CONGRESSIONAL RECORD--HOUSE

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 23, 1998
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• Publication Date: August 14, 1967
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H 10448 -'-' CONGRESSIONAL
The mayor, the citizens council, and gov-
ernment people working with poverty prob-
lems seem genuinely pleased at the results
of the fund-raising.
"These programs aren't going to solve basic
problems. We've learned that only physical
change will do that," said Oottehrer, "but
they buy time for changes that are crucial."
SERVE TO EDUCATE
The programs also have served to educate
some in the business world to the difficulties
of dealing with poverty and the lack of com-
munication between races.
They have not fostered the face-to-face
contact between businessman and ghetto
resident that some regard as an important
basis for rebuilding trust among the coun-
try's split citizenry.
But they have caused many businessmen
to take a personal Interest in poverty prob-
lems for the first time.
PRIDE I8 DEVELOPED
"A real pride in what they've done has
developed in some of the businessmen," said
Aschkenasy.
"We're hoping that we can carry this pride
and involvement past September and the end
of the summer program."
Next summer, the council will probably
concentrate on finding jobs for more kids.
"This was the weakest part of the program,"
admitted an aid to Helskell, "but we got
started very late."
FEDERAL SECURITY PROCEDURES-
AN ISSUE FOR THE 1968 PRESI-
DENTIAL CAMPAIGN
(Mr. ASHBROOK (at the request of
Mr. STEIGER of Wisconsin) was granted
permission to extend his remarks at this
point in the RECORD and to include ex-
traneous matter.)
Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, on
February 16 of this year the Director
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, appeared before
a House Appropriations Subcommittee
and presented, as he does each year, the
most comprehensive report on the opera-
tions of the FBI which is available to
the public. With regard to the increas-
ing intelligence operations of the Copi-
munist countries within the United
States, Mr. Hoover stated:
Though seeking any and all information
which may be utilized to weaken the United
States or implement their plan of world
communism, special emphasis is being di-
rected to such objectives as penetration of
key U.S. agencies, penetration of U.S. indus-
try, collection of scientific and technical
data, collection of data of military interest,
and collection of information of political
significance.
One would think that, in the face of
this increased effort to penetrate "key
U.S. agencies," for instance, such agen-
cies are countering such Soviet-bloc ef-
forts with a tightening of security prac-
tices and procedures. One would expect
Unfortunately, if various cases in the
past few years are any indication, an
apparent disregard of strict security
procedures, instead of an increased
awareness, has been taking place. One
need but recall the case of the National
Security Agency and its laxity of secur-
ity procedures which was revealed by
the House Committee on Un-American
Activities. The vendetta against a con-
scientious security officer, Otto Otepka,
came to light in the Senate Internal Se-
curity Subcommittee's 20-part hearings
on State Department security. The
Otepka case, it will be recalled, disclosed
the incredible practices of safecracking,
wiretapping, and possible perjury before
a Senate committee, to name a few.
Another current case involves Stephen
A. Koczak who was selected out of the
Foreign Service and who claims that his
records were manipulated so as to have
him removed from the State Depart-
ment. Mr. Koczak has repeatedly charged
that the original pages of his efficiency
report were removed and destroyed, sub-
stitute pages forged, backdated, and in-
serted as if they were the originals, and
a statement added that Mr. Koczak had
read the entire report when, in fact, he
had not. The State Department has re-
fused to deny these charges and has al-
ways responded with "no comment."
These details of the Koczak case ap-
peared in the Government Employees'
Exchange, of August 9, 1967, a long-es-
established newspaper for employees of
the Federal Government here in Wash-
ington.
The same edition of the above-men-
tioned newspaper cites the case of an
"admitted homosexual" who was pro-
moted to the position of FSO-1, a high-
ranking position in the Foreign Service
recently. The name of this officer was
omitted from the list of security risks
when a State Department officer testified
before a House Appropriations Subcom-
mittee on March 2 of this year.
From the above-cited cases, the com-
plexity of the security issue is apparent.
It is not just a matter of suitability
standards being violated, but extends to
disgraceful practices to discredit Federal
employees. If Federal employees must use
their own funds to defend themselves
against the vicious, vindicative measures
of Federal agencies, then Federal em-
ployees will soon degenerate to mere
automatons in the face of Federal re-
prisals. Few will relish a 2- or 3- or
4-year struggle against the Federal jug-
gernaut to defend their record.
