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The America at Night
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Hirschfeld
Goes to Congress, Gives Up Marcos
(Sensi, Chastain, and Leonard Go with Him)
In July 1987, with Jerris Leonard and Robert
Sensi in tow, Richard Hirschfeld and his ill-fated partner
Bob Chastain appeared before the U.S. House of Representatives,
Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, chaired by
Representative Stephen Solarz. Hirschfeld and Chastain
told the story of their recent undercover dealings with
deposed Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos, who had
had the misfortune of hiring Hirschfeld to serve as his
attorney. In his opening statement, Hirschfeld said it
was Sensi who had recommended Hirschfeld contact Solarz
about the Marcos matter (see p. 21 of transcript). During
Hirschfeld's testimony, when he was asked why he had contacted
Vice President Bush about the Marcos matter, Hirschfeld
conferred off the record with Leonard (whose first client
after he left the government and entered private practice
was Bush), then Hirschfeld referred cautiously to Bush's
role in the planning of the trip to Beirut aimed at freeing
American hostages then being held in Lebanon, a trip which
Hirschfeld said was organized by Sensi (see transcript
pp. 55-56). "Plan to Invade the Philippines,"
the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs report on
Hirschfeld and Chastain's testimony, can be downloaded
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