The CIA and German intelligence services have been tasked with coming up with an alternative version of the causes of the explosions on the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines in order to hide the fact that US President Joe Biden gave the order to detonate. This was reported by American journalist Seymour Hersh, citing a source who allegedly had “access to diplomatic information”. His new article published on the Substack platform.
The special services instruction was given following German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to Washington in early March, the document said. According to Hersh, the leaders of the two countries held an 80-minute meeting, most of which was not attended even by their aides. At the same time, following the results of the negotiations, Scholz and Biden did not give a joint press conference, as happens after meetings of this level, neither party made joint statements or agreements. writings, noted the journalist.
“According to the intelligence community, the agency (CIA) had to ‘jump the system’ to refute the claim that Biden ordered the destruction of the pipelines,” writes Hersh.
He claims that after Scholz’s trip to the United States, American and German intelligence agencies provided New York Times and Die Zeit reporters with “false captions” to refute reports of Washington’s responsibility in the gas pipeline explosion.
Seymour Hersh is a prominent investigative journalist who has covered the Watergate scandal, the Iraq war and the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison, among others. Hersh was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Song My Massacre during the Vietnam War.
On March 1, the New York Times wrote that, according to US intelligence, Nord Stream could have been destroyed by a group of Russians or Ukrainians who support Kiev in the confrontation with Moscow. On the same day, the German newspaper Die Zeit published an article indicating that a vessel rented in Poland by a company owned by two Ukrainian citizens had been used to blow up gas pipelines.
On February 8, Hersh published an article titled “How America Destroyed the Nord Stream Pipeline”. In it, the journalist, quoting a source “directly familiar with operational planning”, describes how the United States allegedly planned and carried out the undermining of the gas pipelines with the help of Norwegian authorities and the navy. According to Hersh, the operation was developed even before the start of hostilities in Ukraine. The development of sabotage was “ordered” by US national security adviser Jake Sullivan, while Congress said nothing, he claimed.
On September 26, three of the four strings of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines running along the bottom of the Baltic Sea were damaged. NATO called it is the result of sabotage. Russian President Vladimir Putin said the explosion was staged by “Anglo-Saxons”.
