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Ryan, director of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations from 1980 to 1983, has been accused of suppressing evidence in the denaturalization trials of John Demjanjuk, who now sits on death row in Israel...
That evidence allegedly included statements by Nazi death camp guards who said Ivan the Terrible was another man, Ivan Marcenko. They said Demjanjuk was a guard at the Sobibor camp less than a hundred miles away...
...Demjanjuk's attorneys and family members contend that Ryan overlooked evidence because he was under heavy political pressure to win convictions against Nazi criminals...
...Ryan, under questioning from Demjanjuk attorney Michael Tigar, repeatedly denied that he submitted to any outside pressures. He denied knowing anything of the guard statements or of Marcenko until reports from the old Soviet Union surfaced in late...
George Parker, a former government prosecutor,testified last November that Ryan rebuffed himwhen he expressed doubts about the government'sevidence against Demjanjuk...