Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh is reporting today that the United States was responsible for blowing up a major gasline that supplies Europe with energy from Russia.
Hersh was an investigative reporter for decades for The New York Times and The New Yorker. On Wednesday, he published a damning report on Substack about how President Joe Biden ordered the blowing up of the Nor Stream undersea gasline last summer. The White House responded quickly, calling it ‘complete fiction.'”
Hersh’s story tells many details that could only have come from Deep State sources. His timing, publishing the day after the State of the Union address by Biden, is a curious touch. Hersh, now 85, has never before published on Substack, a home for independent writers and the new location for the Must Read Alaska newsletter.
“Last June, the Navy divers, operating under the cover of a widely publicized mid-summer NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22, planted the remotely triggered explosives that, three months later, destroyed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines, according to a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning,” Hersh writes.
“Two of the pipelines, which were known collectively as Nord Stream 1, had been providing Germany and much of Western Europe with cheap Russian natural gas for more than a decade. A second pair of pipelines, called Nord Stream 2, had been built but were not yet operational. Now, with Russian troops massing on the Ukrainian border and the bloodiest war in Europe since 1945 looming, President Joseph Biden saw the pipelines as a vehicle for Vladimir Putin to weaponize natural gas for his political and territorial ambitions,” Hersh says.
Adrienne Watson, a White House spokeswoman, told a reporter, “This is false and complete fiction.” But the story is now being carried by international newspapers in Europe and could have long-term consequences for international relations.
“Biden’s decision to sabotage the pipelines came after more than nine months of highly secret back and forth debate inside Washington’s national security community about how to best achieve that goal. For much of that time, the issue was not whether to do the mission, but how to get it done with no overt clue as to who was responsible,” Hersh reports.
“President Biden and his foreign policy team—National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Secretary of State Tony Blinken, and Victoria Nuland, the Undersecretary of State for Policy—had been vocal and consistent in their hostility to the two pipelines, which ran side by side for 750 miles under the Baltic Sea from two different ports in northeastern Russia near the Estonian border, passing close to the Danish island of Bornholm before ending in northern Germany,” Hersh writes.
Hersh has broken numerous investigative stories in his career, including the cover up of the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal during the Nixon presidential campaign, the secret bombing of Cambodia, and the circumstances surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden during the Obama administration. His sources are deep and the trust he has built with them goes back 50 years.
Read the entire Hersh report, How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline, at Substack, where Hersh launched his bombshell as his first Substack post just a few hours ago.
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream
