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Seymour Hersh
Seymour Myron Hersh is an American investigative journalist and political writer. He gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. During the 1970s, Hersh covered the Watergate scandal for The New York Times, also reporting on the secret U.S. bombing of Cambodia and the…
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t know who Hersh is and records the conversation, which he later shares with others. And the audio recording obtained by NPR shows Hersh referring to an insider source who describes an FBI report reflecting that Rich had leaked information to WikiLeaks. The tape shows Butowsky is eager to leverage information to knock down suspicions about ties between the Russians and Trump
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“t know who Hersh is and records the conversation, which he later shares with others. And the audio recording obtained by NPR shows Hersh referring to an insider source who describes an FBI report reflecting that Rich had leaked information to WikiLeaks. The tape shows Butowsky is eager to leverage information to knock down suspicions about ties between the Russians and Trump”
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“s compound was under the control of Pakistani military intelligence In the last three years, for example, he has penned pieces alleging the George W Bush administration trained Iranian militants in Nevada and that Turkey was behind chemical weapons attacks in Syria.”
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“understands the consequences”
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“s death As part of the agreement, according to Hersh, the US would hold off on announcing Bin Laden”
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“s administration was easier to write about.”
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“s summer school on investigative journalism, 76-year-old Hersh is on full throttle, a whirlwind of amazing stories of how journalism used to be; how he exposed the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, how he got the Abu Ghraib pictures of American soldiers brutalising Iraqi prisoners, and what he thinks of Edward Snowden. Hope of redemption Despite his concern about the timidity of journalism he believes the trade still offers hope of redemption.”
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“Editors love documents. Chicken-shit editors who wouldn”
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“so much more time carrying water for Obama than I ever thought they would”
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“t take much to fire up Hersh, the investigative journalist who has been the nemesis of US presidents since the 1960s and who was once described by the Republican party as”
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“...Iraq is a proud country that has been humiliated, and it's madness to think that these people, while hating Saddam, are in love with the United States. Latent nationalism will emerge, and there will be those who want to hold on to whatever weapons they've held back...”
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“They’ve got to have a different mind-set. They’ve got to handle new roles and get into foreign cultures and learn how other people think. If you’re going into a village and shooting people, it doesn’t matter,”
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“We are concentrating on military targets.”
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“I know myself that he killed a whole lot of people.”
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“I only shoot at people who shoot at me,”
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“They didn’t put up a fight or anything. The women huddled against their children and took it. They brought their kids real close to their stomachs and hugged them, and put their bodies over them trying to save them. It didn’t do much good,”
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“s original cover story before one of the Black Hawk helicopters crashed and was demolished, which was impossible to hide. Some details in Hersh”
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Yahoo: Seymour Hersh, a reporter's reporter
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2025· 4 entries
Yahoo: Oscar Contender ‘Cover-Up’, National Board Of Review Winner, Puts Investigative Journalism Legend Seymour Hersh At Center Of Story
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IndieWire: Laura Poitras Chased Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh for 20 Years — and Finally Bagged Him for One of the Year’s Best Docs
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Deadline.com: Watch Trailer For ‘Cover-Up’: Oscar-Contender From Laura Poitras And Mark Obenhaus Documenting Investigative Journalism Powerhouse Seymour Hersh
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The Hollywood Reporter: Seymour Hersh Issues Grave Warning in Venice: “Trump Wants to Be Commander of America — He Wants to Not Have Another Election”
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2023· 1 entry
In a newsletter article titled "How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline", Hersh alleged that the September 26, 2022, sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which had carried natural gas from Russia to Germa
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2021· 1 entry
“I know that he would have us use every persuasive tool that we have to convince our friends and partners, including Germany, not to move forward with it.”
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2017· 2 entries
The German newspaper Die Welt published Hersh's article "Trump's Red Line", which had been rejected by the LRB
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Awarded Sam Adams Award (2017).
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2015· 2 entries
Hersh's article detailing an alternative account of the raid, "The Killing of Osama bin Laden", was published in the London Review of Books
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Stated that the LRB had used a former fact-checker from The New Yorker for his article on the killing of Osama bin Laden
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2013· 3 entries
Hersh's article "Whose sarin
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“s account of the May 2, 2011, raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, which killed Osama bin Laden was”
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Hersh's reporting alleged that Syrian rebel forces, rather than the government, had attacked civilians with sarin gas at Ghouta during the Syrian Civil War, and in 2015, he presented an alternative account of the U
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2011· 2 entries
On which he spent four years before quitting amid a crackdown on leaks, instead writing his 2018 memoir Reporter
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Found it was "very likely" that it was a secret reactor
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2010· 1 entry
That top Pakistani military officials knew about the operation, and that bin Laden had been assassinated
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Awards (2007).
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Awarded Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Award for Cultural and Political Journalism (2007).
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2005· 3 entries
Awarded Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting (2005).
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Awarded Carey McWilliams Award (2005).
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Awarded Preis für die Freiheit und Zukunft der Medien (2005).
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2004· 5 entries
Awarded Orwell Award (2004).
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Awarded LennonOno Grant for Peace (2004).
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Awarded George Polk Award (2004).
