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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400270002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Content Type: PREL

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(RYAN)
CPYRGHT
INFORMED SOURCES TOLD HOW TRUE LOVE--WITH A TIMELY ASSIST FROM
CONGRESS--TRIUMPHED OVER CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY RED TAPE IN THE
CASE OF JUAN J. RYAN, 27, AND HIS IRISH COLLEEN BRIDE.
RYAN WAS FIRST FIRED FRDM THE CIA AND THEN REHIRED AFTER SOME
CONGRESSMEN WENT TO BAT FOR HIM. THE CHAR}E WAS THAT HE WAS GUILTY OF
A "DEVIATION FROM REGULATIONS" WHEN HE MARRIED AN IRISH IMMIGRANT LASS
WITHOUT WAITING FOR THE CIA TO COMPLETE A SECURITY CHECK OF HER
BACKGRX ND.
RYAN, THE SON OF MR. AND MRS. THOMAS RYAN OF SOUTH ORANGE, N..J.,
WAS NOTIFIED BY CIA ABOUT 12 DAYS AGO THAT "HIS SERVICES WERE NO
LONGER NEEDED."
REP. HUGH J. ADDONIZIO (D-N. J.) PROMPTLY CALLED FOR A CONGRESSIONAL
INVESTIGATION OF RYAN'S FIRING. HE SAID "IT APPARED THAT THE SOLE
REASON FOR THE DISMISSAL WAS THAT RYAN HAD MARRIED AN IRISH
IMMIGRANT." THE HOUSE AINED SERVICES COMMITTEE DEMANDED FRIDAY THE
CIA REPORT "THE FACTS" BEHIND THE DISCHARGE.
IT WAS LEARNED THAT COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN CARL VINSON (D-GA.) LATER MET
WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CIA TO "DISCUSS THE CASE- 11
AFTER THE MEETING, RYAN RECEIVED WORD THAT HIS TERMINATION NOTICE
WAS CANCELLED. HE WAS REINSTATED IN HIS JOB YESTERDAY. THE CIA GAVE
NO REASON FOR TIM REVERSAL. A CIA SPOKESMAN NOTED THAT THE AGENCY "DOES
NOT MAKE PUBLIC THE REASON WHY IT HIRES AN INDIVIDUAL, OR THE REASONS
FOR TER4INATING HIS EMPLOYMENT-11
HOWEVER, INFORMED SOURCES TOLD THE UNITED PRESS THAT THE RYAN DIS-
MISSAL WAS BASED ON A "DEVIATION FROM REGULATIONS."
RYAN HAD PUT IN AN APPLICATION TO HAVE HIS FUTURE BRIDE--PHILOMENA
O'NEIL, FORMERLY OF THE CITY OF TRALEE, IRELAND--GIVEN A SECURITY
CLEARANCE FOR ALL IMMIGRANT SPOUSES.
HE WAS "GIVEN TO UNDERSTAND" THE SECURITY CHECK HAD BEEN APPROVED.
.OW EVER, THE SOURCES SAID, TWO DAYS BEFORE THE WEDDING, WHICH TOOK
PLACE ABOUT A MONTH AGO IN NEW YOLK, HE WAS TOLD THE CHECK "(HAD NOT
N APPROVED."
RYAN GOT MARRIED ANYWAY.
THE CIA GAVE HIM NOTICE OF DISMISSAL, AND THE PROTEST WAS MADE ON
APITOL HILL.
ADDONIZIO TOLD THE UNITED PRESS RYAN'S REINS
TATEMENT "SEEMS THE FAIR
flING ?10 DO."
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