Derek Hennessy 
aka Connor O’Ryan

http://www.examiner.com/x-2383-Honolulu-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m7d16-Testimony-of-CIA-assassin-recruited-from-Navy-SEALs-goes-online-with-documents

Testimony of CIA assassin recruited from Navy SEALs goes online with documents

July 16, 9:19 AM

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.....

[above link has the rest of the fairy tale.]

Dear POW Network,

I have been asked to verify/deny the military credentials of Mr. DEREK HENNESSY aka CONNOR O’RYAN to determine if the man was a bona fide US Navy SEAL. Mr. DEREK HENNESSY aka CONNOR O’RYAN has reportedly made claims of being a US Marine who claims to have been a SEAL, and an assassin for the CIA. These claims have been published in a news article online:

http://www.examiner.com/x-2383-Honolulu-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m7d16-Testimony-of-CIA-assassin-recruited-from-Navy-SEALs-goes-online-with-documents

Before answering your questions I must make clear that I am a private individual; I am not affiliated with the US Dept. of Defense or any other government organization. My efforts to expose SEAL imposters are performed as a service to the public, and in honor of my SEAL Teammates who gave their lives in service to our nation… men who truly earned the right to the title “US NAVY SEAL” but who are no longer able to stand forward in defense of their honor, their reputations, and their TEAMs.

I do NOT find a listing in the SEAL Database (end of WWII to the Present Day) for anyone named DEREK HENNESSY aka CONNOR O’RYAN. I have also examined possible alternate spellings, and names with similar pronunciations without finding any that appear to be applicable.

Unless he has undertaken the unlikely action of a legal name change (an action for which there would be evidence in the form of court documentation) since his claimed attendance at BUD/S training, and based upon the information I was provided, I can state conclusively that DEREK HENNESSY aka CONNOR O’RYAN has NEVER COMPLETED SEAL training, and he is not now, nor was he ever a Navy SEAL or a Navy UDT “Frogman”.

Also in that online article there is a link to an audio interview with Mr. WENDELLE STEVENS. In that audio interview Mr. STEVENS claims to have discovered and reported on CIA “Death Squads” involving assassination assignments which were purported to have been carried out by Mr. DEREK HENNESSY while using the alias CONNOR O’RYAN. In that interview Mr. STEVENS makes the following statement in reference to Mr. DEREK HENNESSY who claims to have been a Marine and a member of the Navy’s SEAL Teams.

 

"...[he stayed] in the Marines and kept trading up to a SEAL and then a BLACK SEAL status - which is the highest trained level that A MARINE can reach!"

 

The only men who can legitimately call themselves SEALs are US Navy sailors who have completed the entire SEAL training program which lasts approximately 2 years and who have received a formal/official designation as “Combatant Swimmer [SEAL]” with an attendant entry in their military records of a specific Naval Enlisted Classification Code (NEC). They carry the skill rating of “SO” – Special Warfare Operator. A special directive recently issued by the Department of Defense has permitted a scant few US Coast Guard personnel to apply for SEAL Training. None of those USCG personnel have graduated from SEAL Training as of this time (JULY 2009). Prior to this point in time there have never been any SEALs who were not US Navy personnel. At this writing there are no SEALs in any other branch of the US military armed forces. Additionally, there is no such classification or designation as a “BLACK SEAL”.

When members of the Naval Special Warfare community meet others who claim similar service, but whom they do not recognize, there is a conversational exchange of information that establishes the bona fides of each to the other. There is no set formula for this exchange, nor for the information that is exchanged, but it ALWAYS takes place, and the REAL Naval Special Warfare members can ALWAYS spot a phony as a result of this exchange. Mr. STEVENS has apparently failed to ask Mr. DEREK HENNESSY aka CONNOR O’RYAN the most basic of questions which would serve to positively verify his claims of SEAL service:

(1) Since there is no listing in the SEAL Database for the name you are currently using (DEREK HENNESSEY aka CONNOR O’RYAN), WHAT NAME DID YOU USE during SEAL training?

(2) What was your BUD/S Class Number? (NB: No SEAL ever forgets the class number he shouted all day long, every day, for 6 months)

(3) Where did your training take place?

(4) When did your graduate from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training? (i.e. a specific graduation DATE)

(5) When did you enter the US Navy - a specific month and year? (since only US Navy SAILORS can be SEALs)

(6) When did you leave the US Navy (a specific month and year)

(7) What was your rank at the time he left military service (including your Naval Enlisted Classification code –NEC– or your Naval Officer Billet Code – NOBC)

 

The answers to those questions are totally UNCLASSIFIED, and every real SEAL will gladly provide that substantiating information upon request.

