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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.
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]
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 17:28, 24 June 2015: 1,300 × 1,670, 703 pages (23.68 MB): Airwave2k2 {{Information |Description ={{en|1=partly censored Version of the CIA Report of illegal aktions between 1950s and 1970 also know as the family jewels of the Central Intelligence Agency revealed by Seymour Hersh}} {{de|1=teilgeschwärzter Bericht der...
Davies did not pursue the case, and Maxwell died the following month. In August 1994 the Mirror Group settled Maxwell's suit by paying Hersh and Faber & Faber damages, covering their legal costs, and issuing a formal apology to Hersh. [18] Two British MPs asked for further investigations into the book's revelations.
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh revealed some of the contents of the "Family Jewels" in a front-page New York Times article in December 1974, [7] in which he reported that:
In April 2014, Seymour Hersh wrote an essay published in the London Review of Books which does not mention Timber Sycamore but which describes an anonymous former senior US intelligence official's claims that the U.S. diplomatic post in Libya's Benghazi "had no real political role" and existed solely to provide cover for a secret arms pipeline ...
The formation of the organization was prompted by the disclosure of the My Lai Massacre on November 12, 1969, by Seymour Hersh, writing for the New York Times. [1] The group was the first to bring to public attention the testimony of American Vietnam War veterans who had witnessed or participated in atrocities.