Seymour Hersh person
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Seymour Hersh exposed
CIA documented
“The call on December 18th, 1974, was to Colby from journalist Seymour Hirsch, who worked for the New York Times at this time. Hirsch was a noted investigative reporter who had already won a Pulitzer Prize for writing about Vietnam. Now, he …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 3:21
Seymour Hersh covered_up
Robert Kennedy assassination host_asserted
“he becomes like a leading source of disinformation on the jfk stuff and limited hangout yeah and and what i would call a left gatekeeper you know yeah yeah so that the left i mean again you still see this and it's and it's hugely important …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 1:17:57
Seymour Hersh covered_up
Robert Kennedy assassination host_asserted
“The most important liar on one of the most important liars on the JFK stuff, you know, spouting pure CIA propaganda from Sam Halpern, Richard Helms, right hand man. And again, so it's again, it's so accident that right now, you know, the le…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 1:18:52
Seymour Hersh exposed
Watergate scandal host_asserted
“that don't know about seymour hirsch he's also the one not only that reported on watergate but he also reported on the uh pipeline bombing so you might find that interesting but the other thing that was concerning me about usa i think this …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 1:42:16
Seymour Hersh exposed
My Lai Massacre documented
“In 1976, there was a music or excuse me, a movie version of it. And he goes on to say that there became a rift between Bernstein and Woodward because Woodward got portrayed as Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman portrayed Bernstein. And they …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 36:41
Seymour Hersh exposed
Operation Chaos book_quoted
“And I stressed it repeatedly to my editors. New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh's 1974 expose of Operation Chaos, a massive illegal CIA domestic spying operation, had brought on attacks from the Washington Post. They said he had no hard p…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 16:47
Seymour Hersh exposed
Gerald Ford book_quoted
“And then decades later, he comes out with his book called Reporter, which is basically his autobiography and his stories about working on all these different stories. And I have a quote from it that goes to La Mamba here. So he was discussi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 1:23:05
Seymour Hersh exposed
Covert operations in Angola documented
“and abandoning, quote unquote, our responsibility in Angola. Ford's statement laid the groundwork for a counterattack when the bill came before the House. But on December 21st, a provocative article appeared on the front page of the New Yor…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 5:58
Seymour Hersh exposed
Henry Kissinger documented
“On September 16th, the Times front page carried a Hirsch article portraying Kissinger as the chief strategist on Chile and the economic blockade. Four days later, the paper carried a second lead, which was written by Hirsch, linking the CIA…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 17:35
Seymour Hersh exposed
Richard Nixon documented
“Three days later, Hearst reported that Nixon's administration had decided in 1971 to escalate the covert actions against Allende. To say that Hearst's reports raised eyebrows at the Ford White House would be an understatement. They forced P…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 18:26
Seymour Hersh exposed
Frank Church documented
“Both published pieces on September 8th, revealing Harrington's letters. On September 12th, Hirsch wrote that Senator Frank Church intended to press the Chile issue. A week later, when Henry Kissinger sat before the Senate Foreign Relations …”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 17:05
William Colby covered_up
Seymour Hersh documented
“later warning him of Hearst's next article. On September 21st, Hearst's theme would be Kissinger in the present tense, that he had omitted CIA involvement in the Chilean labor and trade unions in briefings to Congress and to colleagues in t…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 18:05
Seymour Hersh exposed
Richard Helms documented
“By then, Director Colby had his hands full. For the matter of the Helms Chile testimony came to a head. One of Hearst's articles on September 17th noted that staff on Fulbright's committee were pressing for Richard Helms, William Breaux, an…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 22:33
Seymour Hersh exposed
William Breaux documented
“By then, Director Colby had his hands full. For the matter of the Helms Chile testimony came to a head. One of Hearst's articles on September 17th noted that staff on Fulbright's committee were pressing for Richard Helms, William Breaux, an…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 22:33
William Colby covered_up
Seymour Hersh documented
“Colby saw Hearst and tried to explain that his data reflected distorted fragments of a different project, all within the agency's charter. Sure. He insisted that such activities had ceased under the 1973 directives that made plain the CIA w…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 31:50
Seymour Hersh exposed
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“about capitalism and about capital. But I guess, number one, it shows you that there's been a Hegelian dialectic going on that's made it harder for us to get all the facts. And then number two, we would have missed the whole foundation that…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 1:14:07
Seymour Hersh exposed
CIA documented
“Called a rogue elephant, the CIA faced the fight of its life. A simple phone call triggered the fire. Seymour Hearst phoned Director Colby on December 18, 1974, to say that he had it from several sources that the CIA had carried out a massi…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 31:21
Seymour Hersh exposed
1970 Cambodian coup d'état book_quoted
