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4-872 (Rev, 7-18-62) . { erivededad eaten . Sor 908 coreee } ates oJ i UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. - Memorandum ro | f The Director DATE: | FROM : NP. Collchon . © Pages Hi265-H1278. Congressman Ashbrook, (R) Ohio, spoke corceralng the Otepka case. He stated "His case gives a penetrating insight Sie jcesonable State Department policies which have found lax security, fevorctisza, subversion, immorality, and dishonesty tolerated if not fostered, while £t the same time honest public servants are given the kangaroo court or .0:cial cold-shoulder treatment. - - - - The vital need for unbreachable - security procecures has been pointed up during the past two decades by many czséS Of cetections, disappearances, suicides, arrests, scandals, and the like, bu: uswhere, rot even in the phenomenal Richard Soyge case, have there been | sitccio7s to rival those of Harold 'Kim' Philby, Gu}Burgess, and Don Maclean 2. =S22700% set forth information concerning activities of Philby, Burgess -ac.sen. Ee pointed out that "/ith recent disclosures in the British press, can remain littie doubt as to who was responsible for the intelligence | cn Washington which s0 benefited the Chinese Reds. Philby arrived in ‘Wes-ing-ca as Britisn liaison to the FBI and CIA and in November 1950, Maclea ==: to TYashington as head of the Foreign Office's American department. Nas Ter: ‘on Post of October 16, 1967, excerpted material from the { xcey Times relating to Maclean's role in the Korean affair." ‘ook also comments on other cases of lax security by the State maezi and the treatment accorded certain personnel by the State r.ert for their efforts in trying to enforce strict security regulations. or0ck concluded "Otto Ctegia illustrates the torturous ordeal that government employees must go through when they challenge the ¢a2l¢omm in Washington, particularly in the State Department. is Stancs aS an indictment of the Siate Department and its policies." i) > HOT BETOnS : $62 ESN 1S B65 In the otiginal of a memorandum captioned and dated as above, the Congressional Record for 2 d. 4 . was reviewed and pertinent items were - marked for the Director's o.tenfion. This form hos been prepared in order nat a portions of Btepy of the original meniorandum. pay te ‘clipped, mounted, and place: in appronri- Pureov s- or subject metter files. - ~ : ? we bee we ene