63 SECURITY RISKS QUIT IN STATE DEPT.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040043-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: April 25, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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CHICAGO TRJI3UNE APR 2 5 1964 CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
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,63 SECWllTY
RIISKS 11UT IN
STATE DEPT
BY WILLARD EDWARDS
tChicaeo Tribune Press Servlcel
Washington, April 24 -
service were among 63 security
risks uncovered by the state
subcommittee headed by Re
John J. Rooney [D., N. Y.I.
63 `Not Identified
by the House . appropriatio
security, gave. this fragmentar
report in closed-door testimon
deuce against them. None chos
to fight the charges.
Raymond W. Laugel, actin
deputy assistant secretary i
being confronted with the evi
were permitted to resign aft'-'
potential sources of classifie
to secret testimony made publi
.today.
All 63 employes, exposed a
Laugel was not asked
name the employes remov
from the rolls. But he said
of them fell within the ter
can be blackmailed emerny'
agents into becoming spies.
Of the remaining 18, Laugel
said, 6 were psychiatric cases,
5 were excessive drinkers, 3
engaged in "immoral conduct,"
2 were involved with "undesira-. I
ble associates," I falsified his
job auplication,. and 1 was
found guilty of misuse of funds.
Otepka Former Chief
The phrase "undesirable as-
tes" frequently covers
assn iation with Communists.
Tl a three senior foreign offi-
cer were homosexuals, Laugel
testified. Of the remaining 42
acc sed of homosexuality, 15
wer junior and staff officers,
bot at home and abroad, and
25 ccupied clerical positions.
T e office of security, where
La el is the temporary head,
has been under investigation
by he Senate internal security
sub ommittee for more. than a
yea . Its former chief of evalu-
ati s, Otto F. Otepka, was
dis issed by the state depart
me it when he gave information
ab it lax security procedures
to the subcommittee. Later,
Jo F. ' Reilly, the security
chi f, and one of his assistants,
w forced to resign because of
far e testimony against Otepka.
Th latter is. fighting. his dis-
mi sal but the-state department
he ring..,
27 in the Washington office o
'the state department.
Forty-five were found to be
.homosexuals who are regarded
as security risks because they,
63 security risks, Laugel sa
chiatric, etc."
In a partial breakdown of
aces, excessive drinking, ps
perversion, homosexuality, dr
addiction, undersirable also
of executive order 10450 whi
applies "to people engaging
espionage, sabotage, and
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