“tell us more about the internal reasons for Cambodia's collapse in the 1970s, but both books either discount or ignore external factors to which I refer, above all of the intervention of U.S., Japanese, and Indonesian covert operators. Neit…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 4:58
Seymour Hersh exposed
CIA documented
“acquired the story and the paper printed it on September 11th, including Kissinger's soon notorious comment. No doubt the Secretary of State hit the ceiling. Although Hirsch represented only the leading edge of a drumbeat of press coverage …”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 16:36
Seymour Hersh exposed
CIA documented
“Colby felt Hearst had blown his information out of proportion. Hearst did not see it that way. His article was splashed across three columns on the front page of the Sunday New York Times on December 22nd. The headline read, huge CIA operat…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 32:24
Seymour Hersh exposed
CIA documented
“On September 16th, the Times front page carried a Hirsch article portraying Kissinger as the chief strategist on Chile and the economic blockade. Four days later, the paper carried a second lead, which was written by Hirsch, linking the CIA…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 17:35
Seymour Hersh exposed
Robert Kennedy assassination host_asserted
“This little group or that little group. It was societal access. And there's just no more journalism after like 1982 on CIA. OK, I mean, you could you could compare it. Talk specifically about Seymour Hersh. Yeah. OK, so, yeah, in my opinion…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 1:14:19
Mentions (80)
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To kind of back you up a little bit, you know, I pin some things to the nest. There's a 1972 Senate hearing with Alfred McCoy that Seymour Hersh comes out and the CIA holds the publication of Alfred McCoy's book. And they say, you can't pub…
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For this reason, some people suggest that the Cow Day Eye of God endowed Phoenix, the all-seeing bird of prey, that selectively snatches its prey with its talons. In South Vietnam, the Eye of God trick took on a ghastly twist. CIA officer P…
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who was the Director of Economic Opportunity back in 1970. Cheney would go on to become the Deputy Assistant to the President in 74, 75. That was Ford. Interesting is that Dick Cheney is the one who wrote the memo to use the Justice Departm…
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about capitalism and about capital. But I guess, number one, it shows you that there's been a Hegelian dialectic going on that's made it harder for us to get all the facts. And then number two, we would have missed the whole foundation that…
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Together, and to basically corroborate stuff and basically draw the crimson thread all the way from, you know, you've got Seymour Hersh, Jack Anderson, you know, talking about, you know, Seymour Hersh talking about the drug trafficking in t…
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And the reason for it is, I mean, the really sad truth of this book is Gary Webb is really standing on a very carefully and solidly constructed pyramid of prior reporting, going all the way back to, you know, the Kefauver Committee and, you…
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And I stressed it repeatedly to my editors. New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh's 1974 expose of Operation Chaos, a massive illegal CIA domestic spying operation, had brought on attacks from the Washington Post. They said he had no hard p…
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tell us more about the internal reasons for Cambodia's collapse in the 1970s, but both books either discount or ignore external factors to which I refer, above all of the intervention of U.S., Japanese, and Indonesian covert operators. Neit…
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I started going after the ideas of what I call Guru Gnome or Gnome Chomsky, Alexander Coburn, and Seymour Hersh, who were like the holy trinity of the official, quote, unquote, left views of JFK, RFK. And so much of what was aimed at the, q…
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Basically, this total BS propaganda straight out of CIA's, particularly Richard Helms' right-hand man known as, oh, Jesus. Oh, I can't remember the name, but it's almost uniformly that the catechism is quoting this top aide to Richard Helms…
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You know, Jack Anderson and Seymour Hersh were kind of the exceptions that almost sort of proved the rule. You know, when we got, you know, Pete Bruton, I think, you know, he wasn't, I think the Houston Chronicle was the second biggest pape…
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report real stories because without that people would have caught on a lot sooner that there isn't a left and a right and yeah i i think that's right yeah and it also at the same time you had um like where seymour hirsch is you know printin…
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where the CIA creates a fake left in order to go further right. But I have to qualify that. What I mean, obviously, by further right is for the international corporate cartels. Obviously, I'm not talking about cultural right wing stuff, but…
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Well, you go get the Alfred McCoy book and you find out that he gave a 1972 Senate hearing on this that nobody reported on. And Seymour Hersh ran articles in The New York Times where he basically ran.…
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also served as a source for a respected investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, in his book about the Samson option. Several of these intelligence sources have been criticized by some reporters and others, including George Bush, who have t…
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fake, aka compatible left. Again, the phrase of the CIA is what they call their compatible left. You know, for the 80s and 90s, they got nothing but Noam Chomsky, Seymour Hersh, and Alexander Coburn of the nations. Yeah. Illini, I see you t…
