Security Service in U.s. "justified" in Using Slander

The Week Vol. 6, No. 22, c. 15 December 1966 · p. 5 of the scan · 90 words

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from our U.S. correspondent

A federal court in Baltimore has ruled that the protection of national security can justify the use of slander by C.I.A, agents. The judge, Roszel Thomsen, gave this ruling on December 8th, in a slander case brought by Mr. Erik Heine, of Toronto, who alleged that Juri Raus, a C.I.A. agent, said that he was a double agent for the Soviet Union.

The C.I.A. admitted that Raus made the charge, but that he was acting under orders, and claimed that he was therefore immune from prosecution.