JOHNSON GETS HEINE APPEAL IN CIA CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400190054-5
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2000
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: May 3, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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MAY 3 1966
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Johnson Gets
Heine Appeal
In CIA Case
President. Johnson has been
asked to order the Central
Inivillgence Agency to divulge
morn about its relationship with
.Turi Raus, a CIA employe who
has charged that Eerik Heine,
Es(n nian expatriate, is a Soviet
agrnl.
Heine has filed a S110,910
slander suit -against Raus in
U.S. f)isi.rict Court in Baltimore,
Raus and the CIA, which in 1035
ordered him to "dissrn lnale"
the charges against Ileine,
contend that Pius was acting as
a "government official" and
consequently is immune. from
such suits.
Ernest C. Raskauskas, one of
Ileine's Washington lawyers,
asked the White House vestcr-
day to invoke a little-used
paragraph of Exhcutive Order
10,501 requiring the President to
receive and act on complaints
from priitate citizens about
operation of CIA security regu-
lalimLS. The petition was re-
ferred to 1 arry C, McPherson?
Jr., special . counsel to . the
President.
Raskauskas.said this morning
that additional disclosures by
the CIA would support his
client's contention that Raus'
relationship with the Intelli-
gence agency was not one that
granted him immunity as a
government employe.
Raskauskas also indicated
that he believes additional
disclosures by the CIA would
show that Raus' charges against
Heine are false. .
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