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became startlingly clear when one realizes that they used no less than the CIA, the Justice Department, Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, Richard Allen, the president's national security advisor, and America's premier investigator, Seymour Hersh, al…
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who was an alcoholic, unstable CIA man who had worked for Wilson in Libya. Investigative reporter Seymour Hirsch, who had written about McCauley's exploits, and a mysterious guest they brought in with them by the name of Ernest Kaiser. Gree…
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and a Shackley subordinate who asked not to be identified, Kaiser had been used by Shackley as a contract agent in Europe. The fact that Kaiser had conned the National Security Advisor, Richard Allen, and the Deputy Director of the CIA, Bob…
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What is known is that in the spring of 1981, Kaiser contacted Seymour Hearst and Kevin Mulcahy about bringing Wilson back. This was about the same time that the New York Times Magazine published two major Hearst articles about Wilson. Hears…
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Kaiser had used the Pulitzer-winning Hearst to get him into contact with top-level American power. According to Wilson's lawyers in Hearst, Kaiser said he wanted to know one thing before he agreed to lure Wilson back. He asked if Wilson was…
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probation. At Vahid's sentencing, both the judge and the prosecutor agreed that Vahid was not a foreign agent. Deandra described him as a businessman, trying to expedite what he thought was a business deal. Just three weeks later, Biad was …
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And he was never asked anything about it during his trial about the Libyan nuclear program. On August 17th, 1988, not long after the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Arnold Raphael, R-A-P-H-E-L, revealed the CIA's intervention in the 1985 Vyad …
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Vance may have complained, but no one thought of instituting any legal restrictions on any of this activity. Seymour Hersh, the New York Times reporters, Philip Tobin and Jeff Gerth, Washington Post reporter Patrick Tyler, columnist Jack An…
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The call on December 18th, 1974, was to Colby from journalist Seymour Hirsch, who worked for the New York Times at this time. Hirsch was a noted investigative reporter who had already won a Pulitzer Prize for writing about Vietnam. Now, he …
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of the CIA that included break-ins, mail intercepts, wiretapping, and surveillance. The Director of Central Intelligence met with Hirsch and tried to explain that the information uncovered really reflected distorted elements of several diff…
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Basically, around 1973, there was a set of directives that made it plain that the CIA was supposed to stay within their lane. Colby insisted that Hearst's information had been blown out of proportion and was no longer relevant. Seymour Hear…
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been passed. By 1974, however, there was a lot of bad feelings in Congress on the issue. Some legislation was tentatively considered that year by the Senate Committee on Government Operations. Before anything emerged from the effort, Willia…
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William Colby had to be circumspect with the president, who was aboard Air Force One when Colby called. The two had spoken over an open line in a radio patch to the White House switchboard. William Colby's bad year got off to a rousing star…
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had assembled a memorandum describing how the New York Times had exaggerated. But there were fire behind the smoke, as Colby was obliged to admit. In fact, Hearst had succeeded in uncovering some of the major CIA abuses exposed internally i…
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There was no White House denial and Ford made no statement in support of the CIA. There was also no denials by William Colby or official statements from the CIA. The only denial of the Hearst story came on Christmas Day from Richard Helms, …
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The 14-member panel was to be chaired by Frank Church. The House did a similar version with 10 members, and that was going to be called the Pike Commission after New York Democrat Otis Pike. In his memoirs, A Time to Heal, President Gerald …
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um, multilateral affairs and human rights. Um, and then she was the U S ambassador to the UN. Um, yeah, I don't know. Maybe I'm just missing it, but I don't see it. All right. Who else we got? Anybody else? SR 71. Thank you, Colonel. Just, …
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except for intelligence gathering as well as reprogramming of funds from one government account to another. The amendment also precluded Pentagon funding of Operation Feature, stealing the fate of the program. The Clark Amendment passed the…
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A 32-year-old Oxford scholar and a protege of Nelson Rockefeller's. Prior to his employment, he had been Henry Kissinger, who was Nelson Rockefeller's man, according to Seymour Hersh. Henry Kissinger's employment secretary on the National S…
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To some extent, they just would never reveal how much. In 1974, when journalist Seymour Hersh alleged CIA funding in the New York Times, quoting agency sources among others, his articles triggered a flap in the White House. Until 73, the Ch…
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and abandoning, quote unquote, our responsibility in Angola. Ford's statement laid the groundwork for a counterattack when the bill came before the House. But on December 21st, a provocative article appeared on the front page of the New Yor…
