This is the mention I remember.
Leonard Bernstein - Young People’s Concerts: What Does Music Mean?
But he doesn’t say anything about its original source. Mussorgsky does show that it goes back at least to Paris (or Russia) in his day.
The first (and only) place I’ve ever seen “neener neener neener” is in Dave Barry’s column, cited upthread.
There was a hot dog place in town that wanted its name to sound like ‘Neener Neener Weener’. Unfortunately, they didn’t use a spell-checker.
