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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 .
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.
According to The New York Times, Hersh relied on Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli government employee who says he worked for Israeli intelligence, for much of his information on the state of the Israeli nuclear program. [1] Hersh did not travel to Israel to conduct interviews for the book, believing that he might have been subject to the ...
The article alleged that CIA agents had followed and photographed participants in the antiwar movement, as well as other demonstrations. It also reported that the CIA "set up a network of informants who were ordered to penetrate antiwar groups", and even placed an avowedly anti-war congressperson under surveillance while putting other lawmakers in a dossier on dissident Americans.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. For the 1991 book, see The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Samson Option According to the biblical narrative, Samson died when he grasped two pillars of the Temple of Dagon, and "bowed himself with all his might" (Judges 16:30, KJV). This has been variously ...
The news website AsiaNews quoted Yahia Said, an Iraqi scholar at the London School of Economics, as saying: "The reception [of the news about Abu Ghraib] was surprisingly low-key in Iraq. Part of the reason was that rumors and tall stories, as well as true stories, about abuse, mass rape, and torture in the jails and in coalition custody have ...
The credibility of the CIA was wounded at the Bay of Pigs. [11] In the aftermath Kennedy issued two National Security Action Memoranda (no. 55 and 57) which redefined the CIA role. Memorandum 55 stated that it was the Joint Chiefs of Staff who had the "responsibility for the defense of the nation in the Cold War" and memorandum 57 restricted ...
Robert F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy at the president's early birthday party on May 19, 1962; Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. looks on.. John F. Kennedy was likely romantically involved with actress Marilyn Monroe at some point during his presidency, which lasted from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. [1]