Word: hersh
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Spies and Taxes. The quiet approach was most visible in the prize for national reporting. Many veteran Pulitzer watchers had placed their bets on the Times's Seymour Hersh for his series on the CIA's involvement in domestic spying, which led to the establishment of a presidential investigatory commission. But the Pulitzer board dropped Hersh (along with 16 other entries) in the third round of voting; according to one member, the Times had presented Hersh's material in an "overwritten, overplayed and underproven" manner. The winner: a series by the Philadelphia Inquirer's Donald...
...more than a year Colby was able to keep the lid on. Seymour Hersh of the New York Times first heard of the salvage operation's code name, "Project Jennifer," but without details...
...early 1974, Colby knew what Hersh knew and privately cautioned the Times not to pursue the story. In September 1974, Lloyd Shearer of Parade magazine learned from a crewman on the Glomar Explorer, the Howard Hughes ship, about the quest and tried to confirm it through Hughes' Summa Corp., without success. Alerted by Summa, Colby some months later reached Shearer, confirmed the basic facts and persuaded him to keep mum, arguing that recovery of the sub might yield some "ultrasecret" Soviet coding equipment...
A.C.L.U. lawyer was about to break the secret, revealed on his radio broadcast the outlines of the salvage effort. At that point the New York Times ran a ready-to-go story by Hersh, devoting a full page to his reportorial details...
...Hersh didn't want to discuss the question much further. He works for The Times, after all, where people print what they see fit to print and say what they see fit to say, and he didn't want to talk about the controversy with outsiders. He said that as long as he worked for The Times, he should keep it "in the family...