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Seymour Myron Hersh (born April 8, 1937) 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 .
In The Samson Option Hersh cites Ben-Menashe and an anonymous Israeli source in stating that US intelligence information stolen by convicted spy Jonathan Pollard had been "sanitized" and given by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir directly to the Soviet Union. This information was said to include US data and satellite pictures which were ...
The Dark Side of Camelot is a book by Seymour M. Hersh, published by Little, Brown in 1997.. Author Edward Jay Epstein stated that the book argues that John F. Kennedy's image was presented in too pristine a way, and sought to show "a far more sinister vision" of the president.
Further, except for unconsenting human experimentation, each of the main types of activities depicted in the Family Jewels – targeted killings of foreign leaders, electronic surveillance of Americans, examination of U.S. mail, and collecting information on American dissident movements – was legal in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s." [20]
In 1974, a New York Times article was published that accused the CIA of illegal operations committed against US citizens. Authored by Seymour M. Hersh, it documented an intelligence operation against the anti-war movement, as well as "break-ins, wiretapping and the surreptitious inspection of mail" conducted since the 1950s. [1]
Seymour Hersh (born 1937) – American investigative journalist and political writer; Tessy Igomu – Nigerian journalist and head of Investigation at The Punch newspaper; Bob Woodward (born 1943) – American journalist most famous for reporting on the Watergate scandal at the Washington Post, (where he is now associate editor)
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