' FREEDOM FIGHTER' EERIK HEINE SUED FOR LIBEL IN CANADA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400180032-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: October 25, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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nist, has been charged in n fo~u? affidavits filed in
Canadian suit with accusing tw c nnection with the case, the
other men of being soft o C A has acknowledged that
i communism. R us was one of its agents and
Heine's involvement in th t the had been instructed to
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unexpectedly in Toronto Thur t t Heine was a "dispatched
j hue, of the Supreme Court anwhile, someone distributed
Ontario, dismissed the jury an le flats accusing certain mcm-
ordered a ? new trial with Hein b rs of. the Estonian Central
as one of the defendants. ~ C uncll of being soft on commu-
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Helne, a 45-year=old native ni m because they had not
~ Tartu, Estonia, and, accordin s ken out when a visitor from
i to his own account, an unco S vlet Estonia was entertained
tighter, filed a X110,000 slar~de#~?' pn Dec. 18, 1989, Harry Park-
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asking:fi5t?,OOn in damages.
On Oct. 17, 1964, during a
meeting of Estonian veterans at
Estonian hall on Toronto's
Broadview Avenue, they said, he
distributed the second of four
libellous bulletins.
.Queen's Counsel Donald Keith,
who represents Parkma and
Trass, said a diligent but unsuc-
cessful eitort was made to find
out who had written and distrib-
uted the bulletins.
On Oct. 17, the trial of the libel
case against Tarum began
before Donohue and a jury was
clyosen. ,
The next evening, Tarum's
lawyer, D. J. Catalano, had an
interview in his office with
Baltimore pearly ttpo yearn eg ~ p fAssUl',Of, chemical engineer-~ IIeine, one of four or five mem-
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comuuuuty he intended to call
as ?~ituesses.
"I asked him if he knew who
was responsible for the bulle,
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! Thursday, when Tarum took
the stand in his awn defense,
Keith asked if ho knew In 1964
i Again, "I3o." ~ Then he asked,
Keith said he felt that, under ' .
Canadian law, he has an almost: '
open-and-shut case when the;.'
case comes up again in the; '
January ass[zes. Catalano,~who
said he will not be representing
Heine in the case, feels that a .
good argument can be mado.
that the criticism in the bulletins -
falls within the bounds of fair ,
comment concerning the actions
of people in semi-public posi-
tions.
"someone Had To"
Heine, reached by phone at his
home in the Toronto suburbs as
he arrived from his job at
Artistic Woodwork, said he had
not yet heard he had been
named as a defendant In they
"They accused Mr. Tarum~l
and he had nothing to do with
it," IIeine said. "I said I did it. I
called them soft on commu-
nism.... Someone 7~ad to do it."~
In Heine's case against Raus;
in Baltimore, bath sides are now;
waiting for Chief Federsl Dis-~
to rule whether or not Raus is
entitled to absolute privilege
against ?a slander suit because,
he was a government employe,
when he made his accusations'
? "Do you -know nowt" It was' himself in the unusual pos'stionj
then that Tarum told about. the ~ of trying to collect in_Baltimora; '
night, Rend ~ aeid ~e fntended to~Estonlaps~ `~ ; ':~~~? ' i' ~ ~ ' ,' ~,~ _ ~.