Alleged CIA assassination authorization. See slideshow for more images
On July 13, the New York Times ran a story about the CIA running an assassination squad using U.S military special forces against foreign terrorists without Congressional approval on the orders of former Vice President Dick Cheney. The Times story confirms claims by Seymour Hersh in March 2009 that an assassination squad had been created that reported directly to Cheney using special forces personnel. The covert CIA project was shut down by CIA Director Leon Panetta when he learned of it on June 23. Details of the project were passed on the next day to the U.S. Congress and led to furor over the reports. A statement by seven members of the House Intelligence Committee concerning the CIA misleading Congress was subsequently released. The covert CIA program allegedly began in 2001 soon after the 911 attacks. The unfolding revelations of CIA death squads using U.S. military special forces personnel coincides with the online release of video testimony of a former U.S. Navy SEAL who said he was recruited to perform 18 assassination assignments for the CIA. If true, the SEAL’s testimony reveals that covert assassinations predate the 911 attacks, and also targeted U.S. citizens. Curiously, the assassinations were related to covert projects Dick Cheney was allegedly involved in when he was Secretary of Defense for George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1993.
Connor O’Ryan was a pseudonym used by Derek Hennessy who claims in video testimony recorded in 1991, that he performed covert missions for the CIA in the 1980s assassinating enemies of the United States. After joining the U.S. Navy in the early 1980s, O’Ryan/Hennessy claims he joined the elite SEALs and was eventually tasked to perform his covert assassination missions. He said that targets of the assassination hits even included U.S. citizens. He described his 18th and final mission as a sergeant for the U.S. Army Green Berets stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Budapest, Hungary.
O’Ryan’s/Hennessy’s extraordinary claims were investigated over a ten year period by a retired Lt Colonel with the U.S. Air Force, Wendelle Stevens. During his investigation, Stevens was able to confirm Hennessy’s military I.D. and that he was assigned to the CIA performing covert missions. Concerned that O’Ryan/Hennessy may have been part of an intelligence operation to discredit him, Stevens did not release the initial results of his investigation until 2001. Video testimony of O’Ryan/Hennessy is included in a set of interviews conducted with Stevens currently being released on the internet. In the interviews, Steven’s discussed documents he had in his possession verifying Hennessy’s covert CIA missions. One document was apparently written on CIA letter head (see above graphic) with instructions for O/Ryan/Hennessy on his last mission. Steven’s read out the document’s contents as follows: “You are to report to the American Embassy in Budapest, Hungary. You will be received by S.A. Greywolf. As a unit you will proceed to terminate an ex S.A. David T. Johnson.”
According to Stevens, the document was O’Ryan’s/Hennessy’s final hit order one month before he left his final assignment at a secret facility in Nevada. Another document is O’Ryan’s/Hennessy’s W-2 salary statement that showed he was earning $74,000 for the CIA. Though only a sergeant he was earning the equivalent of a colonel’s salary at the time. Steven’s was able to confirm that the serial number and code word on the W-2 were active through an anonymous FBI source. On the video Stevens mistakenly refers to the salary statement as a W-4, but a copy of the W-2 is clearly shown (see slide show) .
Combined with O’Ryan’s/Hennessy’s recorded video testimony, the documents, if genuine, would be smoking gun evidence that a CIA assassination squad using U.S. military personnel predated 2001 and even targeted U.S. citizens. To date, neither of the documents has been released to the public. Only video images are available. Independent document authentication still has to be conducted.
The confirmation of the W-2 by an anonymous FBI contact of Stevens is powerful support for the legitimacy of O’Brian’s/Hennessy’s story. There is good reason, however, to be skeptical about the CIA hit order document’s legitimacy. It is difficult to accept that the CIA would be so explicit in putting on CIA stationary orders to terminate a serving U.S. military non-commissioned officer. One could reasonably argue that such orders, if put on paper, would be done in a more cryptic manner without the CIA logo. This would be consistent with an Assassination Directive that former CIA Director Allen Dulles allegedly drafted in 1961, and was later authorized by a group responsible for covert operations called Majestic-12. The alleged Dulles’ Assassination Directive used the cryptic phrase “it should be wet” as a code word for assassinations designed to protect Majestic-12 operations.
If indeed there has been a CIA assassination program that predates 2001, it may originate from Dulles 1961 draft Assassination Directive. The directive was allegedly received by the chief of CIA counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton in 1961, and subsequently linked to the President Kennedy Assassination. If O’Connor/Hennessy did eliminate a serving Green Beret in Budapest in 1991 as he claims, then the authority for such an assassination may derive from Dulles’ 1961 draft Assassination Directive.
If O’Ryan’s/Hennessy’s CIA hit order letter is a hoax, that raises an equally perplexing question. Why would Wendelle Stevens, a long time researcher of the UFO phenomenon, be targeted in an elaborate intelligence operation to discredit him with a contrived story about CIA assassins using elite military special forces personnel in 1991? O’Ryan/Hennessy spent an extended period hiding with Stevens and associates while allegedly on the run. During this time, a series of events occurred that persuaded those giving shelter to O’Ryan/Hennessy that he was genuinely being monitored and threatened to return voluntarily to his program. Eventually, O’Ryan/Hennessy disappeared and has never been heard of again.
If O’Ryan’s/Hennessy’s testimony is even partially correct, as Stevens’ confirmation of his W-2 suggests, it would confirm the existence of an assassination team run by the CIA prior to 2001. His testimony reveals that even U.S. citizens were eliminated due to agendas of a highly classified covert operations run out of the CIA. O’Ryan/Hennessy himself apparently become a target when he shared his information with Stevens and this may have been related to his disappearance.
