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STATE DEPARTMENT SECURITY-1963-65
THE WIELAND CASE UPDATED

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE
ADMINISTRATION OF THE INTERNAL SECURITY
ACT AND OTHER INTERNAL SECURITY LAWS

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

PART 1

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DIVISION

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

JAMES O. EASTLAND, Mississippi, Chairman

SUBCOMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE INTERNAL SECURITY ACT AND OTHER INTERNAL SECURITY LAWS

RESOLUTION

OCTOBER 8, 1964. Resolved, by the Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, That testimony heretofore taken by the subcommittee in executive session from the witnesses named below, as part of the subcommittee's investigation of security in the State Department, and not previously made public, is hereby authorized to be released from the injunction of secrecy, printed, and made public.

Frank L. Auerbach

David I. Belisle

William O. Boswell
Edwin A. Burkhardt
Abram Chayes
William J. Črockett
Victor H. Dikeos
Allyn C. Donaldson
Frederick G. Dutton
Thomas Ehrlich

Wilson C. Flake
Richard Frank

Col. George W. French, Jr.
Henri G. Grignon
Elmer D. Hill

Harry Hite

Stanley E. Holden

Harris H. Houston

Robert D. Johnson
Frances Knight
Eugene Krizek
John S. Leahy, Jr.

Seymour Levenson
Raymond A. Loughton
J. Edward Lyerly
Robert J. McCarthy
Charles A. Mace

Allen B. Moreland
Lawson A. Moyer, Jr.
Jack Norpel, Jr.
Otto Otepka

George James Pasquale
Richard I. Phillips

John F. Reilly
Joseph E. Rosetti
Hon. Dean Rusk
Abba P. Schwartz
Terence J. Shea
Charles Shinkwin

Frederick W. Traband, Jr.
Thomas Valenza

William Wieland

Hessel E. Yntema, Jr.

RESOLUTION

JUNE 2, 1965.

Resolved, by the Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, That testimony taken by the subcommittee in executive session from William J. Crockett on May 4, 1965, as part of the subcommittee's investigation of security in the State Department, and not previously made public, is hereby authorized to be released from the injunction of secrecy, printed, and made public. JAMES O. EASTLAND,

FOREWORD

This is part 1 of an extensive series of hearings held during 1963, 1964, and part of 1965 on "State Department Security." The subject matter of these hearings included various subtopics, necessarily intertwined. There are a number of clearly defined areas of testimony which can be presented separately, and other instances in which testimony covering two or more subjects can be combined with satisfactory coherency. Because of the great volume of this hearing record, covering nearly 22 years, it has been decided to organize the testimony for release by subjects or areas.

All the testimony will be released, except for a very few instances of deletions for security reasons. (Any such deletions will be indicated in the printed record.) But where a witness testified on several subjects, or in several areas (as was frequently the case) the testimony may be printed in two or more different volumes. So far as possible, all the testimony on a particular subject will be printed in a single volume.

This volume is subtitled "The Wieland Case Updated" because the Internal Security Subcommittee previously conducted and published a series of hearings in 1961 and and early 1962 on the same subject matter. Both deal with William Wieland, his activities as a State Department official both before and after Castro's takeover of Cuba, and questionable security practices involved in his case.

Subsequent parts of this series will include testimony on other phases of the investigation, subject by subject. These volumes will be released successively, as rapidly as possible.

Much has appeared in the press about Otto Otepka, the State Department's top-level security officer now awaiting a hearing on his appeal from an order for his discharge from the Department, based on charges he was guilty of "conduct unbecoming a State Department officer" in furnishing information to the subcommittee. Testimony by Mr. Otepka is included in this volume, but only that portion which relates to the subject matter of this volume. Other testimony by Mr. Otepka, and testimony of others bearing on the Otepka case will be printed in other volumes.

Wherever any testimony has been excerpted, for publication in another volume, this is indicated by a row of asterisks. However, nothing has been taken out of context.