EXCLUSIVE: Legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh can get just about any source to talk. Sometimes they do it willingly, perhaps to advance their own interests; other times, they might need a bit of coaxing with the help of Hersh’s celebrated charm and gift of gab.

But turn the tables a bit and Hersh can prove quite reticent about opening up himself. Oscar-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus discovered that as they put questions to him for their documentary Cover-Up , which just earned a nomination for Best Production from the IDA Documentary Awards.

“We’d love to talk about sources,” Poitras asks Hersh in the just-released trailer for the Netflix film. Hersh replies, “Let’s put it this way. You’d love to talk about sources, and I’d love not to talk

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