HILL CHECKS STATE AIDE'S OUSTER TALE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400410005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 6, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Hill. Cheeks
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.State''Aide'
ioluster Tale,
ena a subcommittee 1ss
checking into allegations by a,
foreign service officer Stephen'
A. Koczak, that he was forced'
Into retirement after charging'
his unidentified superior with; '
security violations.
Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. (D-
;N.C.), Chairman of the Senate:
Constitutional Rights Subcom
mittee, asked Secretary of l
;State Dean Rusk to invest'-)
gate the matter.
The complaints were-lodged!
by Koczak, a foreign service;
officer for 20 years, who was.
'placed on retirement in Janu-~
'ary of this year under'the De-,
,partment's "selection out" pro
cedures.
A Subcommittee aide said,
that' Koczak, in 1961, while
serving in West Berlin, charged{
his superior with placing tele-f,
phone calls to Warsaw fromi
East Berlin to avoid possible; monitoring by th? tr 1 In-!
The superior put derehitory'
statements about Icoczak in
,the foreign service office's ef,'
ficiency reports, the Subcom.
Lmi~t-",.was told.: !.~ Hs 4t ...:; .
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