 Otepka was a Deputy Director of the United States State Department's Office of Security in the late 1950s and early 1960s.This was at the beginning of the Eisenhower Administration and Otepka's "Evaluations" section was faced with Senator Joseph McCarthy who was at the height of his power and making accusations that Communists and Communist sympathizers had infiltrated the U.S. Army and U.S. Department of State.Otepka was assisted by another newcomer to the State Department, William L. Uanna, who would soon head up "Physical Security" at State.