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In Questionably-Sourced Article, Author Claims That US Destroyed Nord Stream Pipelines [1]
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Date: 2023-02-08
The source article: How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline, by Seymour Hersh.
This “reporting” seems to rely on a single source. And directly-published to Substack, I don’t think there is even an editor to double-check that single source.
My personal conclusion: “Russian Propaganda Operation”
I’m just going to quote what I think are the most relevant parts (bolding mine).
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.
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What became clear to participants, according to the source with direct knowledge of the process, is that Sullivan intended for the group to come up with a plan for the destruction of the two Nord Stream pipelines—and that he was delivering on the desires of the President.
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“This is not kiddie stuff,” the source said. If the attack were traceable to the United States, “It’s an act of war.”
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Throughout “all of this scheming,” the source said, “some working guys in the CIA and the State Department were saying, ‘Don’t do this. It’s stupid and will be a political nightmare if it comes out.’”
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“It was like putting an atomic bomb on the ground in Tokyo and telling the Japanese that we are going to detonate it,” the source said.
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According to the source, some of the senior officials of the CIA determined that blowing up the pipeline “no longer could be considered a covert option because the President just announced that we knew how to do it.”
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Under the law, the source explained, “There was no longer a legal requirement to report the operation to Congress.
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The source recalled, “Bill Burns comes back and says, ‘Do it.’”
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“He is the glove that fits the American hand,” the source said.
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“They hated the Russians, and the Norwegian navy was full of superb sailors and divers who had generations of experience in highly profitable deep-sea oil and gas exploration,” the source said.
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“The best divers with deep diving qualifications are a tight community, and only the very best are recruited for the operation and told to be prepared to be summoned to the CIA in Washington,” the source said.
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“What they were told and what they knew were purposely different,” the source told me.
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“The clock was ticking, and we were nearing mission accomplished,” the source said.
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