HEINE CASE JUDGE TO SEE DIRECTIVE ON CIA POWER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400180048-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: June 1, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGH Heine Case Judge to Sec
CPDirectiveon CIA Power
connection with the slander suit
of an Estonian immigrant
described by the CIA as a Soviet
agent.
Plans to show the court the
secret directive were revealed in
a memorandum filed in the case
by the attorneys for Juri Raus,
39, a Bureau of Public Roads
engineer who Is, being sued for
secret National Security $110,000 by Erik Heine, 46,
Council directive to the Central Toronto, Canada.
Intelligence Agency is expected The directive Is expected to b
to be submitted to the court in shown only to the judge and th
1~oM
Raskas and Robert J. Stanford,
have argued that the affairs of
emigre groups are a matter of
internal security and that the
CIA has no business in this area.
t is believed that the Na-
tion Security Council Directive
No. 2 ... attached to the affi-
da t of Lawrence R. Houston,
gen ral counsel of the CIA,
Isat factorily answers the
purpose of showing it to th ~pla tiff's contention as to the
court is to remove any dou
about the CIA's authority t
involve Itself in the affairs
emigre groups in this countr ,
according to the memorandu
filed by Raus' attorneys, Paul
Connolly and E. Barrett Prett
man Jr.
is fficiency of the agency's
au ority," the memorandum
sai
nnoRy and. Prettyman
arg ed in their memorandum
th emigre groups are an
obv ous source of. foreign intelli-
Heine's,}attorneys,-.Ernesti ,pc hant, for. maintaining a
closed society renders it neces-
saryto develop unconventional
sources of information, in order
to learn of the current.geogra-
phy and topography of Soviet-
dominated countries and the
social, economic and political:
condition of their people."
The Houston affidavit will be,
the fifth document filed with the
Federal District Court in Balti-
more by the CIA in cornection
with the case. In previous
affidavits, officials of the CIA
have told the court that Raus
was employed by the CIA and
was instructed to warn fellow
Estonians that Heine was "a
dispatched Soviet intelligence'
operative, a KGB agent." Heine
Chas denied the accusation.
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