JUDGE CLAMPS LID ON CIA LIBEL CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400180046-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: June 2, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Judge Clamps Lid
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The case of the Central In-1Iow emigres about Heine.
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"National Security Council
Directive No. 2" was submit-
ted for Washington engineer
Juri Raus, who on CIA orders
called a fellow Estonian emi-
gre a Soviet spy in order to
discredit him in emigre cir-
cles. The other man, Eerik
Heine, now a Canadian, sued
Raus for slander.
Heine's lawyers had claimed
the CIA had no authority to
act within the United States.
In reply, Raus's lawyers sub-
mitted a memorandum :to the
court this week. Citing the
CIA's statutory duty of "pro-
tecting Intelligence sources
and methods from unauthor.
ized ' disclosure." The memo
said this duty was dieehara -T
y operative
who fingered an alleged Soviet
spy virtually vanished from
public view yesterday.
It .was disclosed that a se-
cret National Security Council
directive was submitted Tues?
day to Federal Court Chief
Judge Roszel C. Thomsen in
Baltimore and that he locked
Its in his safe and gave the
opposing lawyers access to it
but ordered them to refer to
it only in papers placed under
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also charged it with "such ad.!
ditional services of common
concern as the NSC deter.,
mines can be more effectively
accomplished centrally."
"Under this specific grant
of power" NSC Directive No.
2 was Issued, said Raus's law.
yers, adding their "belief"
that it "satisfactorily answers
(Heine's) contention as to the
insufficiency of the Agency's
authority."
Expanding on previous CIA
admissions that emigres are
intelligence sources, the memo
noted that some members of
emigre groups receive fresh
information from "friends or
family still in their home-
land."
The memo said It Is "ob-
vious" that Soviet intelligence,
services want to discover
emigres with information
about their homeland, the na-
ture and sources of this infor.
mation, whether the sources
could be "polluted so as to
impart false information,"
whether emigres could- be
"duped or recruited" into So.'
viet Intelligence, and whether
emigre groups could be "cor-
rupted" to
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