ABOUT MR. OTEPKA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040120-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 120
• Publication Date: October 13, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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to the and meanwhile has been
telling li 1. the story to reporters.
The pu i ing e, ement is that the subcom-
mittee has not ca fled on Mr. Otepka's boss,
Secretary of State Rusk, for an accounting. It
was announced more than a week ago that
the subcommittee vice chairman, Seator
Dodd of Connecticut, had talked to, Mr. Rusk
and that Mr. Rusk had agreed to meet with
the subcommittee at a "mutually arranged
convenient date."
But Mr., Kennedy disclosed at his news
conference Wednesday that Mr. Rusk has
been ready to testify since August; indeed,
that a subcommittee hearing was''seheduled
for early September but canceled. Which
leads to the conclusion that the subcommittee
is in no hurry to publicize the real facts
about the case, Which in turn leads to the
suspicion that Mr. Otepka is being used by
persons who want to discredit the State De-
partment.
If Mr. Otepka is guilty as charged he
comment on e c e
of Otto Otepka, a minor State Departure t
official, sheds a good deal of light on a sit
uation that far-out conservatives have been
attempting to build into a sort of cause
cclebre. Mr. Otepka, the department's chief
security evaluator, has been charged with
mutilating and declassifying confidential doc-
uments and with giving copies of -classified
material to outsiders.
Mr. Otepka's defenders say the charges
were preferred by the department in re-
taliation for information Mr. Otepka gave
the Senate Internal Security Subcommi tee
in closed session. Mr. Otepka was given until
Monday department to file an answer
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