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But they didn't view him as a threat. They didn't do anything like what they've done to Trump. That's just my opinion. I mean, I understand that. I get you where you're coming from. Bush was really clear that the mainstream media supported …
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This little group or that little group. It was societal access. And there's just no more journalism after like 1982 on CIA. OK, I mean, you could you could compare it. Talk specifically about Seymour Hersh. Yeah. OK, so, yeah, in my opinion…
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it's it's so linked to this guy sam halpern of the right-hand man of richard helms he he was so incredibly reliant on this guy and um it's just like it's it's not an accident in my opinion that you know steve roberts comes out with these st…
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that he writes about JFK is like so 1-800-WHAT-THE-FUCK. I mean, the stuff that he was typing about QB, about RFK knowing about Castro hit teams, that has been completely debunked utterly. But the only stuff that people hear about is the Se…
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Just believing Seymour on that. And this is aimed at the left that has been absolutely nothing other than cover up for CIA. So would you agree that he was given more access to information, but more to craft a narrative like controlled oppos…
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that's aimed at the targeted audience that's going to get their guard down. You know, that's how they operate. It's standard operating procedure. Yeah, that's my assessment as well. Do you have any other thing that you want to say back to t…
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I go from liking the guy to hating the guy. So it kind of fits in with what all along just said, because, yes, you know, he writes a story that I know is true and that I'll write one that I know is false. Yes. Yeah. And Colonel, I'm sorry, …
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There you go. You're back. Okay. I love debating people. I'm not going to bait anybody that's going to fact check me on Grok. It just isn't going to happen. I'm willing to do it as long as I can cite my own sources and basically say, hey, t…
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And, you know, CNN was devoting, like, at some point, 70% of their airtime to the Russia collusion hoax. Yeah. That was kind of my first thought on this. The second one was going through Lumumba. You know, there's an interesting corollary f…
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And then decades later, he comes out with his book called Reporter, which is basically his autobiography and his stories about working on all these different stories. And I have a quote from it that goes to La Mamba here. So he was discussi…
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um met with gerald ford on january 16th 1975 about the rockefeller commission and you know rosenthal leaves this memo behind that uh that that hirsch finds years later and when he was asked you know why why the president you know why he had…
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to Hirsch that he found later. And Hirsch, of course, is a New York Times reporter who's exposing all of this. So it's kind of interesting. So it gives you another piece of the puzzle in terms of this relationship between the New York Times…
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to their system just as JFK was. Go ahead, Elanai. So I'm going to give you another quote from Seymour Hersh. First off, there's a reference to, you know, Helms told the House Select Committee on Assassinations, the church committee, that, …
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Asked by Senator Charles McMatthias from Maryland whether an explicit presidential order to assassinate Castro was necessary. Helms was quoted as responding, I think any of us would have found it very difficult to discuss assassinations wit…
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But when it gets down to our shop being the CIA, it means to about six people, don't ever come back and tell what happened. Right. So it's funny how there is this weird game of telephone playing through the system is kind of the most innocu…
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Sir Seymour of Langley, as I call him, we also have to remember that, yes, Seymour was critical in, you know, that whole 1974 to 78 period, which is kind of like the exception to the rule in some ways of congressional oversight of CIA.…
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Creating, you know, this idea of plausible deniability with Richard Helms is also one of the major, the leading, you know, most misleading writers on JFK's foreign policy. And maybe that's not an accident, you know, because he's he is a guy…
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And I might throw Seymour Hersh in that category. I understand the complaints that he's limited hangout. I still haven't made a determination on him. And the truth is, is that there's so much that we don't know about what's going on behind …
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You've got one of the Rockefellers, and you've got Henry Kissinger, who was Rockefeller's man inside the Nixon administration. That's literally Seymour Hersh's quote on it. And David A. Rockefeller is the one who puts him on the board of Ro…
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But does he use it? Does he use the terms? I don't think he uses the term. I put him at least as credible as Seymour Hersh. You know, obviously there's the occasional problem and, you know, people can argue that there's potential compromise…
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for the mainstream media and people demanding that we use credible sources, it gets a lot harder for them to refute that. And obviously, if it's Seymour Hersh or if it's James Risen, they'll probably cover the stuff that they find purely em…
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It's far from a perfect book. In other words, a lot of what he says about the JFK administration, he doesn't really dwell on it, but you can see that he's been subjected to what I would call left gatekeeping propaganda in the mode that was …
