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Los Angeles (JTA) — Two
former U.S. Justice Depart-
ment lawyers have defended
their actions in an investiga-
tion into the handling of the
case against John Demjan-
juk, accused of being the
brutal Treblinka guard
known as "Ivan the Terri-
ble."
Bruce Einhorn, one of the
lawyers, testified here that
he knew of no documents
that would have cast doubt
on the identity of Mr. Dem-
janjuk.
One week earlier in
Boston, Allan 'Ryan Jr.,
former head of the Justice
Department's Office of Spe-
cial Investigations, testified
that his office did not
withhold any exculpatory
evidence in the case.
Both former prosecutors
appeared in a court-ordered
review of whether lawyers
for the Justice Department's
Office of Special Investiga-
tions suppressed evidence
that might have cleared
Demjanjuk during a nine-
year investigation leading to
his extradition to Israel in
1986.
Mr. Demjanjuk, a 72-year-
old retired Cleveland auto
worker, has been convicted
by an Israeli court of serving
as a sadistic gas chamber
operator known as "Ivan the
Terrible" at the Treblinka
death, where 900,000 Jews
were killed during the war.
The Israeli Supreme Court is
now reviewing Demjanjuk's
appeal of his death sentence.
Mr. Demjanjuk's defense
here and in Israel claims
that not he, but a fellow
Ukrainian named Ivan Mar-
chenko, was the real Ivan
the Terrible.
Last June, the 6th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals in
Cincinnati, on its own in-
itiative, ordered a probe on
whether OSI prosecutors
concealed documents that
might have buttressed Mr.
Demjanjuk's claim.
The court appointed U.S.
District Judge Thomas
Wiseman Jr., of Nashville,
as a special master to
oversee the investigation.
Between 1977 and 1986,
the U.S. government made
its case against Mr. Demjari-
juk in three sequential
phases, first denaturaliza-
tion, then deportation, and
finally extradition to Israel.
The primary charges and
evidence against Mr. Dem-
janjuk were introduced in

the first phase, and then
formed the basis of the next
two phases.
Mr. Einhorn, now a federal
immigration judge, took the
stand for three hours.
Although he was the OSI's_.4
lead attorney in the deporta-
tion phase, he said* he had
hardly any involvement
with the earlier
denaturalization pro-
ceedings, and therefore
would not have been privy to A
evidence introduced at that
time.
During questioning by his
own attorney, Jeffrey
Mausner, and Justice
Department attorney Dana
Biehl, Mr. Einhorn was ask-
ed whether he had known of
any documents that could
have cleared Mr.. Demjan-
juk.
Mr. Einhorn replied,
"Absolutely not."
To the question, "Did you
have any doubts during he
deportation hearings that
Demjanjuk was Ivan the

A federal judge

took the stand for
three hours.

Terrible, who operated the
gas chambers at Treblinka?"
Mr. Einhorn responded,
"None."
Mr. Einhorn is a Los
Angeles lay leader of the
Anti-Defamation League
and heads its regional civil
rights committee.
In more than four hours of
questioning Jan. 29, Mr.
Ryan, now an attorney for
Harvard University,
testified that the first time
he saw a February 1980
memo from former OSI at-
torney George Parker to
Walter Rockler, former di-
rector of the Nazi-hunting
unit, and himself, was in Oc-
tober 1992.
Mr. Ryan said the memo
contained such statements
as "even if we may be com-
forted as having the right
man for the wrong act" and
"even though we doubt that
Ivan was at the gas
chambers."
Mr. Ryan explained that
he was certain he had not
seen the memo before 1992
because, "I found the things
said and the assumptions
made so unacceptable that,
had I seen it in 1980, I would
have set Parker straight,"

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