Danny Sheehan person
also: Sheehan, Danny Shahan
Explore in graph → Export claims (CSV) ↓
Related entities (most co-mentioned)
CIAintelligence service · 5Ted Shackleyperson · 5Christic Instituteorganization · 4Iran-Contra affairevent · 3Karen Silkwoodperson · 2LaPenta bombingevent · 2Irancountry · 2Karen Silkwood caseevent · 2Rudy Endersperson · 2Vietnamcountry · 2Romero Instituteorganization · 2Oliver Northperson · 2Pentagon Papers caseevent · 2Carl Elmer Jenkinsperson · 2Gene Wheatonperson · 2Otto Skorzenyperson · 2Mexicocountry · 1Vang Paoperson · 1Danny Casolaroperson · 1Eden Pastoraperson · 1Silkwoodbook · 1Jack Siegelperson · 1Mark Lombardiperson · 1Reinhard Gehlenperson · 1
Claims (6)
Danny Sheehan member_of
Christic Institute book_quoted
“was then a social activist attorney for the Christic Institute, a public interest law firm that he co-founded in 1979 with his wife and a Jesuit priest. After the successful conclusion of his case on the Karen Silkwood case, he became famou…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 16:39
Danny Sheehan exposed
Iran-Contra affair book_quoted
“for this entire apparatus. Sheehan would be unsuccessful in this effort with his supporters claiming it was because the intelligence agency didn't want to reveal their dirty laundry, while his critics said it was because Sheehan was deluded…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 22:50
Danny Sheehan asserted
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“activities of a massive drug smuggling political assassination and ultimately supervised a team of people who assassinated the president of the United States, JFK, unquote. Sheehan also asserted that Shackley was the protege of Nazi Major R…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 29:54
Danny Sheehan headed
Romero Institute host_asserted
“opposing operations, which had their own issues at Standing Rock. The Romero Institute is a project of Danny Sheehan, a Jesuit-backed lawyer who had had another notable brush in the spotlight. In the wake of Iran-Contra, he sued Jack Single…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Dave Troy’s article Part 2 @ 29:28
Danny Sheehan headed
Christic Institute host_asserted
“opposing operations, which had their own issues at Standing Rock. The Romero Institute is a project of Danny Sheehan, a Jesuit-backed lawyer who had had another notable brush in the spotlight. In the wake of Iran-Contra, he sued Jack Single…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Dave Troy’s article Part 2 @ 29:28
Danny Sheehan exposed
Catholic Church host_asserted
“A woman named Rachel Begley found it in 2007 when she wondered about her father's 1981 murder in Southern California. Danny Sheehan of the Jesuit Romero Institute is still talking about it. Supporters of Smedley Butler even talked about it …”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Dave Troy’s article Part 2 @ 36:32
Mentions (25)
▶ 16:11
from the coast that stretched over to the Cambodian border. Enders became Gregg's deputy for all paramilitary operations. Enders had ended up at the National War College, where he taught CIA black arts to field grade officers. Daniel Sheeha…
▶ 16:39
was then a social activist attorney for the Christic Institute, a public interest law firm that he co-founded in 1979 with his wife and a Jesuit priest. After the successful conclusion of his case on the Karen Silkwood case, he became famou…
▶ 17:07
dealt with Catholic workers providing sanctuary to refugees that were fleeing the counterinsurgency that the CIA was doing under the direction of Rudy Enders. And they had been directing and funding it. It was headquartered in Washington, D…
▶ 29:28
opposing operations, which had their own issues at Standing Rock. The Romero Institute is a project of Danny Sheehan, a Jesuit-backed lawyer who had had another notable brush in the spotlight. In the wake of Iran-Contra, he sued Jack Single…
▶ 36:32
A woman named Rachel Begley found it in 2007 when she wondered about her father's 1981 murder in Southern California. Danny Sheehan of the Jesuit Romero Institute is still talking about it. Supporters of Smedley Butler even talked about it …
▶ 2:01:31
Mr. Burkholder Smith, Deputy Station Chief of Mexico City, and his statements. He was taken to Argentina to meet with two Nazis working with the CIA on drugs trade with Theodore Shackley, linked to Iran, Contra, etc. to keep his job in the …
▶ 18:39
was a lawyer named Danny Sheehan. S-H-E-E-H-A-N. It was ironic, in a way, as Sheehan started out his adult life wanting to become a Green Beret, taking Roxy classes at Northeastern University in 1964. However, Sheehan became disgruntled by …
