OUR SECURITY WEAKNESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040108-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 108
• Publication Date: October 31, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

Sanitized -Approved FrorrRe e Mato : CIA-
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What I Believes
CPYRGHT
By SENATOR BARRY GOLDWATE,R.
-DELAYED and faltering
admission by the pentagon that an
Army sergeant had sold vital U.S. se-
crets to Soviet Russia before he com-
mitted suicide last Summer points up
one of the great security weaknesses of
our time-the obdurate
refusal of some key
personnel In g over n -
m e n t t o acknowledge
the existence of Com-
m u n i s t subversion in
this country.
As a result, countless
contacts by Federal se-
curity workers with
suspect persons and
activities, which any-
where else in the- world
would be thoroughly
investigated, go unchecked.
The sergeant, Jack E. Dunlap} of
logalusa, Louisiana, had been on as-
signment with the top secret National
Security Agency and was found dead of
carbon monoxide asphyxiation in his
automobile near his home in Ferndale,
Md., last July. 1 .
At the time, the Defense Department
denied that security matters were in-
volved in the suicide. Early in October,
however, Wad* ngU Evening Star
writer Earl Voss reiiorted Dunlap had
soid vital U.S.4 a infortttation, photo-
graphs and other secret data to Rus-
sian agents fi* $50,000.
Dunlap emitl his life because he
feared his a r l v t t i e y had been dis-
covered, Voss t3te. Not iintii confront-
ed with the V'$S article did Defense and
White House irrkesmen admit the se
curity leak hac occurred.
Although : reason was given for
the long bl*kI it en 'the case, it has
been speculat1 et the 0eadirtg action
spokesmen were pa1Rting a4 glo~i-lltig >aiiir
cure or Kussia?s gong, tn~qong 1L
buying our top secrets well could, b&yV
But even More Important is the pna. ;
sibility that there may bap others
ii'~tt?goe
~
ernment equally'as dangerous asDiitltap
to American security. wha` may :hot be
The far left consistently has' toug'I t '
attempts to question the loyal$y pf Fed>1
Walter Reuther,. boss of `the :United
Auto Workers xlnfon, for many *earr a i
leader in left-wing -Causes, sent along,
letter to Attorney General Robert Ken-
nedy early In 1961 asking that Commu-.
nist subversion in this country be played
down b caa. 9 it provides the "radical
Other leftist spokesmen and groups,
I n c l u d i ?ri g.Amerlcana for Democratic
Action, of which, Regther Is a board
member, continuously echo this fear.
More than $0 former or present mem-
bers of ADA now occupy, high positions
in the New Frontier and'speak for it in.
Congress. Their influence on the Ad-
ministration is seen by many as rG-.,
sponsible for this laxity, in protecting
our security.
The Dunlap case is but one of he
The State Department has its chief
telling a Senate subcommittee ? about
persons of doubtful background.in Fed..
rral employment, thus contradicting
e expect to be endangered - by such
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