Seymour Hersh

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Seymour Myron "Sy" Hersh (born April 8, 1937) is an American investigative journalist and political writer.

He has long been a contributor to The New Yorker magazine on national security issues, and has also written for the London Review of Books since 2013.Hersh first received acclaim 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.

Hersh covered the Watergate affair for The New York Times in the 1970s and revealed the clandestine bombing of Cambodia.

He wrote about the mistreatment of prisoners in Abu Ghraib jail in 2004.

He has also received two National Magazine Awards and five George Polk Awards.

Hersh has sparked controversy in recent years by accusing the Obama administration of fabricating the death of Osama bin Laden and denying that the Syrian civil war used chemical weapons on Syrian civilians.

Early years

Hersh was born in Chicago on April 8, 1937, to Yiddish-speaking Lithuanian Jewish parents who immigrated to the United States from Lithuania and Poland and owned a dry-cleaning shop in Chicago's Austin neighborhood. Hersh found himself in search of a career after graduating from the University of Chicago with a history degree. He began working at Waldorf before being accepted into University of Chicago Law School, but was suspended for poor grades straight away.

Hersh began his career in journalism as a copyboy and then as a police reporter for Chicago's City News Bureau in 1959. He was editor-in-chief of The Southwest Suburbanite in Oak Lawn, Illinois. He began The Everest Reporter, a short-lived suburban newspaper. He then migrated to Washington, D.C., and D.C. He became a South Dakota reporter for United Press International.

He began in 1963 as a Chicago and Washington reporter for the Associated Press. Hersh's early experiences in Washington first met and befriended I. F. Stone, whose I. F. Stone's Weekly would be a first inspiration for Hersh's later work. Hersh began to form his investigative style during this period, often walking out of pre-scheduled press briefings at the Pentagon and seeking out one-on-one interviews with high-ranking officers. Hersh left the AP and sold his story to The New Republic after falling out with the editors at the AP when they refused to drop a story about the US government's work on biological and chemical weapons. He served as press secretary for Senator Eugene McCarthy's campaign during the 1968 presidential race.

Hersh returned to journalism as a freelancer covering the Vietnam War after leaving McCarthy's campaign. Hersh was first warned by Geoffrey Cowan of The Village Voice in 1969 that an Army lieutenant had been jailed for killing civilians in Vietnam. His subsequent probe, which was sold to the Dispatch News Service, led to the My Lai massacre, revealing the murder of My Lai, which claimed the Pulitzer Prize in 1970.

Hersh was recruited as a reporter for The Washington bureau of The New York Times in 1972, where he served from 1972 to 1977 and then in 1979. Hersh wrote about the Watergate affair, but the bulk of the blame for the tale went to Carl Bernstein and Hersh's longtime rival Bob Woodward. Nonetheless, Hersh's Watergate investigations led him to the publication of The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House in 1983, a portrait of Henry Kissinger that received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1983.

Hersh's 1974 essay argued that the CIA had broken its charter by spying on anti-war activists is credited as a contributing factor in the Church Committee's establishment.

Hersh was instrumental in the investigation and reporting of Project Azorian (which he described as "Project Jennifer"), the CIA's clandestine attempt to build a Soviet submarine using Howard Hughes' Glomar Explorer in 1975.

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