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...main outline of the domestic spying was drawn by Times Reporter Seymour M. Hersh (see THE PRESS). He wrote that the agency had conducted in the U.S. clandestine surveillance operations-including wiretaps, break-ins (known as "bag jobs") and surreptitious interception of mail -and eventually amassed intelligence files on some 10,000 Americans. Hersh disclosed no names, though he mentioned that at least one Congressman had been involved...
Then, suddenly, he became a casualty of the constant tension that a covert agency must live with in an open society. As the New York Times was about to blow his cover, Angleton blew his cool. In a telephone conversation with Seymour Hersh, he let slip that the CIA had a "source" in Moscow who was "still active and still productive...
...indiscretion in dealing with Hersh astonished Angleton's friends. Mourned one: "It was wildly out of character. I can only think that Jim cracked under the strain of knowing that the Times story was coming and there was nothing he could do about...
Much of the bloody detail of My Lai had already been revealed either during the courts-martial or by newsmen, notably Seymour M. Hersh, a reporter for the New York Times. But the Peers report, for all its official prose and military circumlocution, holds its own special fascination: the Army, says the report, was guilty of "individual and group acts of murder, rape, sodomy, maiming and assault on noncombatants and the mistreatment and killing of detainees...
...Michael J. Harrington '62 (D-Mass.). The letter was sent to Congressional leaders in an effort to provoke further investigations into the role played by the CIA in destabilizing the government of Salvador Allende. The revelations in the letter, first made public by New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh, prompted the current flurry of protest over U.S. interference in Chilean affairs. The "40 Committee" referred to by Harrington was headed by Kissinger...