Was the sabotage of Nord Stream a US operation?
According to the (controversial) journalist Seymour Hersh, the explosions at the Nord Stream gas pipelines are the result of a secret American operation. Sebastiano Torrini's article for Energia Oltre
Was it the US that destroyed the Nord Stream?
It is the bombshell dropped by Seymour Hersh, famous but controversial journalist who has worked for the New York Times and the New Yorker , and winner of a Pulitzer prize. In his personal blog, the 85-year-old claims that last June US Navy divers, operating under cover of a widely publicized midsummer NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22, remotely planted the explosives that, three months later, they destroyed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines.
ALL FAKE, THEY SAY FROM WASHINGTON
When asked for comment, Adrienne Watson, a White House spokeswoman, replied in an email: "This is false and completely made up." Tammy Thorp, spokeswoman for the Central Intelligence Agency, responded similarly: "That claim is completely and utterly false."
IS HERSH TRUSTED? PROBABLY NOT
As Domani wrote, Hersh's article “like all of his latest 'scoops' feels shaky. The plot that is being described, and which allegedly involved dozens if not hundreds of people for entire months, is told by a single anonymous source”, moreover unqualified: the journalist, that is, does not specify what his role is or why it should be aware of the details of the alleged covert operation.
Furthermore, Hersh "does not provide other documents or elements to support his thesis. No publication wanted to publish the article, which Hersh posted on the Substack mailing list service.
“It is very unusual,” continues the newspaper, “for such an important story to be supported by only one anonymous source”.
HERSH'S VERSION ON THE NORD STREAM CASE
Biden's decision to sabotage the infrastructure, according to Hersh, would come “after more than nine months of top secret discussions within the Washington national security community on how best to achieve the goal. For much of that time, the question wasn't whether or not to accomplish the mission, but how to accomplish it without any clear clue as to who was responsible."
THE COMMENT OF RUSSIA
Russia's Foreign Ministry, commenting on the report, said the United States now had a number of questions to answer about its role in the Nord Stream undersea gas pipeline explosions last year. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has called on the White House to comment on the "facts" that have been presented, Reuters reported.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/energia/nord-stream-sabotaggio-operazione-stati-uniti/ on Sun, 12 Feb 2023 06:16:39 +0000.