OTEPKA SAYS TRUTH PUT JOB IN PERIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040119-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 119
• Publication Date: October 15, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

W MITINGTON POST A. T) OCT 15 1963
`TIMES I- ER ALD
Sanitized - Approved For Release :
CPYRGHT
Pte ka Says
Truth Put
Job in. Peril.
By Willard Edwards
Chicago Tribune Press service
Ificials. .0
sal because he told the truth President Kennedy said last
when questioned. by Senate !week that Secretary of State
Dean Rusk was ready to.tesli.
investigators. fy, The Comnuttee which has
Otto x"lU?liief of the i been seeking Rusk as a witness
division of evaluations, Bureau since July, had just receivedr
a letter from hirii assertingi
' of Security and Consular Af-!1
fairs, filed a form reply to his wiwillinguess Jo testify;
a until he wasprgvided with allj
charges accusing him o con-' the evidence, it hiding private
duct unbecoming `a State De-I1>.aPPI' and memoranda, Bath-
i.nartm nt 'officer. ered in an inquiity into security
-, , ortment.
I hold that when pr~oceduris in s 1W
a= i,111 Anatlicar Jet r .,,,sci;t to
c a l l u on t s ealc he. musta Rush, noting - th esident's;
speak the w 91%4e; he must, statement anti rertewirig the!
not a pt-to pevert or sup_1 demand that ] ee .appear as a'
1, e
press the, truth by concealment,' Otepka's defen statementj
cvasl6u,.* half-truths, or mis-'noted that the Seer , otary ill
i leading: ence," he declared. 1961 had taken acts ientieul
to that for which a faces
Ote a expp is to be ou?te&
discharge
Oc.t 2 . Tie then is expcctedi a Rusk permittg Thomu:~
to ask the Civil Service Coni-I J. Dodd (D-Cann ?, ce Ch
Jimission "for" a hearing, which; man of the Senat~eg Internal
!must be given him. Security Sub mi`M tcc, to e'
In his lengthy reply, Otepka amine `cerlaip dgcu pts in
reviewed ti that Jias4confidence"# CDiti,Gt 12 with
made hi s v the case invol in, M
~etl fry ure
in a clash . ctNvecn he State' Wieland, a State Department
Department, and the Senate. officer.
Judiciary Committee,.ot-ei se-? If Rusk could disclose dot ii
inents from Wieland's securityi
curity rules in the v3p~ rtment.
The Departmen't' claims file to the Inter ital Security
Otepka acted properly in Subcommittee, w ?1 was it im I
proper for Otepka to disclose
providing thq , cuusti mittec.two comparatively,"innocuous
with suggeste uestions to
% memorandums to the `_same
I be put to othe epartnrc nt of-
Subcommittee Otepka asked
A veteran State epartmen i
security officer charged yester-i
day that,be was facing disniis-,
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