Hersh, Seymour M. Chemical and Biological Warfare: America's Hidden Arsenal.
Garden City NY: Anchor Books, 1969. 307 pages.
Just as he began a stint as Eugene McCarthy's press secretary, this
ace investigative reporter finished his first book. It remains his most
obscure work, but that's only because Seymour Hersh is by now a household
word in Washington. This is an excellent and thorough treatment of what
was then a $300-million-a-year CBW weapons program. Included are chapters
on chemical agents, biological agents, secret bases, CBW in Vietnam, the
university-corporate research nexus, and policy and disarmament issues.
Hersh has over a dozen journalism prizes and numerous scoops to his
credit: the My Lai massacre (1969), the secret bombing of Cambodia (1973),
CIA domestic spying (1974), Edwin Wilson and Libya (1981), and Manuel
Noriega (1986). In 1972 he began working for the New York Times from
Washington. On rare occasions his byline still appears on their front page
or in their Sunday magazine, but these days he mostly free-lances.
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