Otto Otepka

Otto F. Otepka (May 6, 1915 – March 20, 2010 ) was a Deputy Director of the United States State Department's Office of Security in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He was fired as the State Department's chief security evaluations officer on November 5, 1963; he had furnished classified files to the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security. Otepka was later appointed by Richard Nixon to a position on the Subversive Activities Control Board; he retired in 1972.

Background Otepka was born in Chicago in 1915, and graduated from the Columbus School of Law. He served in the US Navy during World War II. After some difficult Senate confirmation hearings, the Senate confirmed his position.

Otepka retired in 1972 and moved to Cape Coral, Florida, in 1975. He was a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.