Seymour Hersh Quotes
The funny thing is, this is what everyone assumes, that anybody who talks has an axe to grind. I've been around a long time, and yes, there obviously are people who disagree with policy who talk to me, but it's less axes to grind than people who are really motivated. One of the terrible things about this Administration is that nobody wants to hear bad news.
Rothschild, Matthew. "Seymour Hersh." The Progressive, vol. 69, no. 5, May 2005.
Kennedy had compiled all the overt Federal, State and Local laws and ordinances that required or supported discrimination against Blacks. At the time it was published, the Cold War was raging and the Communists were claiming all over Europe that the United States was really not free given the racial discrimination. With Kennedy’s book, they had a field day citing chapter and verse and naming communities and reading the laws all over the United States. The U. S. Information Agency and the CIA were both were having a difficult time coping with the Communists use of Kennedy’s book, and a CIA agent approached Kennedy and offered to make him “financially independent” if he would repudiate the book and stop publication.
Seymour Myron "Sy" Hersh is an American investigative journalist and political writer. He was a longtime contributor to The New Yorker magazine on national security matters and has also written for the London Review of Books since 2013.
