The office of Sen., Jacob K. Javits (R.N.Y.) has denied to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that it or Javits had pressured a federal prosecutor to succeed in deporting a convicted former Nazi guard who now lives here. A spokesman said only routine inquiries had been made to ascertain the nature of the case. Javits’ office replied to a JTA inquiry stemming from a charge made here by John J. Barry, attorney for Mrs. Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan, that the Senator and other, unnamed legislators had pressured Vincent Schiano of the Immigration and Naturalization Service with “a ton of correspondence” insisting that Mrs. Ryan be deported.
Barry made the charge to the JTA on March 21 at the deportation hearing here; the proceedings were postponed that day to allow the attorneys to gather witnesses’ depositions, which they are still doing. Mrs. Ryan, who was convicted in Austria in 1946 of torturing prisoners at Ravensbrueck and Maidanek, lost her American citizenship last Sept, for having failed to note the conviction on her application.
Schiano told the JTA that he has not seen Javits in 20 years and has had no contact with Javits’ office on the case. But he acknowledged that some “Jewish circles” were “pressuring” the government–though not him personally, to have Mrs. Ryan deported.
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