AFGHANISTAN STUDENT FACES DEPORTATION FOR CIA DEFIAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100190001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 21, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Deportation for CIA Defial
A Tujunga family Monday, hoped for congressional 'interven-
tion to prevent deportation of a former foreign exchange student
who allegedly opposed Central Intelligence Agency activities
in his native Afghanistan.
John (Abdul Latis) Hotaki, 35, faces banishment from the
U.S. by midnight unless inter-I
culture classes at the ?California
vention materializes. ' ?
State College of Technology at
Hotaki's 23-year-old wife,
San Luis Obispo and at the same
Jana, and, their two children are
time became involved in the At-
still undecided whether to ac-
c ghanistan Student Association of
company him if he is forced to
the 'U.S. ?
return to Afghanistan.
During that time, he claimed,
Mrs. Hotaki said her husband various members of the associa-
received word that he must "vol. tin, were approached by CIA
untarily" leave the U.S. by mid- agents seeking support for the
night. seating of a prime minister in
She said he has been given the Afghanistan who was pro Amer-
choice of either returning to his jowl.
native country or going to some B ecause Afghanistan Is a
ather foreign nation that w ill small country (about the size of
admit him. Switzerland) it has been tradi-
However, she said, the State tonally neutral, said Mrs. Ho-
Department impounded his pass- taki, and .her husband held With
port on June 16, 1963, when he that position.
applied for permanent residency
in the U.S.
Mrs. 1-lotaki said her hus-
band's troubles With immigra-
tion authorities are rooted in Au-
gust of 1957 when he arrived in
the U.S.. as a. foreign ,exchange
student: '
She said he enrolled in agri-
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