Another case was brought to light re-
cently through the efforts of Congress-
man RICHARD L. ROUDE$USH, of Indiana,
and which appeared in the July 29 issue
man Venus an alert newsweekly
that repeated warnings by Mr. Hoover in here in
Washington. This case concerns
recent years would result in counter- ,Robert Arthur Niemann who was granted
measures to insure the protection of vital a secret security clearance by the De-
Federal operations. In 1961 Mr. Hoover fense Department to work on an Air
warned that- Force defense contract. Niemann admits
The current, widespread ramifications of to being a member of the W. E. B. DuBois
the Soviet-bloc espionage networks which Club, an organization which Mr. J. Edgar
today extend throughout the entire United
States, have indicated a realistic need fora Hoover identifies as having been origi-
further tightening of our security on the nated by the Communist Party U.S.A.
homefront. While the Communists speak of The exhaustive listing of Niemann's
peace, their intelligence setup is the most activities, in addition to his DuBois Club
extensive in world history, affiliation, certainly justifies our concern.
Auqudf'111, 1967,
The Defense Department has stated that
Niemann's clearance is "clearly con-
sistent with the national interest." If this
is the Defense Department's idea of being
consistent with the national interest,
then it is time to draw up new security
guidelines, review the Departments
security program as the HCUA did in
the NSA case, and ascertain how many
more Niemanns are walking around with
security clearances.
Because of its importance Federal
security procedures should be given a
high priority for discussion during the
1968 presidential campaign. To provide
background information on one case in
point, I place the article, "Pentagon
Security Breakdown" from the July 29
issue of Human Events in the RECORD at
this point:
PENTAGON SECURITY BREAKDOWN
Ever since the Kennedy-Johnson State De-
partment began firing or easing out such
topnotch security experts like Otto Otepka,
veteran investigators In the Capitol have be-
come alarmed at the department's security
programs. But Foggy Bottom, It turns out, Is
not the only place where there is cause for
concern.
Last week Human Errs,' discovered fresh
evidence of still another startling breach in
national security standards, this time in the
heart of America's military establishment.
Within the Defense Department there is the
Industrial Security Clearance Review Office,
whose major purpose is to check out per-
sons in industry or universities working on
defense contracts. But this critical "watch-
dog" agency has a novel approach to security
matters.
Far from being very disturbed by those
with leftist backgrounds, It has consciously
given a secret clearance to a known member
of a Communist-dominated group. Moreover,
the evidence suggests that the Defense De-
partment's security-gathering apparatus is
either completely ineffectual or a victim of
sabotage.
The story of ruptured Pentagon security
actually begins some 16 months ago when
Rep. Richard L. Roudebush (R.-Ind.) re-
quested the Defense Department to find out
why Robert Arthur Niemann, then an en-
gineering graduate student and research as-
sistant at the University of California at Los
Angeles, possessed a secret security clearance
to work on an Air Force defense contract
when, in fact, he belonged to the W.E.B.
DuBois Clubs. The DuBois Clubs have been
termed "Communist controlled" and "sub-
versive" by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The
U.S. attorney general on March 4, 1966, peti-
tioned the Subversive Activities Controt'
Board to order the DuBois Clubs to register
as a Communist-front organization.
Fifteen months after Roudebush had
queried the department came a supposedly
complete reply. A few weeks ago, the Indiana
solon received from the office of the assistant
secretary of defense a letter dated June 29,
1967, signed by Joseph J. Liebling, director
for Security Policy. The Liebling letter read;
in part:
"In March 1966 Mr. Nlemann's statements
regarding his recent joining of the DuBois
Club [sic[ of America were brought to the
attention of the Defense Department. Be-
cause be held an active Department of De-
fense secret clearance, the chief, Defense In-
dustrial Security Clearance Office, initiated a
complete background investigation of him.
Upon completion of that investigation, his
case was referred to this office for determi-
nation of his eligibility for clearance....
"The Screening Board of this office, having
considered all the available information, now
has determined that continuation of Mr.
Niemann's secret clearance is clearly con-
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