SPY SUSPECT BALKED IN SLANDER SUIT BY CIA ' PRIVILEGE '

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400190076-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2000
• Sequence Number: 76
• Publication Date: April 29, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

AND TLMJ3S HERALD
APR 29 1966
Approved F;Q' Reieese 2000/d8/26' : CIA-RDP75-0009'IR000400190076-1
epect Balked.
,,in Slander-Suit
byCIA"Privile
ss~
XS%
place In Federal Court to- $110,000,suit.
'The -defense. then sum?
Heine, 46, now a/Canadian"
anL111v1VISL', April ZU--A ""?` dL U111Un[5. on a iiaus sccurlty Would allow.
weird confrontation t o o km?rtion to dismiss Heine's, 11
privileges Claimed
1bl11 i11L11\l1
. principals in yesterday's hearings In a case where an Estonian ominra was tohall.,a .. _.._ . _ _ ...e
,day between an accused So citizem, ariz
and Raus, 39 a ed its previous prrvl-
Melt spy and an 'admitted Washington highway engi- ~~claims.' It conceded
;operative of the Central In. neer; affected not to notice fhat ;any privileges impair
For three hours the sup-,Mast met, Heine told news
`
in 1960
posed spy, Estonian emigre I men in the Corridor, when
Raus invited him t
.
o
Eerik Heine, dourly watched hi give` h speech on his anti-
s two lawyers try to root Communist exploits.
intormatlon from the man (The Justice Department.
,who so labeled (him, 'fellow !and FBI refused to comment,
',emigre Yuri Raus. on the question of why
But at each probe Raus's Heine is not being arrested,
If he is ! accused ? of being a
battery of live attorneys spy. One official noted pri-'
dropped around (him a pro? vately that Heine's arrest.
.tective claim of "privilege" might be construed as gross.
based on two contelutlonst Interference In the Baltimore
court action.)
That In calling Heine a So-
,
0 .viet spy he acted in his
scope as it CIA agent, a n d
that further disclosures'
Would ? compromise = Ameri-
can Intelligence.. -
'Case Is Continued
Heine's larQM~lf I
said It was pointless to go
on. Chief Judge Roszel C.
Robert J. Stanford, Heine
looked small and-pinched, al-
most furtive. The boyish;
looking Raus at warily in
-
the . witness chair, pausing
at each query'.f r
?mrR~ie2lii~e~
by CIA to defend him. t
to begin;.'.Judge Thomsen'
to an' extent the' Judicial
sea;eh for truth" but argued
!.that a r(ling against Raus;
who Is "prevented by, the
nature of his job frown de,
fending himself," would.ex?
pose "every agent of the
CIA throughout the world to
the peril" of law suits.
Also 'submitted was CIA
Director ' ?Adm. William F;
Raborn's first statement in
the 18-month-old case, lie
said he bad t'personally de-1
termined" that further dis-)
closures by Raus woufdj
compromise intelligence
.sources and methods.
Raus revealed under ques %
boning that his 1965 Arm ` and declined to F.77.
res ?t.attended,,:_pn'.: "Intelllgende
school." CIA counsel Hous..
ton added that Raus "was
"Id_ directly ''or Indirectly
for CIA service "during the,'
times in question"-that 'is, '
in 1963 and 1964 when he,
called Heine a Soviet agent'
in order to, discredit him in
Estonian emigre circles,
1 The' Judge ruled that,
Raus did riot have to an?
swer these questions: was
Intelligence school part of.
reserve duty? Was all his.
I3ureau of Public Roads pay'
for Bureau work? What was'.
his Income beyond, Bureau
and reserve pay? What, In-
come did he report on Fed?9
eral tax returns?
Raus said he had told Es:.
tonlan emigres who doubted
his charges against Heine to
check with the FBI. Asked i
If he had conferred with the,.
FBI before saying that, Raus