CONFIDENTIAL DATA MUTILATION LAID TO OTEPKA AT STATE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040130-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 130
• Publication Date: October 1, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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Confidential Data Mutilation
Laid to Otepka at State
By DAVID BAItNETT
North American Ntwapaper Alliance
Mate iiepariment, y
officer, Otto F. Otepka, has
been charged with declassifica-
tion and mutilation of a "con-
fidential" report sent to Mc-
George Bundy, a special assist-
ant to the President, by Wil-
liam H. Brubeck, special assist-
ant to secretary of State Rusk.
This k'as one of a series of
.allegations filed against Mr.
Otepka by the State Depart-
ment September 23 as grounds
for his removal as chief of the
division of evaluations :n the
department's Office of Security.
Charges Learned
Mr. Otepka was originally
given until Thursday to reply,
but his lawyer, Roger Robb, has
obtained an extension until Oc-
tober 13.
The State
admitted that the charges have
been filed but has refused to
make them public. The letter of
charges, it was learned, also In-
cluded allegations that Mr.
Otepka had:
1. Breached the "standard of
conduct expected of a State De-
partment officer" by providing
a copy of a classified memo-
randum concerning eight State
Department employes to Jay
Sourwine, chief counsel of the
Senate Internal Security Sub-
committee.
2. Providing a copy of a
classified memorandum about
"Appointments of Members of
the Advisory Committee on In-
ternational Organizations" to a
person not in the department.
3. Declassifying a "confiden-
tial" memorandum sent to the
security department by John
Noonan, a security specialist,
has concerning a "security meeting"
within the agency.
4. Declassification of a con-
fidential memorandum on "Se-
curity Evaluative Services" of
two branches of the depart-
ment.
Mr. Otepka in it security bas;
for burning, used typewriter
ribbons and carbons.
The ?mfidential tags from
tieing- trireat1ie3 v
formation it' has every t
the report to Mr. Bundy, ac
cording to the letters we
found in the bag on 'Jutie"Y
It was from a copy made, on
duplicating machine; with
tops and bottoms of
which contained the securit
classification, out off..'
Both the State bepartmen
and the Internal Security Su
committee have been invests,
gating the departments Bureal if
of Security. ~/~ .?i
Senatgr EastlahC''.' emocrst
of'Xississippi, chairman of the
subcommittee. contends tire" t
the basic charge against Mr,
Otepak Is that he bad co-
operated with the subcommit-
tee.
He said "the powers of Con-
gress are at stake" in the case
and "I intend to protect
Otepka, by every means at my
command, against accusations
which complain, in effect, that
he told the truth when asked
to do so by a Senate subcom-
mittee."
Gross Also to Defend
Re
resenta ive tiros Ae. ub
of "classified" trash placed byl.
verse Information on Employes
of Intcrnptional Organizations
Dealing With Inter-American;
Affairs." I
6. Preparing questions to bel
used by the subcommittee
counsel in interrogating mem-
bers of the department.
Otepka Ilurn-Bag Searched
The information apparently}
was developed by examination)
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yesterday, ire Associated Press
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