The Ordeal Of Otto Otepka-William J Gill-1969

THE CASE OF OTTO OTEPKA IS WITHOUT PARALLEL IN AMERICAN HISORY. Echoes of the Billy Mitchell trial haunt the record, and indeed there is a disquieting resemblance between General Mitchell’s futile effort to alert the nation to impending danger before World War II and Otepka’s muted warnings in the 1960s. Mitchell, however, was never placed under criminal charges and certainly no one ever accused him of violating the Espionage Act.— One must flash back to the fin de siecle in France and the ordeal of Alfred Dreyfus to find an affair even roughly comparable in any of the Western democracies. A few columnists have, in fact, fleetingly drawn this analogy between Otepka and Dreyfus. Yet despite striking similarities in what these two men were subjected to by the ruling elite of their respective governments, there remain essential differences between both the historical setting and the separate circumstances which confronted each of them.

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