ANTI-RED GROUP 'LOST' IN STATE DEPT. SHUFFLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040066-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 66
• Publication Date: March 18, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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tile House UN-American Activi-
I ties Committee has introduced
a bill calling for a probe of the
State Dept.
"This transfer," he . said,
"shows an arrogance toward
Mr. McLeod's chief Heinen-_ ABRASIVE- EFFECT
ant, Mr: Otepka, already hd But there's' fun the slightest
been squeezed out as a. re51111- doubt of the abrasive effect the
of adverse testimony about the transfer will pavc oin the grow-
department's security program ing list of critieS of the State
before the Senate Internal Sc- Department in the. Senate and
House of Representatives. Two
bills Calling,for an investigation
of State recently have been in-,
trocluced on Capitol Hill.
. the opinions of the Congress entity Subcommittee. .
and our previous legislative All of the six affected by the
enactments dealing with in- transfer are World War II vet-
?ternal security. era?ns, two?like McLeod him-
CRITICIZES POLICY .iself?Were once FBI- agents. 1"Both those bills- prolubly.
"Added to its policy of ap- They i n el ud e Raymond will he yanked out of the
peasing Communism, the trans-
& '
By GUY. RIMY:\ RDS feeof these six security efficers
not only illustrates the depart. the Defense, Dept.;.1-larry'llite. formed of the veteran %retails.:
Cnpyrighl, 1964. N. V. J...,0 I-Arnetlranalso a is ?yell a ? 4 molly sextet's sudden sliitell in posi-'
merit's true posture on the Red .
in apparent reprisal f0 'isue. but its almost uncanny
shitied evaluator of investi- tion 's of ineffectuality.
s
"
Congressional eritiaism 0 ? deviousness in fending off any "i'''' reports; a nd Francis In one fell swoop state has
ata contimieda
it-s security program, the influences from Congress whieht;' ncc, former FBI am-h. tippeci its mitt," he
."
State Department this weel, might change that -posture. ,- NONE WILL COMMENT It has shown how it really
quietly transferred its Cntirt "There has been a constant
six-Man tea in of hardline Playing ? down of the internie
allti-ConirnI)nistS from won-: ce.curity threat during the past j.-,y.,nosl.
in the peronnel SeCUriV 'hree years. Communist sub- la.k.,' i hc fictional James Bond;
as legendary as those
dielel. ' . . ? iersion efforts ' have Continued ,4. - ? . . _ ,
'
.frong and unfortunately our John It. Norpel. former ,FBI
The Drove is almost certain -mard has been lowered and :I gen 1 : and Howard Slim
to in fin me the si Inman') c war
on the ..sr,ruriiy ,:isks,, Issue be..owered and lowered." snot her . Investigator.
.3.eir friends at bodies were buried among the
The order transferring. the Deserii3ed by Li
24.000 employes'.
tween the State DliPartmont.
lix anti-Communists was effec- "incensed" oVer the unexpected'
on Capitol Hill. .
on,rl la'.rana.lers of both parties
. - ve on Monday. It was Seem- shuffle,' non'e of. the six would es Of these, ailzi.t11721,1107nbUo.uSi
''''''s ? , , rglY aimed at plugging the comment on the mapter yester-
7,000 are U.S. citizens abroad
? REVEMdING MOVL ? '-' eaks" from State which, have' daY?
.. . __...,. and about 10,000 are foreigners
7nformeel of the latest de-i 'nand their way recently Co the But it was learned that they: working in 274 ,overseas consu-:
\Peloproent today, U. S. Rent-all. ., . spent the first ttwo days, ox.,,
lar poals and legations and 108
John M. Ashbrook (R'.-Ohio), their assignment in a new 15f-
:Ivelarecl,: ? . ? flee of the big, building in Fog,:embassies.
' LAST VESTIGES
"If ever there was -a stupid? TI'le order removes the last gy Bottom reading newspaperit.
r?nd at. the "same time. deeply ' %Liget, of the tough anti-Red'
, and brochures on foreign comvi
-eves lin g?move at this par- ??i recning board which the lata
leular juncture in its history,i4 aatt McLeod installed in 1933'. to tell them what to do. They;
tries-and ' waiting for, someonei
t's State's decision to banishir, administrator of the 'State, -
:Ix more of its most accotn.;Devartment's Bureau of Secur-- are still .waiting:
The department's official'
it litillea Anti-Conummist carier;IV and?ConsUlar Affairs. ? .
aen. V.- 'Lb Otto Otepka, that Version of the transfer Is that
"the men are on an Important? - Corrtinu j
inakes seven. - ? , ' . ? iuvw 711iCCiA1 ?
ron?.1. hoPper in a hurry," said one.
Loughton. lawyer. and
deputy director of security for Congressional aide, when, in.!
feels about the Reds pinkos-
:Viso Edwin Burkhardt, and sex deviates in its midst hy;
throwing away the lock 511(1
11.osr investigative talents are
key."
The six transferred security
officers ' Were, in cried, the
'hose click." of the depart-,
=IA. They k1iew where all the'
Rep. Ashbrook, a member of
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