CIA Reading Room cia-rdp75-00149r000300140067-4: HE SPEAKS TO NO ONE; NO ONE SPEAKS TO HIM

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CPYRGAlpproved For Release 2000/08/27 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000300140067-4 ? ports or communiques wait-~_ .lurisdictlon. He has no secre- Ing for him. There is no mail. , There is a telephone , more ornamental than functional Since it never rings. The sole occupant of the 4 ' room, or a n en s an pur- f it i t t d is `:nameplate by the door as is customary with all high-rank- Around the corner, a name- plate outside Room 3333 reads, CPYRGHT Lary; one w o wore wt h k d i h him for several years has been inexplicably transferred., All incoming calls are re- ceived in an adjoining office by a B1r1 who relays them to him. He never makes - --it from his phone as it may be "bugged." He never eats in the department dining room since it may embarrass lot-. mer associates. He never re- "" '?""'? """ "" " ": ' ? Otepka there. He is the maxi ?ti On one occasion a fellow lated the clubhouse rules. Since that moment, his ca- rear, encompassing 28 years { In government service, in- eluding 11 with the State Dep:trtment, has been !n Jeopardy. His superiors maintain he released classi- fied material without' au- thority, a charge whic he I denies and is fighting. When he allegedly breached the unwritten code of the - .department, he was deputy director of the security, sec- tion, a ranking post of high- ly sensitive nature. He had. 33 employees' under him and his $18,200 annual salary is near the maximum a Ptate Department officer carp earn. Today he' continues. to draw his salary. He' is still :.listed on the roster and the hall" directory as "Chief, Di- employee visited Mr. Otepka in his office. When the also- ` date returned to his own of fice, he was immediately summoned by his chief And ordered not to call on Mr, ' l "Otepka again. from his normal duties, was I, tod to write a handbook on { security evaluation. - Despite the esoteric nature of the work, he was denied access to classified files. His own files were impounded.'. when he was moved out of ? his original office and they were never returned. Formerly, he received a. } small mountain of confiden- tial tt reports from the FBI and CIA daily, concerning Cotn- munist subversion. No long- er do they come to his desk. He has written memo after memo explaining the impos- sibility of writing a hand- book without current infor-.i oration. The memos have not : been answered.. Since he has no secretary, he was given vision of Evaluation, Office l meet was a ruse intended to of Security.". Yet, he has no make it appear he was still duttiles and.;no aasignmenta, a~working, security ? officer, NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNB APR 191964 Speaks: -to No No One' Speaks'~'.-'to, Him' By Dom B'onafede Of The Herald Tribuns Staff/ WASHINGTON. built man with pleasant lea tures and close, popped hair driv