Seymour Hersh American Investigative Journalist CIA Files

Seymour Hersh American Investigative Journalist CIA Files

1,453  pages of CIA files commenting on the reporting by or making note of the consequence of Seymour Hersh’s reporting to the Central Intelligence Agency, especially concerns about leaked classified information.

Seymour Hersh (April 8, 1937) is an American investigative journalist and political writer. He is a longtime contributor to The New Yorker magazine and the New York Times.

Hersh first gained nation-wide attention for his Pulitzer Prize winning reporting on the 1969 My Lai Massacre in Vietnam and its cover-up. While reporting on the Vietnam War, Hersh exposed the secret bombings in Cambodia. Hersh reported on the Watergate Scandal for the New York Times. In 2004, he reported on the U.S. military's mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison.  Hersh has accused the Obama administration of lying about the death of Osama bin Laden and by disputing that the Assad regime used chemical weapons on Syrian civilians in the Syrian Civil War.

Much of the files document consternation in the CIA about reporting done by Hersh from 1972 to 1986.