▶ 19:07
He eventually served as general counsel to the Jesuit office in Washington, D.C., and spent much of the time considering becoming a Jesuit priest. Sheehan often joked that in the role, he was the beneficiary of the CIA, the Catholic intelli…
▶ 19:35
Danny Sheehan worked on many high-profile cases, including the Pentagon paper case, detailing nearly 40 years of government lying about Vietnam, and the Karen Silkwood case, the nuclear plant employee who had uncovered safety problems and t…
▶ 20:00
Although Sheehan's role in these cases is a matter of public record and to many shining examples of a search for truth, Sheehan sees those cases differently. While the Pentagon paper case in which the New York Times and Washington Post join…
▶ 20:30
Sheehan claims the intelligence agency kept the most explosive information from those revelations, namely the CIA's participation in the Phoenix program. And the Karen Silkwood case turned into an Oscar-winning 1984 film, Silkwood with Mery…
▶ 20:53
The movie itself plays out as Streep trying to get the truth of unsafe practices at a nuclear plant and encountering corporate evil. While the part was true, according to Sheehan, there was another level to it. Namely, the nuclear material …
▶ 21:20
discover information about what Reagan administration was doing in Central America and linked it back to the intelligence officials he'd been pursuing for decades, it seemed as if he had found a way to go after what he perceived the America…
▶ 21:50
supporting the Contras, conducting covert activities elsewhere. Drugs were involved. Some of this gang had engaged in corrupt government business in Iran and Southeast Asia. Now, the same old boys were running weapons to Latin America. Cent…
▶ 22:20
became central to a cause Sheehan would pursue for the next several years, namely that Shackley was the center of a quote-unquote secret team of former CIA assassins available around the world for sale to the highest bidder. And I just want…
▶ 22:50
for this entire apparatus. Sheehan would be unsuccessful in this effort with his supporters claiming it was because the intelligence agency didn't want to reveal their dirty laundry, while his critics said it was because Sheehan was deluded…
▶ 23:22
talked to Wheaton and Jenkins, he had something else on his mind, a two-year-old bombing in Nicaragua. On May 30, 1984, a bomb had exploded at a press conference in Nicaragua that was being held by Eden Pastora, P-A-S-T-O-R-A, a maverick Co…
▶ 24:47
They used it night and day. In a relationship with North and the CIA, their report noted that some of the Contra supporters were moonlighting in the drug trade. They weren't moonlighting, that was the entire purpose of it. Sheehan's investi…
▶ 25:16
which I find has echoes of what I read in the news every day. I understand that in the eyes of many, Sheehan's claims have been dismissed, but for me, I still consider the accusations an open question. They're not even a question. Quote, in…
▶ 28:34
When the Reagan administration decided to sell arms secretly to Iran, the White House turned to the professionals, which was Shackley's secret team, unquote. While the allegations by Sheehan were detailed, they were never proven. Whether on…
▶ 29:00
Sheehan's accusations have strong partisans and equally strong detractors. And it's weird to me, I'm just going to say this out loud, there's so many books that document all of this with witnesses, like the guy that survived the plane crash…
▶ 29:27
But I find it weird that he's saying that it's still an open question. We interviewed Sheehan for this book in 2024, and it is what he had to say of Shackley that was of interest to the author. Quote, he was the most malignant individual pe…
▶ 29:54
activities of a massive drug smuggling political assassination and ultimately supervised a team of people who assassinated the president of the United States, JFK, unquote. Sheehan also asserted that Shackley was the protege of Nazi Major R…
▶ 32:54
even if it meant selling arms to a country they derided as a terrorist state or promoting a war in the jungles of Central America, unquote. What is left unsaid is that while Shackley's life did encompass a great deal of the Cold War, the Am…
▶ 10:25
establishing the Phoenix assassination program in Vietnam, estimated to have killed 40,000 Vietnamese. The Kennedy assassination and the Watergate scandal, the part he played in the Iran-Contra scandal, which nearly brought down the entire …