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"Cover-Up": An Engaging Documentary on What it Takes to Expose CIA Misdeeds

The legendary Seymour Hersh is the subject of a new film from award-winning Snowden chronicler Laura Poitras and former ABC documentarian Mark Obenhaus.

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Mark S. Zaid, P.C.
Jan 22, 2026
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Hersh in The New York Times Washington bureau in 1975. (NYT via Netflix)

TO THOSE OF A CERTAIN AGE, the legendary investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh needs no introduction, but there may be many young journalists, not to mention casual news readers, who have never heard of him.

Hersh is back in the news recently, but not because of any new blockbuster story.. Instead, he is the subject—at times reluctantly—of a new feature length documentary film, Cover-Up, now available on Netflix. At almost 90, Hersh does not appear to have yet slowed down and the new film offers viewers a truly educational and even entertaining overview of his career.

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