MAN CALLED SOVIET SPY SUES TO OPEN CIA FILES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300520004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 28, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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L'i- - e en-
Intelligence Agency may
have to open its files for the
fig sIt time if a challenge to the
Agency'.s shroud of secrecy made
by a. famous Estonian guerilla
fighter succeeds.
/EEerik Heine, branded as a
Russian KGB agent by a man
lie CIA says works for them,
33 14'd suit in the U. S. 4th Cir-
,uit Court of Appeals Monday
in .in appeal of $110,000 slander
?r 47-year-old Heine, making
t:.,_; first test of the OIA's right
i absolute secrecy, is a natural-
Canadian' living with his
'\Vlk~ In the Toronto suburb of
Roxda:le, Ont.
CAPTURED in the Russian
seizure of Estonia in World War
II, Heine became a legend in
the Baltic Sea states for with-
standing brutal torture in a Rus-
sian labor camp and joining
guerilla fighters after his escape.
..n a twist to the case, Heine's
: e y-ers say the CIA may think
il,-:ire is not the' man he claims
to he. -
Briefs filed for Heine demand-1
i Heine a cu ed Rius of making;
>me in Europe as a piano maker l the charges because he is "al
?irclcs for his rigidly anti-Rus-
ian and anticommunist lectures.
Since the case began, the for-
ner guerilla fighter's reputation
ins become clouded and his in-
ume has dropped.
APPARENTLY, Heine came
nder CIA suspicion through sim-
;antics between him and an-
iher Estonian,/Arthur Hayman,
? ice deported as a Russian
Hayman advocated using air
.'.loons filled with anti-Commu-
st leaflets to drop over Estonia
jealous opportunist delighted tot
grasp a hint of caution iromi
the CIA, inflate it with r:e hot:
breath of hi;: own ambir:c.r, and,
thereafter proclaim to v.orld'
that Eerik Hine was a ccmrnwi
ist."
THE APPEAL said if the CIA
merely has to, say scmeane works.
for it for it to be accepted asp
courtroom proof, then scores oft
,ersens would "!carry a CIA
Carte Blanche slander card to
-hurl atccusa,tiens against any citi
ed the court order the CIA and
director Richard Helms to open
their files and prove the man
who called him a Russian spy
actually woriks for the CIA.
The man, ''furi Raus, another
Estonian, now a naturalized U.S.
citizen, invoked the veil of nation-
al security in the slander trial
-before a Baltimore Federal Dis-
triot Court.
Pubicly, Raus said, he is a .
highway .research engineer for
the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
and living in Hyattsville, Md.
PRIVATELY, he and the CIA
said, Raus works for the intel-
ligen'ce agency.
Helno's lawyerfi said the crux
of their case is that if Raus
is a CIA man, then before he
can be given immunity the
CIA
must at least prove that he
But to do that much, the CIA
said in District Court, would be
to open too many doors and ex-
pose too much of the CIA's in-
telligence - gathering . methods
among Estonians and other im-
migrants. , ,
Heine, whose father gained
seine, claimm?ing he knew nothing The appeal said the CIA could,
t:ou,t Hayman or his proposal, claim nearly anyone as one oft
dvocated the idea himself. ?s rnember