STATE DEPT. AID DEFENDS ACTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040124-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 124
• Publication Date: October 8, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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State Mj
Explains,,iY1n,
HSTecret., Papers
to Probers
threatenedwii or
c~wn? Press SeICfI
is ri, Oct.
1 testimony for several mont
Rusk, who ha AR
detailing evidenpp'bout lax s
the cpiittee, ,rho hand deli
Cann.],. appointed to repree
se .4u , ~.,4 . s 4.'uffer the' cons
auen es, .a.i?uc expose.
stale)6 ent employe
appear `peiit'-'dlly for gait
timatum by the committe
Rusk was given a virtu
of State Dean Rusk.
in a direct clash with Secretar
internal security stibeommitte
which has placed the full me
the mystery enVIloping a cee
officials of "tititruths unde
mentdti 'that the subeommi
confidential' in the first plac
It was oi4'the basis of this doe
testimony, Otepkasaid, was t
i Thee only way to rebut the
mittee which appeared tq mak
of testimony before'the subcom
formation to the subconpmitt
committee.
Explains His Action
Senate internal security su
days unless he could' refute all
lose his $16,965 position in 3
He was notified that he woul
formal, written reply to charge
,
viewed as he was preparing his
security ev uation . division
we inter
bureau of. security
Otto 1;'.y pt ka, chief of the
that he was, }ng_,7V_f1i'ctimized.
for defending himsetf 'against
other business, qu c y agreect o
to testify "in the near future." still with the state department
He is expected to appear in an in a desk job.
executive session this week. W h e n the subcommittee
k
a to testify this
Veteran in Security c+ ed Otep
he furnished the
he said
Year
,
,
tepka is thus the involun
investigators no classified docu-
tary center of a clash between ments altho
when asked
"I
,
,
congressional investigators and could not deny J had official
C
S
aucu
upe suss rise
Cory:
He is 48 years old', a veteran "I testified, as always, with
security affairs, who in 1958 the department's peznission
'
s and guidance and the personal
eceived the state department
eritorious service award. A knowledge of my superiors,"
ear ago, he was' recommend- he said. "I did not run to the
F dining advanced executive subcommittee or its counsel,
-aining g in the national war col- J. G. Sourwine, .with informa-
ecurity division of a force built where I had knowledge, I could
p in 1953 by the late Scott Mc- not and did not give 'substan I
eod, who was appointed by tive information' on individua
resident Eisenhower that year cases."
tighten up security proce- Otepka did-testify, however
krom the Civil Service commis- cases. When the superiors wer
security expert with a flaw- had ever seen papers concern
ess record. ing these cases, as asserted b 1
ration took over in 1961, the "This put their testimony i
ecurity division was reorgan- conflict with mine and with m
k
!zed. Otepka, who had been act- official knowledge," 0 t e p
"
Their testimony was
ing as deputy to McLeod, was said.
demoted to chief of the evalua- true. Since they had used' th
tions branch altbo his civil serv- subcommittee forum to mak
ice rating and salary remained their 'statements, I felt entitle
unchanged. to rebut their statements 111
Clash with Cleveland 1 present the true facts."
He dates his troubles froth a ! Initialed by Officials
clash with Assistant Secretary Otepka's rebuttal was ealie
of State Harlan Cleveland over "iron-clad" by subcommitte
appointment of a panel to study members. He produced th
the operations of the secprity documents about which.
program. Otepka held that sev.- superiors had denied knowledg .
undergo a Federal Bureau of officials_ who had denied eve
basis of their records. He was "I did not seek thepermi -
overridden: Sion of my superiors to re t
He also objected to the Ire- their testimony," Otepka sai .
quent? use of "emergency secu- "That would be nonsense. 1,11
rity clearance" for appointive charged with violation of orde
,officials. The law provides that when all I did was defend m -
the secretary of state may uses self."
this process, permitting officials
to serve immediately mile
their investigation . was+ post-
poned.
Under Eisenhower,, -this pro-
cedure was used only five
times. Rusk used it more than
150 times.
Still on I'a at
Callea before the Senate in-
ternal security subcommittee
ion- which- eventually blocked
the appointment of William:Wie-
FOIAb3b
land to a sense v fore n post.
eeirtReleese : CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040124-8
department officials reluctant.
o admit the. communist nature