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Throughout the judge's 198-page report to the Sixth Circuit of Appeals, Wiseman frequently notes the "credibility" and "good faith" intentions of Ryan, former director of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI), in the denaturalization trial of John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk, a former Cleveland autoworker accused of being death camp guard "Ivan the Terrible," was extradited to Israel in 1986 and now sits on death...
...December 1991, more than two dozen statements from other Nazi death camp guards were released by the Soviet Union. In the statements, the guards, who were tried and executed by the Soviets between 1944 and 1961, say Ivan the Terrible was not Demjanjuk, but another man, Ivan Marcenko...
Ryan believes there may be an explanation for the Soviet evidence. It's possible, he told the Harvard Gazette in January 1992, that Demjanjuk was known by his mother's name, Marcenko, At Treblinka. And he has doubts, he says, about the significance of 40-year-old evidence from death camp guards who are now dead...
...easy for Ryan, who boasted in Quiet Neighbors about his access to Soviet documents, to explain how he may have missed this key evidence. Now, Ryan has backed away from his previous statements about Demjanjuk's identity--statements he made with certainty...
Asked in a February interview if Demjanjuk is Ivan the Terrible, Ryan would only say: "That decision is in the hands of the Israeli Supreme Court...