As I clear out some old material I researched but never got around to posting today, I’d like to share my in-progress bibliography on Seymour Hersh. His background seems to match with Russian and Syrian information warfare narratives over time. Let’s be clear that the Syrian ‘false flag’ chemical weapons material in particular is connected to 9/11 era conspiracy networks which stretch back to the Cold War era. Hersh fits this same MO of ‘antifascist Russian dupe‘ reporter – think of him perhaps like a modern IF Stone.
1.) Wrote for Ramparts(196*-1969)
44. Seymour Hersh, “Germ Warfare: for Alma Mater, God, and Country,” Ramparts 8
(December 1969), pp. 22, 24.
^ Ft. Detrick biological weapons program; just example of multiple stories. Parallels with such later claims about US biological warfare (eg. AIDS).
Also see for comparison: (KGB Infiltrated Ramparts) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/07/kgb-defector-cold-war-vasil-mitrokhin-notes-public
2.) Broke the My Lai Massacre story (1969)
http://pierretristam.com/Bobst/library/wf-200.htm
3.) Broke the story on CIA surveillance of the anti-war movement which led to Pike Committee and intel reform (1974)
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP77-00432R000100340001-9.pdf (original story)
Also see for comparison: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol42no5/html/v42i5a07p.htm
4.) Broke the Project Azorian story (and had to be convinced to be kept quiet about it) (1975)
http://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/19/archives/cia-salvage-ship-brought-up-part-of-soviet-sub-lost-1968-failed-to.html
Also see for comparison: (CIA director tried to stop) https://io9.gizmodo.com/that-time-the-cia-and-howard-hughes-tried-to-steal-a-so-1561583789
5.) Expose on Israel’s nuclear program (1991)
6.) 9/11 intelligence failure narrative (2001)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/10/08/what-went-wrong
7.) Defended Syrian Government intelligence related to post-9/11 cooperation (2003)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/07/28/the-syrian-bet
(downplays known Syrian intelligence connections to the 9/11 hijackers)
Also see for comparison: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:prHpKeCESbgJ:https://www.haaretz.com/news/spiegel-syrian-intelligence-connection-to-9-11-terrorists-1.34215+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/the-forgotten-prisoner-a-tale-of-extraordinary-renditions-and-double-standards-a-386033.html
8.) Abu Ghraib expose (2004)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/05/10/torture-at-abu-ghraib
9.) Hersh claims Fatah al Islam links to Saudi and Lebanese officials (2007)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/03/05/the-redirection
Also see for comparison: (others say it is a front for Syrian intelligence)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-10979788
10.) Dick Cheney kill squad (JSOC) story “an executive assassination ring” (2009) (fed narrative on later Bin Laden raid)
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/jun/07/chain-email/chain-e-mail-accuses-barack-obama-hypocrisy-raid-o/
11.) Accuses JSOC of being ‘Knights of Malta’ (2011)
http://foreignpolicy.com/2011/01/18/seymour-hersh-unleashed/
12.) Sarin in Syria blamed on Obama / (2013)
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin
(First instance?: Syrian rebels aim to use chemical weapons, blame Damascus – report
https://www.rt.com/news/syria-chemical-weapons-plot-532/
Jun 10, 2012 )
13.) Suggested chemical weapons used in Syria was false flag related to Turkey and Saudi Arabia (2014)
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
14.) Bin Laden raid book expose about “lies” told by Obama administration (2015)
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden
15.) Suggested Seth Rich was WikiLeaks source (2016-2017)
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/seymour-hersh-owes-the-world-an-explanation-for-his-seth-rich-comments-f9b2756123d3
https://www.thenation.com/article/seth-rich-conspiracy-theorists-and-russiagate-truthers/
[interview]
16.) Praised Russian involvement in Syria? (2016)
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:y50zghWuuuAJ:syriatimes.sy/index.php/news/world/21695-seymour-hersh-us-military-recognizes-russia-s-success-in-syria+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
17.) Suggested chemical weapons used in Syria was false flag related to Trump (2017)
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article165905578/Trump-s-Red-Line.html
See also known Russian outlets like ZeroHedge, Ron Paul, La Rouche, run with story.
Examples: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-26/seymour-hersh-us-lied-about-syrian-chemical-attack-then-bombed-them-anyway
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/06/27/ron_paul_seymour_hersh_reporting_trump_knew_latest_syria_chemical_attack_was_false_flag_bombed_assad_anyway.html