CANADA EYES HEINE'S SUIT AGAINST (Classified)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400190062-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2000
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: May 1, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Since then, tote" CIA has re-^
vealed In connection witO:,~
Ileine's $110,000 slander surf;
against Juri Raus, 39, of Hyatts- i 1 4
Ville,' Md., that Raus Is a CIA 1 t
/ ^ agent and that he was instruct-; k :+
S t ed to warn fellow Estonians that
1-leine ; Heine was a Soviet agent. ,I ' . ~
Disclosure of the CIA's In
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volvemept in the cas` , -,
brought angry comment from rri~ _'?
By ORR KELLY ' reaction from the Canadian
Star staff writer government. +'
The Roval Canadian Mounted In Washington, Yvon Beaulne'
Police 'liaison officer In Wash- minister of the Embassy of.
Canaaa, Indicated that the
Canadian government felt that
any statement on the case ate
this time, while it remains a;
private law suit between one,
Individual and another, would'
only further complicate an
already complicated situation.
If Heine had been accused
and brought to trial in tbt
United States, he said, there
would be "some official interest
on the part" of the government:.
But in this case, he noted,it was i
Heine who Instituted the court
pfoceedings.
The district in which. Helve
lives just outside. Toronto is
represented in the , Canadian
(louse of Commons by Robert;
Winters, who Is also minister of.;
trade and commerce.
Contacted in Ottawa, he said,
he, too, knew nothing about,,bhe
case except what he had read In ;
the newspapers. He said ho-;
would 'bake a liersonal ? lnterosl;'?
In the case If Heine ask0q fbr`j
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Against ,Raus'
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ington first heard about Ecrik
Heine, who has been described'
y the Central Intelligence
Agency as a`Sov1et agent, when
he read about, the.: casei,Hin the
newspapers. ' .
Inspector Peter Bazowski said
he obviously could not reveal
details of information. transmit-
ted through him between United
States and Canadian agencies,
but he added:
. "In this case, I can say quite
honestly that all- I know about it
is what I have read In. the news-
papers.
Heine, ?a.' 46-year-old resident
of Rexdale, a suburb of Toronto,1
has said he was granted Canadl?
an citizenship In August 1964
about three weeks after he had
been questioned by RCMP pl,
officers regarding rumors
circulating in the Pstonian'
emigre commtmity that he (vas
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