REILLY ADMITS HE DID NOT COOPERATE FUILY WITH COMMITTEE IN OTEPKA QUIZ

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040083-4
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: January 3, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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I apologize, I regret it," Reilly not having testified truth-
With Corn, lan !*I, -,LLP
John F. [icil]y, w to recently
In-signed as Deputy Assistant
Secref.aryof State for Security,
has denied lying but testified
1 he did riot. cooperate fully at a
to Internal Security Sub
(`)ilcomeamittee hearing.
The Subcommittee made the
t.r anscrilit. of a Nov. 15 closed
hearing public yesl.erday, in
another sequel to the contro
V; rsy over the dismissal o
011o I'. Otc'pka, a State De
p; ?'tcnent security officer.
Reilly was called.hef-ore the
S;bcm m,ittcc lifter admitting
'ii. a ,,tatcment on Nov. 6 that
the had ordered a listening do
vice installed on Otepka's tele
phciri ,, last March. He had de
nicd it, in sworn testimony t
the Subcommittee on Aug. 6
! Although insisting he liadn'
liectl. to the Subcommittee a
1.44, Aug. 6 hearing, Reilly
aeknow)cdged under question
leg by' Scns. John L. McClel
l,an (D-A"vir.), ' and Thomas J
P odd (D-Conn.), that he had
net. answered questions fully,
"I didn't :cooperate as full
i as I mi>aht have, And. ps I play
"You are giving highly tech-
nical explanations of why you
didn't tell the committee the
truth," McClellan told him.
The key question at the
rig. 6 hearing was: "Have you
ever engaged in or ordered
the bugging or tapping or
otherwise compromising tele-
phones of private conversa-
tions in the office of an em-
ploye of the State Depart-
ment?" .Reill.y's answer was,
"no, sir."
Rcilly's explanation at the
Nov. 15 hearing was that a1=
though he had a listening de-
vice attached to Otepka's tole-,
phone, it" hadn't worked and
had been removed without'
any conversations being inter,.
cepted.
Asked if a 'telephone is not;
compromised when . a device
or connection is used by'
frilly, of bcnig evasive anci un-:
cooperative and of falling
back on technical excuses and
alibis, Dodd, who presided,
also was caustic in his corn
nlents.
The State ' Department
placed Reilly on administra-
tive leave shortly before the
Nov, 15 hearing. He resigned,
last month. -Otepka, who was;
the Department's chief ; ecu-
rity risk evaluator, has ap-i
pealed his dismissal. He was`
ousted on a charge of supply-
ing the Subcommittee's chief
counsel, J. G. Sourwinc, with
confidential information from
employe security files .
which conversations may be'
intercepted by an unauthor-
ized person, 11ci11y replied:
"Not in -my mind, and not,
as I ,understood the question,;
that day." '
.McClellan . accused him of
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