Otto Otepka

[3] Otepka was later appointed by Richard Nixon to a position on the Subversive Activities Control Board; he retired in 1972.

Otepka, Uanna and R. W. Scott McLeod, another newcomer in Security at State, were mentioned in a 1954 article in The Reporter entitled "Big Brother at Foggy Bottom."

Otepka claimed he was punished for not clearing names proposed by the Kennedy administration for employment in the State Department.

[citation needed] Also, investigative journalist Clark Mollenhoff detailed the Otepka story in his 1965 book Despoilers of Democracy.

Mollenhoff noted that Otepka was punished and subjected to illegal surveillance for giving testimony to Congress about security procedures at the State Department, as much as for his concern about the rampant use of emergency clearances by the Kennedy administration.

Two officers, including Deputy Assistant Secretary John F. Reilly, perjured themselves before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and had to resign in November 1963.

In the 2021 Documentary, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, they mention Otto Otepka, and referred to him as an intelligence officer at the State Department.

He, according to this documentary, was investigating Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Meanwhile at the State Department, "Otto Otepka had noticed the marked increase of the number of Americans defecting to Russia at the time.

"As a result, he was formally removed from the State Department on November 5, 1963, just 17 days before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.