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The Washington Post: Seymour Hersh, At the Front Lines On War Scandals
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Hersh published the first of three articles in The New Yorker detailing the U
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2003· 3 entries
Hersh disputed the Bush administration's erroneous claims about Saddam Hussein's alleged stockpile of weapons of mass destruction and ties to terrorism, which had been used to justify the invasion
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To gather intelligence on the growing insurgency, with Rumsfeld and Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone also extending its methods of physical coercion and sexual humiliation, under the name "Copp
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Hersh traveled to Damascus in Syria and interviewed President Bashar al-Assad, whom he interviewed several more times in following years, the latest in 2010; he also interviewed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah
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2001· 1 entry
Which provided blanket approval for killings, kidnappings, and interrogations (at Guantanamo Bay and CIA black sites) of "high-value" targets
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1998· 1 entry
Hersh published Against All Enemies: Gulf War Syndrome: The War Between America's Ailing Veterans and Their Government, about Gulf War syndrome
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1993· 2 entries
Alleged that Pakistan had developed nuclear weapons with the consent of the Reagan and Bush administrations, using restricted, high-tech materials purchased in the U
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Hersh became a regular contributor to The New Yorker, edited by Tina Brown until 1998 and David Remnick thereafter
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1989· 1 entry
Desai, then 93, was too ill to attend, but Kissinger appeared and testified that Desai had not worked in any capacity for the CIA
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1986· 1 entry
An article by Hersh in the Times revealed that U
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism (1984).
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1983· 2 entries
Awarded National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction (1983).
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“s nuclear arms program, and abuses of inmates at Baghdad”
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1981· 2 entries
Awarded George Polk Award (1981).
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A New York Times Magazine article by Hersh described how former CIA agents Edwin Wilson and Frank Terpil had worked with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to illegally export explosives and train his troops for terrorism
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1977· 1 entry
The Times published the first entry in a three-part investigation by Hersh and Gerth into financial impropriety at Gulf and Western Industries, one of the country's largest conglomerates; it was followed by two civil law
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1976· 2 entries
Into the activities of Sidney Korshak, a lawyer and "fixer" for the Chicago Mafia, union leaders, and Hollywood
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Hersh moved with his family to New York, where his wife attended medical school
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1975· 3 entries
Awarded The Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism (1975).
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Hersh revealed that the U
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With an added five-paragraph explanation of the publishing history and one-year delay
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1974· 5 entries
Hersh exposed Operation CHAOS, a massive CIA program of domestic wiretapping and infiltration of antiwar groups during the Nixon administration, which was conducted in direct violation of the agency's charter
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An article by Hersh revealed that the CIA, with Kissinger's approval, had spent $8 million to influence Chilean unions, political parties, and media in order to destabilize the government of socialist Salvador Allende, w
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Awarded George Polk Award (1974).
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Hersh had reported in the Times that Korry had known of the CIA's efforts to foment a coup
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That Pat Nixon, wife of former president Richard Nixon, had been treated in an emergency room in California after her husband had hit her, and that former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman told him of two previous incidents in
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1973· 5 entries
One day before the start of Knight's public testimony
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Awarded George Polk Award (1973).
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In which Nixon and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger had authorized wiretaps of employees of the National Security Council after early bombings of Cambodia were exposed in the Times in May 1969
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Revealed that hush money payments were still being made to the burglars, which shifted the press's focus from the break-in itself to its cover-up
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“s failure to investigate political operative Donald Segretti, despite knowing of his activities, and leaks from the grand jury testimonies of former Attorney General John Mitchell and burglar James McCord, the latter of whom revealed that the Committee to Re-Elect the President had made the payments. John Dean, Nixon”
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1972· 4 entries
An article by Hersh alleged that General John D
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Which alleged that officers had destroyed documents on the massacre, as well as his 1972 book Cover-Up: The Army's Secret Investigation of the Massacre at My Lai 4
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That had encouraged prosecutors, "the most devastating pieces that strike awfully close to home" were Hersh's in 1973 and 1974
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Linking the break-in to the Nixon campaign
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1970· 2 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1970).
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The Peers Commission submitted to the Army its secret report on the massacre, containing more than 20,000 pages of testimony from 400 witnesses
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1969· 5 entries
Hersh received a tip from Geoffrey Cowan, a Village Voice columnist with a military source, about a soldier being held at Fort Benning in Georgia for a court-martial for allegedly killing 75 civilians in South Vietnam
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Awarded George Polk Award (1969).
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Awarded Worth Bingham Prize (1969).
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Hersh reported on the My Lai massacre, the murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians (almost all women, children, and elderly men) by U
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For exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
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1967· 2 entries
(two for The New Republic, two for Ramparts, and two for The New York Times Magazine) in which he detailed the government's growing stockpiles of the weapons and its cooperation with universities and corporations, as wel
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Hersh became part of the AP's first special investigative unit
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1964· 1 entry
In 1964 Seymour Hersh married his college sweetheart, Elizabeth Sarah Klein, a psychoanalyst of Jewish heritage.
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1963· 1 entry
Hersh moved back to Chicago to work for the Associated Press (AP), and in 1965 he was transferred to its Washington, D
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1962· 1 entry
To work as a correspondent for United Press International (UPI), reporting on the state legislature and writing a series of articles on the Oglala Sioux
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1961· 1 entry
Hersh launched the Evergreen Dispatch, a short-lived weekly newspaper for the suburb of Evergreen Park
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1960· 1 entry
Enlisted as an Army reservist, and spent three months in basic training at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas
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1959· 2 entries
But was expelled during his first year due to poor grades
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With a seven-month stint at the City News Bureau of Chicago, first as a copyboy and later as a crime reporter
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1954· 1 entry
Then attended the University of Illinois Chicago and later the University of Chicago, where he graduated with a history degree in 1958
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1937· 2 entries
To Isador and Dorothy Hersh (née Margolis), Yiddish-speaking Jews who had immigrated to the U
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Born 1937-04-08.
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