Feb. 8, 2023(EIRNS)—Seymour Hersh, the ostracized but most senior American investigative journalist since the Vietnam War, has issued a shock exposé, depicting with precision who and how the U.S. Establishment and military rallied to plan and carry out the blowing up of the Russian-German Nord Stream pipelines. The sabotage project, according to Hersh, traces back to early 2021.
Titled “How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline,” Hersh begins by saying outright that the command headquarters selected to run the physical assault on the pipelines was the highly secretive “U.S. Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center ‘’ in Panama City, Florida. He writes: “Last June the Navy divers, operating under the cover of a … midsummer 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.” (https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream )
White House spokesperson Adrienne Watson has already been deployed to answer an email stating about this charge: “This is false and complete fiction.”
Per Hersh’s account: The choice of the Panama City facility was based on its covert status. As Navy personnel, its actions are not subject to those covert operations that must be reported to and briefed in advance to the leadership of the Senate and House. Navy divers are also famed for their “successful” espionage infiltration into a high-level Soviet-era communications system used by the submarine division of the Soviet Navy.
Whatever the covert operation formalities, however, Hersh makes clear that leading Republicans, most notably Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), was involved as soon as Biden was to be inaugurated, to demand that aggressive action be taken against the pipelines. Hersh provides a detailed description of how the pipelines were a pivotal benefit for the German economy, and an exemplification of the Willy Brandt-era, “realist” “Ostpolitik” policy, which, though Hersh doesn’t say so, gave Germany a margin of sovereignty, which now the Anglo-Americans are demanding be erased.