OTEPKA CASE SAFE-CRACK TESTIMONY IS RELEASED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040144-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 144
• Publication Date: August 8, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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State Department are not all
diplomatic:- They include a
high-speed drill, a pharyngo-
scope and a fouled-up wiretap.
The lesser-known facets of
the Mate Department opera-
tion Were revealed in'the latest
installment of the Otepka se-
ries furnished by the Senate
internal security subcommit-
tee.
The subcommittee released
yesterday the second part of
closed-door hearings on Its in-
vestigation into the case, of
Otto Otepka, the former top-
r level security officer in the
State Department who was dis-
ly micrnri
Is charged with "conduct un-
becoming a State Department
officer" because he gave` in-
The Otepka case is part of
a broad subcommittee study
of State Department security:
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Stanley E. Holden, chief of in Frankfurt, was told by
the technicl security branch, Reilly to bug Otepka's phone.
) to his safe. ry Shneider, "one of our men
.v
ment security officers tapped former security engineer, testi-
Otepka's phone and broke In. fied that Holden told him Jer-
facts on the Otepka case. It The tap on Otepka's tele
permit use of a pharyngoscope,
a medical instrument," his su-
perior said.
Holden explained that a
pharyngoscope Is used by doe.
tors to look down a throat,
but in the art of safecracking
-in the words of subcommit-
tee counsel Jay Sourwine-It,
"is used to see how tumblers.'.
are' falling so that you can
line up the tumblers and open
up the safe."
After Waller cracked the
s a f e, the combination was
passed on to John F. Reilly,
the chief security officer, who
had requested it.
Wiretape Is Fiasco
The whole episode puzzled
Sen. Thomas Dodd, (D-Conn.),
the subcommittee chairman.
"It seems to me you were go-
ing at pretty great length to
get at a safe in your own de
partment," Dodd said. "What',
was to prevent Mr, Reilly'froml
saying to Mr. Otepka; "'I want,
you to open your safe and I
want to see the contents of
The latest volume_ of testi-I Mr. Holden: "Nothing, not a
mony does not reveal any new thing, sir."
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