Huck,S. Legal Terrorism. 1989
Huck, Dr. Susan. Legal Terrorism: The Truth About the Christic Institute.
New World Publishing, 1989. 171 pages.
Susan Huck is a conservative ex-Capitol Hill aide who produced this
book with assistance from Theodore Shackley and other fans of U.S. covert
activities. It suffers from red-baiting and too many gratuitous slurs.
Yet Huck has some valid points, and she did some homework. There were
problems with the Christic Institute -- most particularly with Daniel
Sheehan (Harvard Law 1970 and also Harvard Divinity), who frequently seemed
to be long on style and short on substantive research. He founded Christic
with his wife Sara Nelson and Jesuit William J. Davis in 1981. Nelson is
connected to Hollywood entertainers with deep pockets. After working the
Karen Silkwood case, Christic took on plaintiffs Tony Avirgan and Martha
Honey. Avirgan's injuries from a bomb in Nicaragua offered a hook for a
RICO-conspiracy civil suit against an array of ex-CIA types. Ideological
glue was provided by Christic's theory that the same "secret team" had been
running things for forty years. Nelson's advance work for Sheehan's slick
speeches, along with the Jesuit connection to churches, brought in up to
$50,000 per week for the Christic road show. Meanwhile, the ex-spooks were
deposed through discovery proceedings that Sheehan, who was enjoying himself,
tried to drag out. In the end it was thrown out of court, and Christic was
assessed $1 million for the defendants' legal expenses.
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