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Ryan, director of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI) from 1980 to 1983, is being investigated by Wiseman for his conduct during the denaturalization and extradition trials of Demjanjuk, who now sits on death row in Israel...
...Einhorn, OSI prosecutor during Demjanjuk's deportation trial, denied suppressing any evidence. He said he knew nothing of Soviet records released in 1991 that indicate another man, Ivan Marchenko, was in fact Ivan the Terrible...
...cloud over the Demjanjuk case has darkened over Ryan's conduct while at OSI...
Ryan came to the department in January 1980, and two months later he became its director. In between, he travelled to Moscow, where he established contacts in the Soviet government that became very important and highly controversial. Demjanjuk supporters suggested OSI lawyers were the dupes of a Soviet Union out to get Demjanjuk, who grew up in the Ukraine...
Yoram Sheftel, Demjanjuk's Israeli lawyer, took this evidence and immediately went on the offensive against Special Investigations and Ryan. Appearing with Ryan on ABC News' "Nightline" on December 23, 1991, Sheftel charged that Ryan had known the guard statements were in OSI files when Demjanjuk was denaturalized...