A LIAR AND A SNOOPER REWARDED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040022-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: November 15, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

Sanitized - Appro#M AA 1464ease : CI
turns out that a state department se- attention of the subcommittee. It there
: It. curity officer who was allowed to resign upon, in defiance of the law, dismissed
,a year ago after he was caught lying to Otepka from his post as security evaluator
t :zed Approved Fo
the Senate internal security subcommittee and put him on the shelf. He was charged
has landed back on the government pay- with "misconduct," but the department
roll as a $17,000 trial examiner for the hesitated to fire him until the election was
Federal Communications commission. The out of the way.
Washington establishment takes- care. of Reilly and two other state department
fits own. officials, David I. Belisle and Elmer`
The ' man thus rewarded is John F. ,Dewey Hill, were called by. the subcom-
Reilly, former deputy assistant secretary mittee and asked directly whether they
Reilly and some of his state department I the floor of the Senate and said that he
-Af state for security, who in that capacity had tapped Otepka's phone. At first they'
!drew a salary only $1,000 more than he flatly denied that they had. Only after'
gets in his new post. Sen. Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut took.
+:associates instituted a campaign last year ?au proof to the contrary did Reilly and
to dismiss Otto F. Otepka, the depart- his associates send letters to'the subcom
vent's chief security evaluations officer. mittee changing their testimony'about the
d wanted him to "eavesdrop" on conversa-
In the course of stud in stat
'Otepka,had strongly protested the appoint- tap.
ment of state department employes on an They resorted to elaborately evasive
"emergency" basis, without security clear- phrasing, Reilly referring to a "feasibility
:.ante, to a' departmental committee which', survey" to determine whether Otepka's
was to pass on potential appointees to, conversations could be "intercepted." Hill
United Nations jobs. did get around to admitting that Reilly
`called'Reilly, who denied that Otepka had' mg with a committee of Congress.
sioned to pass on the fitness of those ap_ placed toFbe destroyed by burning-in or
that he, would not have ,granted security mIttee that they regularly snooped thru
Otepka's "burn bag"-the receptacle in
!,clearai,ce to some of the members of the
which discarded classified documents are
departmental panel who were commis-
f that they had neglected to inform the com-
;:mittee summoned Otepka, who testified
e
anent security lapses, t he Senate subcom tions. Reilly and the others also admitted,
Nevertheless, the state.. department was his opposite,;ia liar and a snoop. is wel'
'exer'cised at the fact 'that its sloppy secur-' comed back, :into the clan' and given 4'
chase the policeman instead of the culprit.;.
' ploye . to furnish information sought by ' And still, the game goes, on.'', While'
ongressiorual committees and protects all Otepka is subject to dismissal from the
'Jisu informants from reprisal. government for loyal and patriotic servi
Warned him of the , presence of. security Sen. Dodd said that Reilly and his cot
ues, having committed perjury, then
risks in the department. leag
proceeded to commit further perjury when
s,.. In his turn, Otepka prepared a state- recalled by the subcommittee. He called
j ment for the subcommittee, containing their testimony "the most dismal per=
1,80 c documents which did not jeopardize formance ever witnessed of evasion, double
pational defense in any manner, in order talk, and misrepresentatibn by high gov.
I t4 prove that he had informed Reilly of ernment officials," stating that thruout
II~the.security risks. The United States Code the Otepka case the state had chosen to
I.spccifically authorizes any fed era 1 em-
y prose NAM been brought to we plush post in the burocrac