CIA AGENT WINS REVIEW OF FIRING

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400270006-9
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 1999
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WASHINGTON, March 15-
The government's cloak and
dagger Central Intelligence
Agency today ~ ajreed to re-
view ,its action jai' dismissing
ne of Its agents from South
range, N. J., for marrying an
The decisio ?, 'by the CIA
e in the egof congres-
ioipl rom both
files o o ill for an
xplanation o the dismissal
otice handed to Juan Ryan
any this week,
A spokesman for the top-
,wins revtew.o
cret intell g nce agency' said I cleared her as a security risk 1 justifies this action;" Vinson
'an wo"id meet MAP-61. 09
puty director tomorrow for
full review of the case. Rep.
ugh Addonizio of Newark,
:-:Ryan was dismissed but
given 90 days In which to find
another job after marrying a
non-citizen _Irish immfgrsnt
last month. the marriage had
been approved by the CIA
after its security agents had
Two congressional commit- the CIA and will be pleased to
tees, the Senate dommittee on! do all I properly can do in re-
Constitutional Rights and the gard to this case."
mittee; added their objections tea two years ago under reg
to Addon!iio's early today. ular immigration procedures.
Rep. Cail nson (D.-Ga.), He has been employed by the
chairman of tare House group, CIA since last August when
and a repreSd itative of the he entered the agency's junior
Senate com1Yi'ee, both asked officer training program.
the t"1?A?to state what author- Before his marriage, Ryan:
Sty it had used in firing Ryan requested' permission to wed!
for marrying a non-citizen. ( and it was granted after the J'J
"I am unaware of the author- I security check was made into
his wife's ba..ground. Since
that time, however, the agency
instituted a policy of dismiss-
ing any employe who married
a ; non-citizen.
Addonizio_ attked the deci-
sion to tY*an ,"rounds
that it had been "made after
the new policy had been put
into effect, and after Mrs.
J Ryan had been cleared.
ing review of the case as the
only "natural and honest"
I course the CIA.could take. He
said he was confident the re-!'
view would bear out Ryan's'
fitness for his post and that
I the dismissal notice would be
rescinded.
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