SPYING AND SLANDERING: AN ABSOLUTE PRIVILEGE FOR THE CIA AGENCY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00770R000100010001-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 22
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 2005
• Sequence Number: 1
• Content Type: OPEN

Approved For Release 2005/02/10 : CIA-RDP75-0077OR0001 00010001 -2
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When 007 :pl____is an enemy will.
4. ll ect n tro eCtile from his
a
trusty Walt'ler !---':X .32,1 aficionados give no to '_'":is possible regal
liability; we are --1 aware that Bond is lic ::sec to the real world,
_owever, int _:fi erce agents often strik ~'??.~.: _;S ", t wiii words-
ai'hegations that destroy reputations, iai__k_es, career S. A :Id ,._`:e Of
their . SAO1SIO:_ 'y before the law is not y SU,dc : is in the iemi-
ing phantasmagoria. The recent case of Rc:-s3 iresents one of
perplexing legal issues raised by the ac v _. nd rcover agents. After a
CIA secret agent is s;:ed because of a d re 1at7 y te' auce, may ho reVea
his identity and invoke the absolute _ t file e= ce: _ rr upon executive
officials by the Supreme ,our,--'s decision :_l mow;; v. ii a as
At three meetings of the Legion of 1-_.;e_atio A 1953 and
1964, ~t i Rn-os, ,he L egion's '.fiat d _ :{ iieine
was a "Co munist" and. a "KG ages t."c Heine, a Cana-'a- citizen, was an
Estonian em'igrd who earned pa_?n of his '--y exhibiting an anti-
Conlmunist film. _n November ;:964, lie instmtten a S.h__ er o 3ainst
1. Sec I. PLEMIiSG, Goi.DFINGER 29 (1959). Until 1915'-', 007 cc a Berea;; .25, see
1. FLE_ISIxG, LivE ^xD LaT Die 21 (1954), but '.is was .;ilacLc. .:y the Waitoer and a
Smith & Wesson .38. See I. PL i:G, Douroe. No, --c 25-29 :,8).
2. Sec Z FLE.MING, DOCTOR No, at 25 (19c ). Bu s,^, You ONLY Ltv
Tw:ca 2~'-29
3. 261 IT. Stipp. 570 (1:.. Md. 1966), appeal docr:edrd, No. = ii Cir., A-arcl. 27,
1967.
4-"Absolute privilege" is a doctrine of tho law of Fb slar _ which is been
applied to other tortiouc concoct by exert .five o.:ice s. '171 'C-' a u : c'a_n cannot he
held liable for his acts re arCll ss o-' his mctive o- the r. - :a c"..milct..5
generally W. PeosS R, TORTS J ,C9 (3d ed 19 -) oo _ more tic
termed absolute from S , Se.,
Defaawtior.. Snits Agc;st 'oven.,:. : c..rive O.dfcia?s