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good morning my name is Daniel Sheehan

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I'm an attorney and serving as general

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counsel to the disclosure project I'm a

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1967 graduate of Harvard College and

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American government studies and

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constitutional law in a graduate of

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Harvard Law School and I served as

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general counsel and one of the

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co-counsel for the New York Times in the

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Pentagon Papers case and was involved in

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briefing and arguing the case in front

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of United States Supreme Court giving

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permission to the New York Times to

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publish the classified documents the 47

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volumes of the Pentagon Papers

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subsequent to that time I served as

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special counsel to the office of F lee

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Bailey as one of the trial counsels when

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we represented james mccord in the

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Watergate burglary and got mr. McCord to

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write the letter to judge sarika to

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reveal the water have the Watergate

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burglars relationship to the plumbers

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unit in the in the white house at that

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time subsequent to my service in that

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case I went back to Harvard to the

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divinity school to study judeo-christian

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social ethics and Public Policy did my

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masters work in PhD work there and

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became general counsel for the United

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States Jesuit headquarters in Washington

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DC assigned to the national social

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ministries office in their public policy

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office it was there in 1967 1977 that I

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was contacted by ms marsha smith who was

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the director of the science and

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technology division of the Congressional

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Research Service she asked to meet with

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me and I met with her and she informed

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me that President Carter upon taking

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office in January of 1977 held a meeting

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with in the director of Central

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Intelligence who was george bush senior

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and demanded that

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the director of Central Intelligence

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turn over to the president the

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classified information about

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unidentified flying objects and the

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information that was in the possession

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of the United States intelligence

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community concerning the existence of

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extraterrestrial intelligence this

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information was refused to the President

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of the United States by the director of

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Central Intelligence george bush senior

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the director insisted that the president

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in order to have access to this

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information needed to have clearance

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through contact the Congressional

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Research Service to contact the United

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States House of Representative science

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and technology division to have them

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undertake a process to declassify this

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information because the DCI suspected

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that the president was preparing to

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reveal this information to the American

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public the Congressional Research

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Service science and technology division

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under the directorship of marshal Smith

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was contacted by the House Science and

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Technology Committee instructed to

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undertake a major investigation of the

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existence of extraterrestrial

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intelligence and the relationship of the

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UFO phenomenon to this I was contacted

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by Miss Smith and asked in my capacity

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as general counsel to United States

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Jesuit headquarters national social

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ministry office to see if we could

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obtain access to the Vatican Library to

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obtain information that the Vatican had

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with regard of extraterrestrial

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intelligence and the phenomenon of the

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UFOs I pursued that with the permission

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of father william j davis the director

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of the national office and we were

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refused access as the united states

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jesuit order to the information in the

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possession of the vatican library when I

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reported this to ms smith she then later

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subsequently asked me to participate in

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a project which I can go into some

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detail during the question-and-answer

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period or later two individuals pursuant

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to which I was

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given access to as a special consultant

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to the United States Library of Congress

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congressional research service to the

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classified portions of the blue book

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project of the Air Force at that point

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it was in 1977 approximately may of

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nineteen seventy-seven i went to the

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madison building of the United States

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Library of Congress that there was no

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one in the building at that time it was

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brand new I was directed to a basement

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office where there were two guards at

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the door and a third sitting at the

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table who took my identification

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verified that I've been designated as a

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special consultant to the Congressional

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Research Service of the United States

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Library of Congress and was admitted to

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the room I thereupon found photographs

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some dozen photographs of what is

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unquestionably a nut identified flying

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object on the ground that had crashed in

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plowed a furrow in a field of snow and

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it was embedded in a bank an embankment

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there were united states air force

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personnel surrounding this craft taking

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photographs of the craft and one of the

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photographs I could see that there were

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some symbols on the side of the craft so

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I proceeded through the photographs and

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found a close-up photograph of these

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symbols I've been instructed that I was

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to take no notes and had to leave my

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briefcase and all my identification

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outside of this room but I had brought

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with me a yellow pad and so what I did

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is I opened up the yellow pad and

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refocused the overhead camera onto the

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same size as the the cardboard backing

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of the yellow pad and I physically

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traced the copies of the symbols on the

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side of this craft closed the yellow pad

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back put the the microfiche back into

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the canister reclosed the box that I had

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and I said it is time for me to leave

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and I took this in proceeded to leave

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the office at which point the security

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guard stopped me and one of them said

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is that you have there mr. Sheehan which

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part I handed the yellow pad to him and

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he flipped through all the yellow pages

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and never found the copy that I had and

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so I took that with me and brought it to

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the United States Jesuit headquarters

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had a meeting with the staff with father

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William Jay Davis reported this to them

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was authorized at that time by the

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United States Jesuit headquarters to

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make a report to the national council of

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churches and to request that the United

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the entire 54 major religious

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denominations of our country undertake a

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major study of extraterrestrial

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intelligence which they declined to do I

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was subsequently asked to deliver a

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three-hour closed-door seminar to the

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top 50 scientists of the Jet Propulsion

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Laboratory of setting the search for

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extraterrestrial intelligence which I

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did do in 1977 I'm more than happy to

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testify under oath to these details the

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United States Congress and would be

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happy to meet with any members of the

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press at that time you may recall I also

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served as chief counsel to the karen

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silkwood case in which we obtained the

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rulings in the karen silkwood case I

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also served as chief counsel in the

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iran-contra case was the first one to

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testify before the United States

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Congress to the existence of the

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off-the-shelf enterprise of Richard C

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chord and Albert hakin I'll be more than

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happy to share the details of what I

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believe to be the relationship between

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this off-the-shelf enterprise and the

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secret government which is concealing

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this information from the American

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public and I am happy and proud to serve

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as general counsel to the disclosure

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project thank you very much

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you