TRASH OF OTEPKA SEARCHED, LETTER CHARGING HIM REVEALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040128-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 128
• Publication Date: October 3, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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Trash of Otepka Searched'
LetterCFarging Him Reveals!
Sy'-EARL:H. VOSS
Site staff writer
A cloak-and-dagger game
Inside the security offices of
the.'State Department came to
fight today when The Star ob-
tained a copy of the l e t t e r
charging Security Evaluator
Otto F. (tepka . with passing
material on loyalty cases to the
Senate Internal Security Sub-
committee.
Secretaries and other also
elates in Mr. otepka's office
searched his trash for three
months, the letter revealed,
ry Seca ity Specialist, or' ? Mr:
1' !
apeeting the contents of your prohibits d1 clostire`bf
Shea,: Supervise
ensues)
It burn bag on May 29. 1963, a' tion on loyalty and
t
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ga
or,
n e r a I Invest
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B setts s was not available, and t y 'p e writer ribbon was re- ?risk cases outside the lteOYliW
w being delivered to the Mai
d the contents are rep-'. Mr. Otepka is also accused
d
an
re a
d
reduced as Exhibit B. Informa. improperly declassifying' an
(d) While carrying your "mutilating" a confadentia} _
b rn bag and Mr. Traband's to lion contained therein will be document from the State De'
t Mail Room, Mrs. Schmelzer referred to specifically in some partment to McGeorge Butid7,'
w uld mark your burn bag with of the charges listed below." president Kennedy's apec1al
a red 'X' (with a crayon or Details 13 Charges assistant on natloial securitycal mark) and deposit both affairs.
hi rn bags In the Mail Room, The letter then d e t a i l s 13 Anothrr charge>aCCUeert I~.l
m 3437. charges against Mr. Otepka. A
ueettOnai
e) Mr. Rosetta or Mr, Shea, several of them accusing him Onot of preparing q for Mr. Sourwine to ask Stars:
e
t "unbecoming an of-
d
uc
d on one occasion, Mr. of con
Department witnesses In
Mr. 0 t e p k a has been the. ber M
Supervisory facer of the Department of
t cCarthy
,
chief evaluator of security ris curity Specialist, would ob- State." He was accused of pass-,security case.
in the State Department in your burn bag from the ing classified information con-I - The State Department `gave,
both the Eisenhower and Ken -1 all Rc m within five to 10 cerning the processing of secu- Mr. Otepka 10 days to snswer:
nedy administrations. mutes after Mrs. Schmelzer rity clearances of department the charms. then extended this.
On September 21 he was no 1 t it there and would turn it appointees to J. G. Sourwine,~period 10 days. until October
,
tailed by John Ordway, chief 0 o er to Mr. Reilly or Mr. (Da- chief counsel of the Senate In- 13. He is scheduled to be putt on.
the Personnel Operations Divs. I.) Belisle (Special Asais- ternal Security Subcommittee.,a no-pay status Octob r ~.
sion in the State Departmen t. to the Deputy Assistant
that he would be removed fro e e r e t a r y for Security), In
his post In 30 days. Thirtee eir office, Room 3811. (On
charges were contained in M o e occasion when Mrs. Powers,
Ordway's letter. rself took your burn bag to
Outlines Methods t e Mail Room. Messrs. Rosetta;
d Shea picked It up from the.
The letter details how th all Room immediately after
State Department obtained I powers deposited it,
'information on which th ere.) Your burn bag was then;
charges were based in thee ansferred to Mr. Reilly's brief
words:
?, . During the period ' (f) Mr. Reilly's brief case was1
March 13, 1963 to June 1 en taken by Mr. Shea to If
1963, Mr. John F. Reilly, Dep om 1410, 2612A or 3811 for,
ty' Assistant Secretary f amination of its content e.? _
Security, caused the follow ! our burn bag was inspected
procedures to be Instituted: y Mr. Shea either alone or
"(a) Mrs. Joyce M. Schmel ; Ith Mr. Belisle and-or Mr.
secretary to Mr. Frederick oaetti.
Trabafid, Supervisory Perso -~ .'(g) The contents of your
nel Security Specialist, period - urn bags were carefully exam-
cally observed your clasaifi
ed. All carbon paper or copies
;trash bag (hereinafter referr ere read by turning the car-:
to as 'burn bag') which was on side toward the light thus;
the possession of your seer, - llowing the paper to be read'
tary, Mrs. Eunice Powers. Mt . torn the back. Torn pieces of l,
S c h m e l z e r and Mrs. Poore 3"
a p e r were grouped together
were located in the game roc d then pieced together to
and across from one another. ake readable d o c u m e n t e.
"(b) When Mrs. Schmelz rj a-time typewriter ribbons
saw that your burn bag w si -ere also read on occasion.
full, she would ask Mrs. Powe
if she wanted har (Mrs.!
Schmelzer) to take your bu !
bag to a Department M I1(
Room with Mr. Traband's.
"(c) When Mrs. Powers -;
cepted Mrs. Schmelzer's of f ,
Mrs Schmelser would Info or
Mr.'Traband o6Qrai#e .' pproved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040128-4
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