PERFORMANCE BELOW PAR, U.S. SAYS OF KOPCSAK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400410003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 16, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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DEC 1 6 1966
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The State Department 'as
'advised a Senate subcommit'ee
that tephen A. Koczak, a For-
,eignService officer, was retired
'because of his substandard
performance record.
Koczak had complained that
the was forced into retirement
after charging a 'superior in
Berlin with security violations
.and that he was denied his
rights In trying to defend him.
self.
But the department said
yesterday it is "convinced that
he has received fair and just
treatment." It also said a deci.
sion to retire Koczak was
reached before he made his
tcharge to the secretary of state,
IThe department's position is
stated in a Dec. 12 letter from
John M. Sleeves, acting deputy
undersecretary for administra.
Lion, to Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr.,
~,D-N.C., chairman of the Senate
Constitutional Rights subcom-
mittee.
Serious Questions
Ervin wrote Secretary of State
Dean Rusk on Nov. 17 asking a
report. Ervin said if Koczak's
allegations were true they zak's April 1963 letter a special
raised "serious questions can. board was convened to investl~
cerning ... , fundamental fair
'play in the department's deal- ed "the
ngs with its employes." Mr. Knczak had not been estab
Steeves wrote that department
selection boards annually review
;the performance record if all '`also
Foreign Service officer? ,nd in 1961 Koczak was ranked , in the
lowest 5 percent of his clr:ss lug Mr. Koczak's assisgnment,
his service is Berlin, and the;
hamiling of his efficiency re
port" and his retirement wasi
Jconeeled in December 1963.
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