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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400180037-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 37
• Content Type: PREL

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TO HAVE SUMMARILY THROW OUT OF COURT A $110,000 SLANDER SUIT
AGAINST A CIA AGENT WHO IS CHARTED BY A FORMER ESTONIAN
FREEDOM FIGHTER WITH CALLING HIM AN AGENT OF THE SOVIET SECRET
POL ICE.
FEDERAL JUDGE ROSZEL THOMSEN SAID HE WOULD NOT RULE Oiv THE
NOTION FOR A SUMMARY JUDGMENT FOR AT LEAST A WEEK TO' GIVE THE
PLAINTIFF'S LAWYER A CHANCE TO STUDY A JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
OPINION UPHOLDING CERTAIN PRIVILEGES OF INTELLIGENCE AGENTS
Io,! INTERNAL SECURITY MATTERS.
THE PLAINTIFF, ERICK HEINE, HAS CHARGED CIA AGENT JURI
ALSO OF ESTONIAN ORIGIN, WITH SLANDER FOR CALLING HEINE
E '3ER OF THE K.F..B.0 THE SOVIET SECRET POLICE. HEINE WAS
LADER IN THE ESTONIAN EMIGRE MOVEMENT AND THE GOVERNMENT WAS
T1 I.'JG TO DISCREDIT HIM, HE CHARGED.
THE DEFENSE HAS NOT DENIED THE STATEMENTS WERE MADE, BUT
I:1 EAD HAS CONTENDED THAT RAUS WAS PRIVILEGED TO MAKE THEM
I a, IN THE SCOPE OF HIS DUTIES AS A GOVERNMENT AGENT.
JUDGE THOsMSEN SAID HE BELIEVES IT IS THE COURT'S DUTY "TO
PROTECT ALL THE. PEOPLE Or THE UNITED STATES AGAINST ANY POSSIBLE
MISTAKES BY THE CIA AND OTHER INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES."
THE PLAINTIFF HOTLY CONTESTED THE CONTENTION THAT THE AGENT'S
STATEMENTS WERE PRIVILEGED. JUDGE THOMSEN TOLD THEM TO READ
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM.
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