THE LIGHTS MAY GLOW SOME

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400180043-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: June 28, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000400180043-8
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The Lights May " Glow Some
-ie lighls may glow some in.the reutation -remains valid. But there
eini -. rkness of the, world of es- also' remains the question: Shall the
v onage. I t .lJ ;preservation of this right be per-
If they do, they'll` be coming ari y' nutted to jeopardize the entire
in a Baltimore courtroom. The, how, United States counter-espionage ap-
may. compete favorably with ft;` ` 1saratus?
em eei, on television. or in books, There also is this question: Should.
}n .. -Eerik Heine, an Estonian" an admitted counterspy, who con-
ertli i, suing another Estonian, sealed his CIA connection for a year
Jurl l*,aus. 'he complaint is slander. after suit was filed, be allowed the
i? tr warts pl30,00Q c ages. He` complete shield of official immunity'
"fl doni .fighter,". in EgoM--,.lt.
in departure to?n truth,,. called him 1'ne questions at bar are more im-
a Communist and a`Soviet agent. portant than accrue to the ordinary
Ile1 bad-.some reputation as a. slander complaint.
Adding towthe .xlifess of,. ;tl1ei?
;matter is the Fact that Raus is, an
adPiittett agent of the Central Intel-
l genre ,Agency..On one .occasion,
MA-lawyers have tried to keep Raus
''rorn`having to answer questions in
lij CIA -,)Ise has -told the court:
'tlich Jun i' Raus 'gpoke, concern-
ing` `fhe plaintiff on the occasions
ahc :--- v hich complaint. if, made,, he
, ,stir wit in the scope and
{ oit'r? cn llis,employment by the
aeei^y,,. on b^haif of the United
ties
This 'is designed to place about
Raus the mantle of 4ficial protec-
tion for whatever wasssid and done,
in the course of bLing .a CIA agent.
Espionage can be a dirty business,,
an einbarrasoi,i;, thing, fora demo-
cracy within a-r4hblle, as this coun-
try is. .
The trial .4f . tiie