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How the U.S. Navy blew up the Nord Stream pipeline

Screenshot from the Danish Defense shows that a gas leak, caused by explosions at the Nord Stream pipelines, has reached the water surface at sea Sept. 20, 2022. Photo: Swedish Coast Guard Handout

Screenshot from the Danish Defense shows that a gas leak, caused by explosions at the Nord Stream pipelines, has reached the water surface at sea on Sept. 20, 2022. Photo: Swedish Coast Guard Handout

Seymour Hersch, the investigative journalist, has published a powerful exposé titled “How America took out the Nord Stream Pipeline.” The subtitle says: “The New York Times called it a ‘mystery,’ but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now.”

Hersch reports: “Last June, the Navy divers, operating under the cover of a widely publicized 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.”

Hersch’s full report can be read at SeymourHersch.substack.com.

Gary Wilson