CIA INVOKES IMMUNITY IN SLANDER SUIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400190008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 14, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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paratus, has ordered 'Mr. Raus
6,Pnnt . to testify about the allega-
ihi D 1Lions. The CIA has admitted only.
(hat Mr. 11aus was employed to
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E-213, 008 Yesterday, Judge Thomsen
S-331, 420 heard several hours of arguments?
on whether the silence rule in-'
yoked by the CIA should end thet
case without trial.
Lawyers for Mr. Heine said!:
MAY 141966 they were ready to challenge
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er the Maryland residents
was covered under fl, 1,1 k t'
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LARDER. SUIT theGuskas, attorney, pointeroutthe Government agency had al-,
ready filed three affidavits at dif-!`
--- -- ferent times.
Paul H. Connolly, Washington
Heine Counsel Disputes;{ attorney for Mr? Raus, agreedi
to state his position on the pri-+
Claim, Call For vilege asserted by the CIA in a
Trial Of Case brief that would ask an end to
the case.
This will be filed May 23. The
6y THEODORE W. HENDRICKS other side will answer in a month
The Central Intelligence Agency Ana further hearings will be .
scheduled at the end of August
insisted yesterday in Federal t:
,, f necessary, Judge Thomsen an-
Court that nothing further would it nounced.
he fit .7 f, .,e,,.,.. ; '.,i.... .,r _. !: ,. .. . . ,
E j lrt lri U it 1 l I 11 rrient that no further information;
! would be forthconiin ''
ane
immunity raised by the CIA and
C I A INVOKES asked for a trial of the issue. It
3 Afridwviic i:ao.i P.1
I emigre groups. allow him to reveal his convey-4
The CIA, the nation's spy ap-sations with the spy agency.
,
u
Mr. Heine is,suing a Maryland clear his name,
resident, Juri Raus, of Hyatts-' CIA officials have produced a
' ville, on the grounds that state- - secrecy agreement signed by Mr.
?ments were circulated that dam-' 'Raus, an eugineer in the bureau
aged his reputation with Estonian Public Roads, and declined to
C. Thomsen that the case go to 11 He is asking damages and a
trial this fall
; Jury trial that he asserts wo
ld
'der suit. groups about his exploits as a
However, lawyers for Eerik partisan fighter in the 1940's was
.Heine, 46, of Rexdale, Canada," ruined by the statements of' Mr,
pleaded with Chief Judge Roszel. Raus.
fence on issues in a $110,000 slan-reer as a lecturer to Estonian
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