MORE DATA ON OTEPKA CASE AIRED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040138-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 138
• Publication Date: August 19, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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More e Fate Mildi ,in
P.
in-fighting in the case of Otto
Otepka, its top security officer,
was revealed in another tran-
script of testimony released
today by the Senate Internal.
Security Subcommittee.
It showed that John F. Reilly,
who was Otepka's superior,
testified that 0tepka seemed 4
unbalanced and "emotionally l
overwrought."
The testimon?v was given in a
May 23, 1963 hearing in which
the subcommittee sought to find
out why Otepka had been
stripped of all authority as chief
of the security office's evalua-
tion division. This was done, the
subcommittee has disclosed,
after Otcpka contradicted the
,testimony of Reilly and others
`regarding laxity in the depart-
ment's security procedures.
Reilly's testimony led sub-
`com,mittee counsel Jay G.
S o u r w i n e, the transcript
showed, to comment:
"This is the first suggestion
we have heard from anyone
.that Mr. Otepka was mentally
unbalanced. But I have been
wondering if that wasn't about
due. How long have you noticed
this mental unbalance?"
Reilly, the transcript showed,
said he first noted it in a four-
.hour session with Otepka after
he (Reilly) became head of the
security office.
Otepka, in his testimony, said
he never talked with Reilly
more than 'two hours, and was
never informed that he was
considered emotionally unsta-;
able. He also testified that lie
iconsidered a reduction in force
din the office as aimed at de-
priving him of his functions.
Reilly was accused by the
;subcommittee of giving mislea&
ing testimony. He left tile
department and is now withi
another government agency.
Otepka was ordered dismissed
nearly two years ago on
charges , of having given thel
subcommittee classified infor-
mation. His appeal hearing is
scheduled for Oct. 11. -.
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