{"id":156749,"date":"2023-02-08T12:36:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T16:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=156749"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:40:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T16:40:17","slug":"nord-stream-whistleblower-us-navy-divers-under-the-guise-of-the-baltops-22-nato-planted-the-explosives-on-the-pipelines-back-in-june-2022-a-source-with-direct-knowledge-of-the-operational-pla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=156749","title":{"rendered":"

NORD STREAM WHISTLEBLOWER!<\/span> ‘US Navy divers under the guise of the BALTOPS 22 NATO planted the explosives on the pipelines back in June 2022’ — A source with direct knowledge of the operational planning.<\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"

US behind Nord Stream sabotage \u2013 legendary NYT journalist<\/h1>\n

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Washington \u201dtook out\u201d the Russian gas pipelines, Seymour Hersh has claimed<\/h3>\n
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FILE PHOTO. The release of gas emanating from a leak on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea
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The Nord Stream pipelines were destroyed last September by the US in a covert operation, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has claimed. The legendary reporter made the bombshell revelation in an article posted to his newly launched blog on Substack on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The explosives were planted at the pipelines back in June 2022 by US Navy divers under the guise of the BALTOPS 22 NATO exercise, Hersh reported, citing a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning.<\/p>\n

The journalist noted that he had reached out to the White House and CIA for comment, with both firmly rejecting the claim that the US\u00a0\u201ctook\u00a0out\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the pipelines\u00a0as\u00a0\u201cutterly false.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The bombs were detonated three months later on September 26 with a remote signal sent by a sonar buoy. The buoy was dropped near the Nord Stream pipelines by a Norwegian Navy P8 surveillance plane, according to the report.
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The operation came to fruition following months of back-and-forth between the White House, CIA, and military, with officials focusing on how to leave no trace of US involvement in the attack. The planning process began back in December 2021, when a special task force was created with the direct participation of US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Navy proposed using a newly commissioned submarine to assault the pipeline directly. The Air Force discussed dropping bombs with delayed fuses that could be set off remotely. The CIA argued that whatever was done, it would have to be covert. Everyone involved understood the stakes,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the report read.<\/p>\n

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No evidence Russia linked to Nord Stream sabotage \u2013 German prosecutor<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The source told Hersh that everybody involved understood the operation was not some\u00a0\u201ckiddie stuff\u201d<\/em>\u00a0but was actually an\u00a0\u201can act of war.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Throughout\u00a0\u201call of this scheming\u201d<\/em>\u00a0certain officials urged the White House to drop the idea entirely.\u00a0\u201cSome working guys in the CIA and the State Department were saying, \u2018Don\u2019t do this. It\u2019s stupid and will be a political nightmare if it comes out,\u2019\u201d<\/em>\u00a0according to the source.<\/p>\n

Originally, the explosives were to have a 48-hour timer and were set to be planted by the end of BALTOPS22, Hersh reported, citing the same source. The two-day window, however, was ultimately deemed to be too close to the end of the exercise by the White House, which ordered the task force to come up with an on-demand method of detonating them. This ultimately turned out to be the sonar buoy.<\/p>\n

The administration of President Joe Biden has been\u00a0\u201cfocused\u201d<\/em>\u00a0on jeopardizing the Nord Stream pipelines \u2013 initially through sanctions, and, ultimately, by\u00a0direct sabotage \u2013 seeing it as key to swaying Europe to its cause amid the then-looming conflict in Ukraine, Hersh noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as Europe remained dependent on the pipelines for cheap natural gas, Washington was afraid that countries like Germany would be reluctant to supply Ukraine with the money and weapons it needed to defeat Russia,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he wrote.<\/p>\n

Moscow provided a similar take on the incident shortly after the blasts, branding them a\u00a0\u201cterrorist attack\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and stating that the US was the nation that benefited most from it, by\u00a0accelerating Europe\u2019s attempts to wean itself off of Russian gas.<\/p>\n

Throughout his career, Hersh has reported on numerous explosive stories, including war crimes by the US military and high-profile political scandals. Exposing the My Lai massacre by US troops in Vietnam scored the journalist the Pulitzer Prize in 1970. Other notable stories Hersh reported on include the Watergate scandal, the CIA illegal domestic spying, as well as the American military’s torture and abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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