INTRIGUE IN OTEPKA PROBE INCREASES, TESTIMONY SHOWS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040081-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 81
• Publication Date: January 7, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

E.ALIm'XORE SON, JAN 7 1964
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in the struggle between the State valor Dodd (D,, Conau.I, 1 u,~n '' ial:cn r.nt. in the bu cing of
Department and the Senate In- s bcommitlcc chairman, Bill a soil) vpka's pI~n'rr riot Iiicrefore re~
tea?nal Security subcommittee overt stifled that actual conversatir isio rdrd ini orm;ltioa he hail bee
} d been intercepted as a res dt ccu by iteiil.;; as
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the Otepka case. ,
J. G. Sourwine, the suheornmit the tapping of Otcpka's ice-~? ticb lip dirt 11()j, frel he had to
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cilly, who denied the tap is d: ,
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nves? orked or had been put into h-1l- ruska (R.. Nob. f asked the wit
ti_ated by the Stale Department's:
David I. Belisle, a Stale De-
partment witness, denied having
anything to do with the alleged
specializes in probes. tcpka's phone might not It, vr+s rr(t un my consulrred Iudgme.
hlis only information in this re- orked drew an angry respo sc.[ did not have first-hand inform
gaid, Belisle explained, was Sour- om Senator McClellan (D., Ar ?)'I on of it, and Iherclore that i
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s personal statement that he "I. don't believe this dub! us'', hy't answered it thou way,"
had been questioned by the 1+131.. ery that you tapped it and (rut ih?uska rc.toricd by saving:
13e,t as for a State Department information' because I ou.il,,ink that explanation is an a
investigation of Sourwine and his eren't capable of tapping 'it1I -omit, to this ivltole comrnittec.
,i ff?-Belisle said he never heard roperly," he told the witness. 4! Belisle said the wiiclap ha
it even discussed. I can't understand' hell rat taken off Otepka's telephoi
This latest whiff of espionage 1; .curily officers of the State c-{~ ftcr a check had been made
;rid counter-espionage between artment in that business not c?I in discarded [rash Ot.epka ha
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burn bags
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two rival Government units cane g capable of putting on a s rc- j laced in
ssful wiretap on a telephone inJ rcpartnlent uses' for disposal
ias the subcommittee kept up its
teir own department. It doe it . ecurity documents.
pressurc in the Oleplca case
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ake sense to me. ,
' Time burn bags contained ca
Otto F. OLepk~a, the cleparl Belisle, who still Is an crn- I Ion papers showing uestiol
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for having leaked Iitlnll red under lengthy cross-ex m- n Sour wines u}n ln(er i vga
ation that he was "amplifyii g" ig Reilly and Belisle. The eva
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about his superiors to the Seu.ate1 ut not "correcting"' tes
tim ny ations officer had been feudi
subcommittee and for having sug-,l a had given the, subcommi ee ith his superiors over what
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gcsted questions that SOUt'wine;l .July.
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While Otepl{a continues to draw; ig to the record he answe ed y the Communist-hunting S(
his appeal, two State Department'(
mat who investigated him have
resigned . their posts. They are,
Joint Jr. Reilly, former leputy .
assistant secretary for security
and Olcpka's one-time immediate
superior, and Elmer Dewey Hill,
chief of the technical services di? {
vision under Reilly.
Reilly quit last November after.
testifying, th,aL all attempt had
been made o "hug" Ot:epka's tel-
ephone. He said his earlier testi-
mony might have misled the sub-
cc'mmittce,into thinking no effort
had been made to intercept Otepo
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" : ' Also Takes Stand
IThomas Ehrlich, .a Sta'e T>e-
1poetment legal adviser, also took,
the witness stand November 14i
to teill how Reilly, Hill and Del-'
,isle prepared statements "ampli-I
!lying" their earlier testimony at,the request of Dean Rusk. see-1 of State, and George W.
Ball, Under Secretary of State.
Ehrlich related that. Rusk and
.,Ball indicated a desire that state-
ments he prepred before No-
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vember 5, the date on whichial
possibility of perjury was men-
tioned in an exchange on the Scn
ate floor between Senators Dodd
and Thurmond (D., S.C.).
But he said the amplifying let-
ters sent to the subcommittee
were not prepared until a few
hours after the Dodd-Thurmond
colloquy.
,Ehrlich said he and Ball went
to Rusk's office where the Sec
rotary of State glanced at the
statements and then handed them
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