The renowned journalist Seymour Hersh revealed that the United States, in cooperation with Norway, carried out the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines last September 2022, with which Russia supplied Germany and Western Europe with cheap fuel.
According to its journalistic investigation, the Joe Biden government turned to a task force made up of senior officials from the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the State and Treasury Departments.
This since December 2021, two months before the invasion of Ukraine occurred.
The group agreed to use Florida-trained Navy divers to not report their activities to the US Congress to ensure the secrecy of the operation.
The Gazprom company that operated the gas pipelines has a 51 percent Russian stake and the remaining 49 percent is divided between a French firm, a Dutch firm, and two German firms.
Hersh details that to place the explosives, the Biden government took advantage of the fact that every June a military exercise is carried out in the Baltic Sea, where NATO forces participate. on this occasion a competition was proposed to place mines and the different teams had to destroy them using the most advanced technology.
During the planning it was agreed that the bombs would go from being activated on a specific day to when determined by President Biden, requiring further preparation.
Who is Seymour Hersh?
Seymour Hersh (1937-) is a veteran American journalist who, throughout his career, reported on the My Lai massacre, when the US military attacked a village during the Vietnam War. And the torture of Iraqi prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison after the invasion of Iraq.
For his reporting he has won a Pulitzer Prize, five George Polk Prizes and a George Orwell Prize.