' TOP FIGURES IN OTPEKA 'BUG' RESIGN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040089-8
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 89
• Publication Date: November 19, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POST AND NOV 1 9 1963
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CPYRGHT
"To ores
In Otepka
Bug' Resign,
device was installed, though
he acknowledged. he was in-
formed about the installation
later.
"The inquiry is continuing
as to the facts and circum-
stances surrounding the testi-
mony. of " Belisle," Phillips
said, in response to a ques-
tion.
He iadded that with Reilly's
resignatjoi Belisle now is
acting beputy Assistant Secre-
tary"for Security.
Otepl~a, charged with
having turned over confiden
tial security material to the
Senate Subcommittee without
authorization, has appealed
his dismissal. The State De-
partment now will prepare a
list of officers and Otepka
may choose one to act as
hearing officer of his appeal.
Belisle was not sent on leave last week because he was absent when the listening
John F. Reilly, Deputy As-
sistant Secretary of State for
Security, and Elmer D.; Hill,
head of the Division of Tech-
nical Services in Reilly's
office, have resigned, the
State Department said yester-
day.
"The Department has ac-
cepted their resignation to be
effective at an early date,"
press officer Richard I. Phil-
lips said.
Reilly and Hill were -sent. on
"administrative 1 e.a v e" last
Tuesday, Nov. 12, after ? they
admitted they installed a lis-
tening device in the office of
Otto F. Otepka, a security
officer dismissed by the State
Department for insubordina-
tion.
Reilly, a prominent figure
in the controversial Otepka
case, first denied that a "bug"
was installed in Otepka's
office when the S e n a t e
internal Security Subcommit.
tee asked about it. Hill, an
electronics expert, and David
1. Belisle, Reilly's special as-
sistant, have also denied the'
charge, but later all three
wrote letters to the Subcom-
m it t e e admitting that the
device was installed.
Phillips, in announcing that
Reilly and Hill have resigned,
said that their resignations
will be effective 'probably
sometime next month."
Asked why the date was un-
specified, he said that "it is
customary to allow certain
lengths of time to wind up of
fairs."
Reilly and Hill are not on
leave any more, Phillips ex-
plained, but. they are "not
engaged in ariy duties in the
Department."
Phillips declined to answer
other questions, including
whether they were, asked to
resign.
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