Otepka fired, now rehired
WASHINGTON (UPI)
President Nixon yesterday gave a $36,000-a-year job on the Subversive Activities Control Board (SACB) to Otto F. Otepka, fired in 1963 as chief State Department security officer for giving secret documents to a Senate subcommittee.
Asked if the appointment of the controversial 58-year-old
career government employee amounted to "vindication," White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said, "the President felt that because of Mr. Otepka's experience in the field of security, he would be qualified to serve on the board."
But Sen. James O. Eastland, D-Miss., chairman of the Senate internal security subcommittee to which Otepka gave the
He identified the alleged hijacker as Douglas Alton Dickey, 26, who boarded the plane in Dallas. Hoover said the FBI had charged Dickey with aircraft piracy.
FBI agent disarms hijacker after scuffle
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in Washington said one shot was fired in the scuffle with the hijeacker, but no one was injured.
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) — An armed hijacker took over a Delta Airlines plane with 95 persons aboard to force it to Cuba yesterday, but an FBI agent traveling as a passenger disarmed him when the plaue landed at New Orleans to refuel and allow passengers to get off.
Delta Airlines headquarters in Atlanta said the hijacker burst into the cabin of Flight 918 shortly before it was to land in New Orleans.
Brandishing a .22 caliber pistol, he ordered flight engineer Dan Sherill to tell the crew to take him to Havana, Delta said. But he agreed to let the plane land in New Orleans to refuel and the passengers deplane
BELLEVUE, Iowa (UPI) — This Mississippi River town is named after its first postmaster, pioneer settler John D. Bell.
Evolution Of a Name
attorney general, if individuals or organizations were subversive. It has been largely inactive in recent years but several cases have been referred to it recently.
Bell named the town "Bellview" after himself. Later this was misspelled, "Belleview," and still later it became "Bellevue."
As chief security officer in the State Department, Otepka earned $19,000 a year. He remained on the payroll, though at a lower salary part of the time, ever since his dismissal as he fought in the courts to be reinstalled.
vacancy created by the death of board member Edward C. Sweeney. His appointment is for the remainder of Sweeney's term, which ends Aug. 9, 1970.
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The SACB was created in the Eisenhower administration to determine, at the request of the
Remained on payroll
After Rusk fired him, Otepka took his case to the State Department's appeals agency, which studied it until Dec. 13 before upholding the dismissal. Rusk then withdrew his dismissal order and substituted a "severe reprimand" and demotion to a $15,000-a-year nonsecurity job. Otepka then took his appeal to the Civil Service Commission, but failed to win reinstatement.
documents, said Nixon's nomination of Otepka was "a complete vindication of a man who has performed a vital service to his country . . . justice has finally triumphed."
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before forcing the pilot, Capt. Tom Ward, to fly him to Cuba. Ward had explained the plane did not have enough fuel to reach Cuba.
Hoover said as the passengers were getting off the plane, the FBI agent and another passenger disarmed the hijacker. Hoover would not identify the FBI agent.
Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk triggered a storm of controversy when he discharged Otepka on grounds he violated a presidential order by giving confidential documents to Eastland's subcommittee. The information Otepka gave the subcommittee was internal State Department information on personnel.
Otepka then initiated a series of appeals that dragged on through the years and there was speculation that Nixon would give him back his old job as chief of the division of evaluations at the State Department. But Secretary of State William P. Rogers ruled that Otepka had exhausted his legal appeals to regain that job.
Ostepka, whose appointment must be confirmed by the Senate, was named to fill a
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