JUDGE DELAYS CIA MOTION RULING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400190012-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: May 14, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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argument raises the whole
question of the right of the!
Government to engage in in- telligence activities and whether
,'the same rules apply as in
' everyday activities."
Grinning as he left the bench,
he added, "~urely if it is i.:
:anything like what we see spies
doing on televisfoni'. there are'
~t>zy Etna t'Wes.'~'? .. '
.~~~e L"Plela" Vs CIA Mo'lo~ ftilin
STATINTL
BALTIMORE, May 14 - out his orders to tell Estonian argued that the law "clearly employes of the Federal
Who$e cloak and dagger must a groups that Mr. Heine was "a gives the Federal Bureau of - government.
spy wear if he's working in the'? dispatched Soviet intelligence Investigation c o n't r o 1 over Paul Connelly, representing
continental United States? operative and a KGB' agent," Mr. Raus, retorted that foreign
That question was raised and tfius the $110,000 suit should matters of Internal security." emigre groups are sources of
yesterday by lawyers for Eerick be dismissed. The CIA has no statutory Intelligence for the CIA, and "
Heine, who Is suing a Central , ? But the judge discovered that right to run around the United thus, the agency had the "right
Intelligence Agency man for some of the ground rules were States in the Knights of to warn them there was an
slandering him among their not clear, and gave lawyers on: Estonian Columbus, the Veterans Masons, subvertingH or inHusion in their ranks."
fellow Estonian refugees. both sides until July 23 to swap He said even if the case is
y those ? groups among one allowed to go to trial, he would
a series of briefs la in out the
In a hearing In Baltimore y g another, Mr.'Raskauskas said. claim
Federal Court, Judge Roszel argument. He added that "Issuance of an ' "qualified privilege" on
behalf of his client because of
Thomsen was supposed to hear Ernest Iii a s k a U s k a s and :.;order to make ? defamatory, his position as general chairman
arguments that ? the`, CIA agent, "Robert Stanford, *resenting s t i t e m e a t s was not of the Legion of Estonian
Hurl luaus, of " HyhttsviUe, had ?. ,ll+fr, ielne,, Who says ;'he 'has contemplated 'in the. ; statute"
Liberation.
bAdt~te:p~'i-riib~e `to "e rr ., di[e~1psnl4-COmin?lat~ ntln mnbl.i+ dbrtain,k: Judge Thomsen said the t
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