Major media are coming out with new details and twists of the cover story that a bunch of well-trained guys rented a boat, dived into the deep, and put the explosives on the Nord Stream pipelines. Two of the latest such reports:
The Wall Street Journal. On March 8, the WSJ posted, “U.S. Probes Whether Pro-Ukraine Group Had Role in Nord Stream Explosions.” Citing anonymous intelligence officials, the article claims that the CIA warned its German counterpart, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), about a potential attack on the Nord Stream pipelines months before an attack was carried out. They even claimed that three Ukrainian nationals were attempting to rent ships in countries that border the Baltic Sea. They also claim that CIA Chief William Burns and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan were considering the possibility that Ukraine was behind the attack as early as October, but did not say what that assessment was based on, or if it was related to the pro-Ukrainian group that allegedly attacked the pipelines. One the themes of the story is that, “Western officials no longer suspect Russia of ordering the alleged attack against undersea gas pipelines,” as stated in its secondary headline.
