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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 .
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."
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]
Church Committee report (Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence; PDF) Church Committee report (Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans; PDF) The Church Committee (formally the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities) was a US Senate select committee in 1975 that investigated abuses by the Central ...
Ridenhour called Seymour Hersh on 22 October 1969. The freelance investigative journalist conducted an independent inquiry, and published to break the wall of silence that was surrounding the Mỹ Lai massacre. Hersh initially tried to sell the story to Life and Look magazines; both turned it down.
On November 12, 1969, investigative reporters Seymour Hersh [17] and Wayne Greenhaw [18] broke the story and revealed that Calley had been charged with murdering 109 South Vietnamese. [19] Calley's trial started on November 17, 1970.
[9] [24] [25] [35] An article was published by Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker magazine, posted online on April 30 and published days later in the May 10 issue, [23] which also had a widespread impact. [35] The photographs were subsequently reproduced in the press across the world. [25] The details of the Taguba report were made public in May 2004.
Operation Popeye / Sober Popeye (Project Controlled Weather Popeye / Motorpool / Intermediary-Compatriot) was a military cloud-seeding project carried out by the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War in 1967–1972.