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Legendary Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh Says Nord Stream 2 Was Blown Up by U.S. Navy

by Toby Young
8 February 2023 6:14 PM

The award-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who first gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, published a Substack post earlier today claiming the U.S. Navy was responsible for blowing a hole in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline last year. Here’s how his piece begins:

The U.S. Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center can be found in a location as obscure as its name — down what was once a country lane in rural Panama City, a now-booming resort city in the southwestern panhandle of Florida, 70 miles south of the Alabama border. The centre’s complex is as nondescript as its location — a drab concrete post-World War II structure that has the look of a vocational high school on the west side of Chicago. A coin-operated laundromat and a dance school are across what is now a four-lane road.

The centre has been training highly skilled deep-water divers for decades who, once assigned to American military units worldwide, are capable of technical diving to do the good — using C4 explosives to clear harbours and beaches of debris and unexploded ordinance — as well as the bad, like blowing up foreign oil rigs, fouling intake valves for undersea power plants, destroying locks on crucial shipping canals. The Panama City centre, which boasts the second largest indoor pool in America, was the perfect place to recruit the best, and most taciturn, graduates of the diving school who successfully did last summer what they had been authorised to do 260 feet under the surface of the Baltic Sea.

Last June, the Navy divers, operating under the cover of a widely publicised 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.

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 weaponise natural gas for his political and territorial ambitions.

Asked for comment, Adrienne Watson, a White House spokesperson, said in an email, “This is false and complete fiction.” Tammy Thorp, a spokesperson for the Central Intelligence Agency, similarly wrote: “This claim is completely and utterly false.”

Rather surprisingly, the White House has already issued an emphatic denial. According to a report on Reuters: “The White House on Wednesday dismissed a blog post by a U.S. investigative journalist alleging the United States was behind explosions of the Nord Stream gas pipelines as “utterly false and complete fiction.”

Seymour Hersh’s piece is worth reading in full.

Stop Press: Eugyppius has waded in, noting that “the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist has the story from a single high-level anonymous source, and it’s not without problems” though he finds it “broadly plausible”.

Tags: Nord Stream 2Seymour HershU.S. Navy

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