CLEARANCE REPORT HIT BY ROSTOV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040005-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 14, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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WALT W.- ROSTOW
denies security charge
refused 'security ? clearanc
,three times during the Eisell, i
hower Administration.
The report, given wide ci
culation in several Midwester
? newspapers, is, said to b
based on a brief filed las
month by Washington atto
? ney Roger Robb for Otto
Otepka, who is fighting di
missal as the State Depart
ment's chief security office
The brief has not been mad
public, and Robb has dcelino
to discuss it with reporters.
One source who has seen It
however, told the Associate
Press that Robb's brief cite
1testimony by Otepka at
closed State Department' hear
According to the ~accoun
furnished AP, the brief assert
that Rostow was rejected fo
security clearance in 1955 b
Herbert Hoover Jr., , the
Under Secretary of State, an
twice later by Roderic
O'Connor, then administrate
of State's bureau of security.
Asked about this - by AP
Rostow replied: "From , 1951
onward, I had continuous ?se
curity clearance frgqm various
agencies of the Federal. Gov-
ernment."
AP's anonymous informant
said the brief quotes Otepka's
testimony that in December,
1960,. he was asked by Secre-
tary of. State-designate Dean
Rusk and by Robert F. Kenne-
dy to give Rostow emergency
clearance,' .without: investiga-
tion, for a State Department
post. The brief quotes Otepka
as having cited knowledge ' of
certain CIA and Air Force, doc-
umentsf !ch compelled him
to. insist on- a 'full, security.in-
vestigation, ., the. AP source
said.
Rostow subsequently. joined
the White House. staff as 'depu-
ty to McGeorge Bundy, Presi-
dent Kennedy's foreign?affairs-
adviser.
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