AGENT, UNDER EYE OF CIA, TAKES STAND IN HEINE SUIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400190077-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2000
• Sequence Number: 77
• Publication Date: April 29, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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By ORR KELLY
Star Staff Writer
BALTIMORE - Juri Raus,
'who has accused a fellow
Estonian immigrant of being a
Communist KGB agent, spent
nearly two hours on the witness
stand here yesterday as part of
a calculated exercise in futility.
While the general counsel of
the Central Intelligence Agency
quietly nodded 'or shook his
head toward Raus after each
question, attorneys for the man
Rams is accused of slandering
demonstrated that they were
;clearly blocked from learning
anything relevant from Raus
about his job as an agent of the
'CIA.
1erik Heine, the man accused
by Raus, -came here from his
home near Toronto for the
hearing and sat grimly through
'Me attempt to bake a deposition
from Raus.
Sitting at the table with Raus'
.,attorneys was Lawrence Hous-
.ton, CIA general counsel, who
was sent personally by CIA
Director William F. Raborn to
Instruct Raus on what questions
he would be' permitted to an-
der dye of
nd in Heine Suit
lidentified Raus as a CIA agent
and has said that he was in-
structed to warn Estonians in
this country that Heine was a
"dispatched Soviet Intelligence
operative, a KGB agent."
In a paper filed with the court
yesterday morning, Raborn said
he was sending Houston "to
assist in protecting information
relating to intelligence sources
and methods."
Raus was permitted to answer
a number of routine questions
such.as his name, address, age
and birthplace during the taking
of the deposition.
But the government objected
when Heine's 'attorney, Ernest
C. Raskauskas, attempted to
learn whether Raus was paid by
the CIA 'and how he was paid.
After a conference, Houston
told Chief Federal District
Judge Roszel C. Thomson that
Raus had been paid "directly or
indirectly" for his services to
the CIA during the period in
which he made the statements
about Heine.
Raus mentioned - in answer-
ing a question about his service
in the Army reserve - that he
had attended on intelligence
school last summer. He was not
permitted to answer any further
questions about the location of
the school or what he studied
there.
,
said that he had filed annual!
federal income tax statements,;
but he was not permitted to say
what total income he had
reported.
When Raskauskas attempted,
to ask a series of questions)
concerning who at the CIA had;
supplied Raus with informations
about Heine and precisely what!
information he had been fur-'
nished, Maroney and Houston
objected.
Hearing Set On Motion
When at became clear that nod
further relevant information'
could be obtained, Raskauskas
dismissed Raus from the wit-
ness chair and a hearing was
scheduled for May 13 on Raus'
motion for a summary judg-
ment based on his claims that he
has privilege against a slander
suit 'because he was acting as;
an official of the U.S. Govorn.
ment.
Heine said afterward that one .
of his purposes in coming here
was to make himself available
if any agency of the government
wanted to question him about,
his alleged involvement with the
KGB--or even to arrest him. No
one bothered him.
U.S. Attorney Thomas Ken-
ney, , who sat only a few feet
from Heine during the hearing,
explained later that it is one
thing (or he government to
know something about 'a person
jand'another thing enhirely to be
addle to ? prove do court )that , ]he
has committed a Specific C4 e
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3 CIA Affidavits
In' three, affidavits submitted
to the court in connection with
Heine's $110,000 slander
suit