HEARING FOR OTEPKA PUT OFF UNTIL DEC. 16

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040024-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: October 31, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POST
AND TIMES HERALD
Sanitized - Approved Fe gl fq : CIA-
neariftgr for ~teapka
Put Off Until Deee 16
CPYRGHT
The State Department said,"liars, wiretappers,
yesterday that a hearing forlabusers of government pow-
Otto F. Otepka, dismissed er."
former security evaluator of A Senate hearing devel-
the Department., has been oped evidence that State
postponed untjl Dec. 16 at Department investigators/ had
t h e' request of 0 t e p k a's placed a listening device in
counsel. Otepka's office. There were
Press' officer Robert Mc- '; l s o, acknowledgements of
Closkey related recent devel- false statements to Senators
opments in the year-long about the case.
.case when he was asked Otepka was dismissed after
about charges made by . the charges he gave restricted
Republican presidential can- information to a congres-
didate, Sen. Barry Goldwater, sional investigating commit-
In Pittsburgh Thursday night. tee The dismissal was on
McCloskey did not reply to
.the charges. Sen, Goldwater formal charges of conduct
accused Secretary of State "unbecoming an officer;' Ile
Dean Rusk of having "cod- is, however, still on the Dc-
died" those who investigated partment's payroll, pending
Otepka and called them the outcome of his appeal.
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