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You can basically say, hey, wait a second. This has all happened before. Here's some examples in the past. The media doesn't like to cover it. But we've got Seymour Hersh. We've got, you know, Alfred McCoy. We've got Carl Oglesby. We've got…
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I'll point one thing out here, which is that a lot of this on the one hand is well sourced and it requires a lot of time and energy to understand. On the other hand, it's it's I mean, when you cite Seymour Hersh or when you cite, you know, …
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you know, Shackley's memoirs, and you read it right after you read something by Seymour Hersh or even Jack Anderson, it's disheartening because you'll read through it and they'll just be so level-headed and, you know, talking at the high le…
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As conspiracy theorists, even when people like Seymour Horst or anybody in investigative reporting reports on the actual truth, no kidding truth, it sounds crazy. And they then jump on the person that did the crazy thing, which is the truth…
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I think it's a couple of points here. I think it's important to realize that those comments were mostly made, you know, about 40 years ago. I'm talking about the Jim Hohens of this earth and the Jack Andersons of this earth, etc. And to som…
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was to blame the church committee that they had exposed too much and put the agents in the field in danger. It was a narrative. They needed a dead body. He goes on to quote, In 1973, the Senate Watergate Committee investigation revealed tha…
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In 1976, there was a music or excuse me, a movie version of it. And he goes on to say that there became a rift between Bernstein and Woodward because Woodward got portrayed as Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman portrayed Bernstein. And they …
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Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for reporting on the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, in which 25 U.S. Army officers and enlisted men killed more than 500 unarmed civilians. How is it that Woodward, a junior reporter at the Washington Post, was able to s…
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Koft and the authors went to court to force release the material. Legal discovery, court arguments, and the to-ing and fro-ing surrounded the entire affair furnished many opportunities for more leaks. Seymour Hirsch, investigative journalis…
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acquired the story and the paper printed it on September 11th, including Kissinger's soon notorious comment. No doubt the Secretary of State hit the ceiling. Although Hirsch represented only the leading edge of a drumbeat of press coverage …
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Both published pieces on September 8th, revealing Harrington's letters. On September 12th, Hirsch wrote that Senator Frank Church intended to press the Chile issue. A week later, when Henry Kissinger sat before the Senate Foreign Relations …
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On September 16th, the Times front page carried a Hirsch article portraying Kissinger as the chief strategist on Chile and the economic blockade. Four days later, the paper carried a second lead, which was written by Hirsch, linking the CIA…
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later warning him of Hearst's next article. On September 21st, Hearst's theme would be Kissinger in the present tense, that he had omitted CIA involvement in the Chilean labor and trade unions in briefings to Congress and to colleagues in t…
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Three days later, Hearst reported that Nixon's administration had decided in 1971 to escalate the covert actions against Allende. To say that Hearst's reports raised eyebrows at the Ford White House would be an understatement. They forced P…
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and the White House went into high gear to counter the Chilean revelations. Deputy Secretary Lawrence Eagleburger told Kissinger that Hersh would continue and that Henry himself was the ultimate target. Eagleburger got Nathaniel Davis and f…
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who want a series of hearings on the issue, unquote. Bill Colby volunteered to issue such a denial when talking to the Deputy National Security Advisor, Brent Scolcroft, on September 23rd. Langley ultimately did not issue that denial. Davis…
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By then, Director Colby had his hands full. For the matter of the Helms Chile testimony came to a head. One of Hearst's articles on September 17th noted that staff on Fulbright's committee were pressing for Richard Helms, William Breaux, an…
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Yes, Henry Kissinger leaked information to refute what Ray Klein said. Kissinger himself gave SCORE an interview denying the allegation. Days later, Hearst reported, based on 40 committee documents, that the CIA had been asking for cash for…
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Called a rogue elephant, the CIA faced the fight of its life. A simple phone call triggered the fire. Seymour Hearst phoned Director Colby on December 18, 1974, to say that he had it from several sources that the CIA had carried out a massi…
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Colby saw Hearst and tried to explain that his data reflected distorted fragments of a different project, all within the agency's charter. Sure. He insisted that such activities had ceased under the 1973 directives that made plain the CIA w…
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Colby felt Hearst had blown his information out of proportion. Hearst did not see it that way. His article was splashed across three columns on the front page of the Sunday New York Times on December 22nd. The headline read, huge CIA operat…