'DON'T COUNT ON' SEYMOUR HERSH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000201560004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 19, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPEARED
ON PAGE WASHINGTON TIMES
19 October 1984
The last time I saw former New York Tines
reporter Seymour.:Hersh in the, ews was a Iit- '?
him for this paper. At that time he told me such=
or if the North Vietnamese tyrant Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamese President Thieu or Richard Nixon.
communist doesn't mean he doesn't have some,
personal integrity."
he appears to be asstupid .as ever. According to
an article in the American University paper,,-i'_
U.S.," Mr. H has urged our country to stop
"fighting immorality with,
our own immorality"..
In his recent talk, sponsored by the Kennedy:;
Political Union and the Society of Professional
States "went bananas" when the Soviets shot
down Korean Air. Lines Flight 007, murdering'
Mr. H said the United States "went bananas"
even though "the evidence is now clear that the
"instinctive action" to this atrocity,he said,
about? There is no evidence at all that the".
, shooting down of Flight 007 was anything other
"bananas" in reaction to this brutal act of mass,
mid-air murder, the assertion isludricous. The
carnage, nothing of any 'real substance at least.