.
Under regular procedures
Otepka will continue to
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