FORMER JUDGE EXPECTED TO HEAR OTEPKA APPEAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040136-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 136
• Publication Date: October 5, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON STAR
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-
OCT 5 1965
CPYRGHT .
within the State Department,
and others on the Senate ter-!
nal Security subcomtmittee.
At the time Otepka was,
dismissed, the State Depart-~
ment said he had furnished
classified (secret) information'
to the subcommittee, had given'
the subcommittee staff a series.
of questions to be asked of his`
CPYRGHT
i~iecr O pk ~ Appeal
(Judge E. Barrett Prettyman
By the Associated Press
officer in Otto F. Otepka'
Otepka was dismissed Nov. 5,
1963, as head' of the State De-
partment's security evaluation
section, but he still is on the
payroll at $],9,310 a year pend-
ing the outcome of his appeal.
Prettyman is the 'former
senior judge of the Court of
Appeals for the District of
Columbia. As hearing officer, he
a regular department hear
examiner.,
Under normal procedure, an
such appeal would come befor
!within the . State Department
The appointment of a lega
expert outside the departmen
Oct. 11 has been postpone
.again, this time to an indefinit
date.
Meantime, the hearing set fo
appeal of his dismissal, it w
learned today.
would hear witnesses and argu-
ments from both sides and make
to report to Secretary of State
Dean Rusk.
The hearing officer does not
act. a? a judge. The final deci-
sion kests with Rusk, subject- to
a possible court appeal.
The Otepka case involves aJ
dispute between some i persons
superiors and had been re-,
sponsible for removing classifi-
cation markings from some
documents. The official charge
was "conduct unbecoming an
officer" of the department.
The subcommittee in tlurn has
held lengthy hearings including
testimony on O.tepka's charges
that his office telephone was
tapped and waste paper from!
his office -checked by others.
within the department.
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