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 immigration of a "small roomful of people at the very most," Ryan is convinced that loose enforcement of US laws, such as the Displaced Persons Act of 1950, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, and the Refugee Relief Act of 1953 permitted far greater numbers of Nazi war criminals and collaborators to enter the United States through legal means than any covert US intelligence project. (U)

Ryan also criticized much of the literature dealing with US Government collusion with Nazis. "From time to time in the past few years, books or other accounts have appeared claiming to expose some newly-discovered conspiracy by CIA, or the military, or a cabal of lawless bureaucrats, to bring Nazi collaborators to the United States after the war." "These accounts," according to Ryan, "have offered dubious evidence and have been unable to survive any objective analysis." In his role as director of the Office of Special Investigations, Ryan wrote, "no Federal agency, including the CIA, ever objected to any prosecution or tried to call off any investigation." (U)

Since the 1970s, the Central Intelligence Agency, in fact, has been one of the leading government agencies involved in the investigation of Nazi war criminals. The Office of General Counsel (OGC), the Directorate of Operations (DO), the Office of Security (OS), and other components of CIA have worked closely with the Office of