For the last nine months of his military service during his final assassination missions, Hennessy was assigned to a covert facility in Nevada called S-4 to perform sentry duty for a highly classified covert project. It was there that he witnessed Dick Cheney arrive one day for an inspection for a project maintaining the secrecy of which was related to his earlier assassination missions.
To be continued: Cheney taken inside S-4 to view flying saucers & EBE bodies
[Authors Note: I thank Lt Col Wendelle Stevens (USAF, ret.) and Rick Keefe for their assistance in confirming details of this article. The video is available online: Vol 1; Vol 2. More information about the video and its production is available at: http://ufohypotheses.com/]
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AH yes.. flying saucers, ebe bodies, and Majestic 12 - that secret cabal of Military leaders, Scientists, government officials, supposedly formed in 1947 by order of Truman to investigate UFO activity. I knew that had to make its way into this piece of nonsense.
Welcome to the fictional stories often recounted by Alex Jones. Various storylines & subplots in tv series such as The X Files & one of my fave's "DARK SKIES " were based on the dubious Majestic 12.
Most everything about MJ12 is contrived, and the briefing documents and letter purportedly written by Truman have been proven to be fakes!
Dems must be extremely desperate to be relying on this nonsense in order to discredit Cheney and the CIA.
Incredible how people lap up this crap. There's a sucker born every minute.
Kindly show us a substantive proof of fakery with links to back up your comments, or we will have to reach for our handy "troll be gone" spray.
I have verified no one named "Connor O’Ryan" or "Derek Hennessy" ever graduated BUD/S and therefore was never a Navy SEAL.
Additionally, the statement, "After joining the U.S. Navy as a marine in the early 1980s, O’Ryan/Hennessy claims he joined the elite Navy SEALs" is so screwed up it only demonstrates how fraudulent the entire story is. Since when do you join the Navy to be a Marine only to then be a SEAL. Ridiculous!
CAPT G USN (ret)
I also wonder about joining the Marines to become a Navy seal. There is, however, pretty reliable evidence that the Bush administration carried out an illegal assassination program. This has been confirmed by Seymour Hersh. Further, I have run across other evidence of assassination programs carried out by previous administrations. I would not discount the above information as garbage. If you would like to do further research into some of the previous administrations all you would have to do is Google Chip Tatum. The above article might not be 100% accurate but it certainly bears more looking into.
To: Real Navy Seal. There is some confusion here that needs to be cleared up. According to Hennessy/O'Connor, (Utube Vol 1, part 2) he joined the Navy in the early 1980s, became a Naval Seal, worked in special ops for Naval Intel for 8/9 years, and was then transferred to S-4. On Utube segment 4, vol 1, and elsewhere, Wendelle Stevens says that O'Ryan/Hennessy was a Marine, became a Seal and then became a Black Seal. That's where the confusion comes up. I haven't found any military service corresponding to a "Black Seal". I think the marine connection that Wendelle Stevens (former USAF) mentioned is a mistaken recollection on his part since I don't recall O'Ryan Hennessy saying he was a Marine during the interviews. I've removed the reference to the marines from the article. Thanks for pointing out the confusion.
If the man's story is correct, his mistake was to leak about the assassinations without leaking his S-4 info, which would be more interesting. He may have left himself open to being silenced, along with his further info. What did he allegedly do at S-4? Maybe Wendelle heard something?
SEAL is an acronym and capatilized. Marine also begins with a "M" as it indicates a member of the USMC. Sloppy work.
There should be no confusion as O'Ryan/Hennessy never graduated from BUD/S and was never a SEAL.
LT D USN Ret
This guys an is probably a liar. I dont know of alot of military personnel who would confuse a W-2. Let alone there is a computer at the Naval Special Warfare Center that has the name of EVERY BUDS class that graduated and if this guys not on it which Im gonna agree with the two Real SEALs on here who say he isnt this guys a liar he was never a SEAL and hes probably lying about everything else.
PO2 USN
Got a two dollar parrot shoots about the same amount of chit.
The CIA hired BlackWater for these operations, not Special Forces. PMCs arent open to the freedom of information act since their a private company.
Many people confuse Special Forces for any elite unit, Special Forces refers to the US Army Special Forces (their mainly refered to by their nickname The Green Berets.) Navy SEALs are Special Operations, not special forces and the CIA uses Special Activities Division (SAD) for covert actions not Navy SEALS.
P.S. There not going to send a SEAL to guard an Air Force base. Thats what USAF Security Forces are for.
SEALs are for Direct Action missions and counter and anti-terror missions not guard duty.
Besides which, the whole spin on Sy Hersh's piece is bull. Sy and CIA Director Leon Panetta both have stated the program never became operational.
That's even supported by Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater/Xe/USTC.
I am a republican, but to anyone who thinks that this stuff doesn't happen, you are crazy. The world is in absolute disarray these days. Who the heck do you think the CIA is going to when they need a job done that is shady? You think they are going to someone who knows full well what they are doing? Do you think they are going to go to someone that has a moral problem with shooting a Green Beret in cold blood? OF COURSE this happens. You can lie to yourself and tell yourself we live in a MORAL world. But we DO NOT. It is survival of the fittest out there and the Lion will always eat the rat!
i understand why do i have to babysit and you know what i mean
The CIA will recruit a SEAL or two depending on the situation. SEALS are ALL ROUNDED and can take on any job they need done, while CIA is more of Stealth, Intel, and assassinations of sorts. This stuff does go on in the cold world we know. KEEP YOUR MIND OPEN
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