No one gets to the SEAL Teams without first completing BUD/S Training. There are records of every man who has qualified for the title of “SEAL”; there have been and will continue to be secret missions, but there are NO secret SEALs… we know them all.

Mr. STEVENS has either failed completely to seek formal/official US NAVY confirmation of Mr. HENNESSEY aka O’RYAN’s claimed US Marine-cum-SEAL credentials, or has intentionally avoided doing so. Had he taken the time to contact the Public Affairs Office at the NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE COMMAND in Coronado, California, he would have learned that those claims were patently FALSE and that the other elements of the man’s story about being a US Marine but being trained and tasked with the “SEALs” and about being given a designation as a “BLACK SEAL” were also entirely fictitious.

It appears that Mr. STEVENS is using Mr. HENNESSEY aka O’RYAN’s false claims of MARINE-cum-SEAL-cum-CIA ASSASSIN status to pursue a political agenda in the press which is directed at discrediting members of the former Bush/Cheney administration. While I cannot presume to make any definitive statements with regard to his several claims regarding “CIA Death Squads” and members of the Bush/Cheney administration, I can make an informed statement regarding the apparent KEY ELEMENT of this matter; I can state conclusively that Mr. HENNESSEY aka O’RYAN is not now and never was a US Navy SEAL.

 

Respectfully,

Steve Robinson RM2(SEAL)
USN 1970-1978
SEAL Team ONE
Inshore Undersea Warfare Group ONE
Defense Analyst – Soviet Threat specialization 1981-1993
UDT-SEAL Association - Member
Special Operations Association - Member
POW Network Board of Directors
Naval Special Warfare Archives - SOF Analyst/Contributing Journalist
Disabled American Veterans - Life Member
FORMER Special Investigator - SEAL Authentication Team
CyberSEALs.org - Webmaster
Author - "NO GUTS, NO GLORY - Unmasking Navy SEAL Imposters"

In an AUDIO interview by Wendelle Stevens who was talking about Hennessy,  Mr. Stevens made the following statement:

"...staying in the Marines and kept trading up to a SEAL and then a BLACK SEAL status - which is the highest trained level that A MARINE can reach!"

Since only US Navy SAILORS can be SEALs, and there are no USMC personnel in the SEAL Teams, and there is no such thing as a “BLACK SEAL”, then this is the worst possible sort of BS. If Stevens truly accepts this stuff as “the truth” without verification/proof, then he’s totally worthless as a reporter. If he knows that it’s not true and he still broadcasts it, then he’s intentionally misleading others .....

“Former Marine Becomes Navy SEAL Then Acts as Death Squad Assassin For CIA”. Every SEAL imposter in the country will be trying desperately to find a way to work his own BS story so that it fits this particular scenario.
http://www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1967.shtml

89.
Location. Between Ramstein & Manheim Germany
Date: May 1967
Time: unknown
A UFO was detected by radar in the vicinity of Ramstein UFSAF Air base in Germany. A couple of interceptors were immediately scrambled. The UFO was chased, but it escaped the fighters. Accidentally and quite unexpectedly for the alien crew, the alien craft was shot down by a surface to air missile from Ramstein AFB, somewhere between Manheim and Ramstein. Possibly the attention of the alien crew was distracted by the aircrafts and they did not react in time to the missile launch from the ground or had enough time to disable it. An explosion of an AA-class missile knocked the disk down. An American retrieval team quickly rushed to the scene from Ramstein and found the flat disk-shaped object, about 10 meters in diameter, resembling to flat plates joined together at the rim, the upper plate higher than the lower one. In the lower section the disk had a cylinder shaped central prop or pedestal-like section moving inside and outside the disk, with the encircling band beneath segmented squares. A crew of two aliens was found inside. Both were killed by the explosion and hard impact. They were tall, about 2 meters in height, of the "Nordic" blond type, with long red hair, slanted blue eyes, dressed in tight-fitting silver metallic suits. The disk was moved in top secret by sea to the USA, and then moved to the S4 base in Nevada at the Nellis range in 1970. The first disk of the very same type was recovered in 1958 in Vietnam; so, using pass experience a team of experts was successful in its examination of the engineering section of the disk. The disk from the Vietnam also contained two "Nordic" occupants on board. Both disk were witnessed and drawn by Derek Hennessy (a guard from US Navy Seal Team 6) at the S4 underground base, level 2 in 1987, bays 2 and 3. In February 1993, the disks were moved to a new underground base on the White Sands range, New Mexico, as well as the other disks from S4. These disks belonged to the planet "Troon" civilization, Tialubba star system.

HC addendum
Source: Anton Anfalov, Lenura Azizova, also Leonard H Stringfield And Col. Ret. Philip J Corso
Type: H