Philip Heymann person
also: Philip Heyman, Heyman
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Claims (4)
Philip Heymann member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“His father owned an insurance agency. He's a graduate of Pittsburgh private school named the Shadyside Academy. They should all be called the Shadyside Academy, right? You should. He goes to Yale, gets tapped, scrolling key. And once again,…”
▶ The Shadow State 64 The Diplomats @ 44:26
Philip Heymann member_of
Office of Special Investigations host_asserted
“Yeah, and we do that by sending him to Sorbonne in Paris to study from 1954 to 55. Spends two years in the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations, where his job was to review security clearances. Kind of important gatekeeper position.…”
▶ The Shadow State 64 The Diplomats @ 44:55
Philip Heymann member_of
Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs host_asserted
“This guy is arguing in front of the Supreme Court. He argued six cases on his own at a very young age. 1965, he leaves the Solicitor General's office and he becomes a deputy in the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs for the State Depar…”
▶ The Shadow State 64 The Diplomats @ 46:03
Philip Heymann member_of
Archibald Cox host_asserted
“At the Harvard Law of a gentleman by the name of Archibald Cox. Huh. Archibald Cox then gets, shortly thereafter, is confirmed special counsel for Watergate. Heyman is one of the few faculty members he asks to join him. Of course. So one of…”
▶ The Shadow State 64 The Diplomats @ 50:41
Mentions (18)
▶ 43:53
a program that basically perpetuates the dialogue between it. Yeah, he's an interesting guy. But he's a really good example of all the right connections and just spent his entire time in the State Department. Yeah. All right, let's get to o…
▶ 44:26
His father owned an insurance agency. He's a graduate of Pittsburgh private school named the Shadyside Academy. They should all be called the Shadyside Academy, right? You should. He goes to Yale, gets tapped, scrolling key. And once again,…
▶ 44:55
Yeah, and we do that by sending him to Sorbonne in Paris to study from 1954 to 55. Spends two years in the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations, where his job was to review security clearances. Kind of important gatekeeper position.…
▶ 45:29
Harlan wrote a couple of opinions at that point in time that I'm very much in agreement with. He was involved with my favorite case, which is, of course, Reynolds v. Sims. But this guy clerked for him. So not just anybody gets to clerk for …
▶ 46:03
This guy is arguing in front of the Supreme Court. He argued six cases on his own at a very young age. 1965, he leaves the Solicitor General's office and he becomes a deputy in the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs for the State Depar…
▶ 46:35
consulates all over the world, the actual physical security. The only, he has literally no experience at doing this, zero. You can't even consider, depending on what he actually did at OSI, so for people who don't know, NCIS, OSI is the equ…
▶ 47:02
I wouldn't call them covert operations, but they do do that. They will come to your base pretending to be a staff sergeant in a particular squadron to basically infiltrate that squadron if there's allegations of wrongdoing there. So they ar…
▶ 47:30
for something that significant at the state department with literally no experience yeah that struck me too such a young age too in fact he was there for a year at consular affairs before he became the acting administrator again with no exp…
▶ 48:00
regime change operations going on. And this would be a critical role because if you're going to overthrow governments in foreign countries like we did in Brazil in the 60s, that job becomes really significant because of the blowback. Like w…
▶ 48:30
But yeah, that's a huge role. Indeed. And again, how old is he? Not very. It's 1965. I said he was born what year? 1932. So he's 33 years old. That's crazy. With no experience. See, he issued a reprimand to the head of a passport office for…
▶ 49:00
anti-nuclear activist H. Stuart Hughes. The Bureau would then learn that the FBI had been making surveillance requests for two decades without the FBI director's knowledge. Look, that's the sinkhole. And Heyman's part of uncovering that. Th…
▶ 49:33
They've been spying on the American people. Yep. In 1967, he becomes the executive assistant to Undersecretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach. He pushed for review of the denial of security clearance of John Patton Davies. Davies was an old C…
▶ 50:06
And Heyman comes in there and gets this guy's clearance finally reinstated after 14 years. Now, John Foster Dulles and Alan Dulles are no longer in their positions at the time. He then goes to Harvard Law as a visiting professor to teach in…
▶ 50:41
At the Harvard Law of a gentleman by the name of Archibald Cox. Huh. Archibald Cox then gets, shortly thereafter, is confirmed special counsel for Watergate. Heyman is one of the few faculty members he asks to join him. Of course. So one of…
▶ 51:16
They were mad at Cox because he didn't get them to brief him before his own Senate hearings of confirmation. So there's a little bit of a problem with territoriality of the U.S. attorneys. They were worried that their criminal cases were go…
▶ 51:44
Dean, testify in front of the Senate because you're going to mess up our criminal cases. But it was half-hearted. Heyman got to take the loss. And he wanted to make sure to emphasize, we're not trying to hide anything from the public. They …
▶ 52:18
He was right there during all the Watergate stuff. He kind of came into the background once all the Deep Throat stuff started coming out. The rest of his career is not very remarkable. He died of a stroke in 2021 at the age of 89. Interesti…
▶ 52:52
Did you click on his son? No, I don't have it handy. Go ahead. So his son is Stephen Heyman, who becomes an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts. I find this very interesting. Heyman is infamous for his role in U.S. v. …