U.S. ENVOY ORTIZ DENIES HE EVER SERVED AS SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404800003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 25, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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'1'1L LE APPEARED THE WASHINGTON POST
ON PAGE__, .6_ 25 September 1981
U.S. Envoy Ortiz
Denies He Ever
'erved as Spy
Reekot
Ambassador-designate "to Peru
Frank Ortiz has categorically denied
allegations that he had served as a
U.S. intelligence agent during a pre.
vious tour'of duty in Lima.in 1969.
At his confirmation hearing before
the Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee on -Wednesday,.. the .30-year
Foreign Service veteran said reports
!.carried by some Peruvian. newspa.
pers were false.
"I wish to state formally on the
..record that any allegation that pro-
fessionally I am anything other than
a career Foreign Service officer is
categorically untrue. The committee
from its own .records is able to verify
this fact," he said. -
He said the allegation:. was first
made when he headed the U.S. Em-
bassy's political section in 1969. "No
responsible person believed those!
charges and in fact they were offs-!
cially retracted within one week and:
appropriate apologies were made." I
Committee chairman Charles 1
Percy (11411.) said Ortiz was one of
President Reagan's "most - distin-
guished Foreign Service career ap ;
pointments.":.
Also appearing was.
? Thomas I
Aranda, an Arizona lawyer named I
ambassador to Uruguay. Both` were
.expected to be confirmed routinely
by the committee and .the full Sen-
r._ :. s?.
ate,
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