HEINE CLEARS U.S. CUSTOMS ON WAY TO CIA COURT FIGHT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400190049-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2000
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: April 28, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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By ORR KELLY
Star Staff Writer.
What happens to a person ac
cused as a spy .when he tries to
cross the border into the United
States?
The same thing that happens
to ordinary tourists. He loses
his luggage.
Erik Heine, who has been
described by the Central Intel-
ligence Agency as "a dis-
patched Soviet intelligence
operative, a KGB agent," went
through U.S. customs and im-
migration inspection at Toronto
without a hitch yesterday on
his way here to attend a court
i hearing in Baltimore today.
The only trouble on the whole /
trip came at Washington Na-
tional Airport when he tried to
find someone who knew where
he could claim his baggage with
the little red claim check the
customs agents had given him
in Toronto.
Finally, he was sent to the
air cargo office in the hangar
farthest removed from the ter-
minal. There, he was given a
piece of paper and told to take
it to the customs office, another
half mile away.
Finally, he got the luggage.
Seemed Pleased
Heine, who was half expect-
ing to be arrested when he went
through customs in Toronto,
seemed pleased when one of
the agents said he thought he
recognized his name.
But the other. agent nudged
ustoms
Court Fight:
EERIK IIEINE
Man without luggage.
him and said, "Aw, You're- "He was very cooperative,
thinking of Sonja Heine." . ? most helpful," Heine said.
Heine, a resident of Rexdale,. When Flight 402 was called,
a suburb of Toronto, checked in Heine went to Boarding Room
at the American Airlines ticket 30 in the new circular terminal
counter at the Toronto Interna- building.
tional Airport a little before 8:30, His ticket was checked by an
a.m. He was directed to the
U.S. customs counter just
behind the ticket counter.
A polite and cooperative U.S.
customs agent asked the usual
questions about what he was
presse surprise when informed "If they destroy me, they will,
of the CIA's description of remove a fighter.: If I am'
Heine.. "We've heard nothing cleared, it hurts the CIA. I wants
about him," the spokesman said. to make it clear that I have no
"We've received no instructions i hard feelings against the CIA.
of any sort about him. It was We fight the same fight."
just another routine clearance' The ground below was not;
for us." , visible as the plane carrying.
Juri Raus, who made the 'r Heine crossed the U.S.-Canadian
accusations against Heine, has border at 27,000 feet about 9:351
pleaded absolute immunity: a.m.
against the slander suit because He landed at LaGuardia
he said he was making the Airport In New York a little less
statements in 'the c6ursc of hs than an hour later.
job as an agent of the
'CIA Thus A. he st
d
f
~
eppe
o
f the plane
., him a film of a two-hour movie] Routinely, the agent asked' the truth or falsity : of the onto a red-carpeted boarding
based on his experiences as a' where he was from, where lie charges may never be tried in ramp he remarked with a
gubrrilla fighter against the' was going and how long he court. ;chuckle:
Russians in the forests of, would be there. As he settled 'himself in al "Here I am on American
Estonia. He then stamped the ticket,' window seat on the new'twin jet soil." Then he flew on to Na-
Heine showed the agent a "Admitted, April 27, 1966." 'BAC-400, Heine talked freely tional.
-brochure printed in both Eng-1 "Wheew," said Heine, as he.'about his case. , After finally getting his lug-
'; lish and Estonian describing the stepped into the waiting room, ! "It is sad, very sad," Heine' gage, he met with his attorneys,
film. "I really hoped they would, said. Ernest C. Raskauskas and
The agent then suggested hel arrest me. Then I would.have; No Hard eelings I i Robert J. Stanford, in prepara-
get a certificate from Canadian' my day in court." tion for today 's hearing,
in
CIA and I are both on the y g~
customs so he would have no A spokesman for the Toronto! same side. which they will attempt to take
troubl bringing h oklygQvigr m Raus.
t
into,l7~f3oc~17Ii~a !'}l fry 1~ -R7+Q300>R~OAfBOd_`1!?1
ibe Ways,+ -
showed his plastic, wallet'~sijye
Canadian passport to, ii: blue-
shirted U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Service officer.
The card carries his picture and
both his signature and his type-
APR 2 8 1966
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