American journalist, former US police officer, John Dugan, who received political asylum in Russia in 2016, told the Russian media about receiving an anonymous letter, which spoke about the participation of American divers in NATO Baltops-2022 in June last year. According to its source, during these teachings, explosives at the Northern Stream-1 and Northern Stream-2 could be laid.
The author of an anonymous letter sent to Dugan, said that on June 15, a helicopter delivered a group of American divers in civilian clothes to the Danish island of Bornholm. An anonymous source claims that he himself participated in these exercises. John Dugan said that he trusts this information, because photographs from the exercises and documents were attached to the letter. At the same time, he promised not to disclose them in order to avoid revealing the personality of the informant.
The letter reports that the divers had MK-29 ribs (respiratory devices) and other highly professional equipment, which, according to the source, is not used by naval units. Divers supposedly also had small boxes. Divers, the source reports, explained that they are doing work on cleansing. However, the letter claims that they did not have the necessary equipment for this.
Dugan reports that after a conversation with Vice Admiral, the divers did not go to the area of exercises. Under water, they allegedly were more than six hours. “There is no such autonomous equipment that will allow the diver to hold out under water for six hours. With the latest military systems – three or four hours maximum,” John Dugan quotes the source.
according to his information, divers came out of the water without boxes, then the military took the helicopter.
Explosions on the Nord Stream-1 and not commissioned by Northern Stream-2 occurred in September 2022. On February 8, 2023, American journalist Seymour Hersh published material under the heading “How America destroyed the Nord Stream gas pipeline. Publication with reference to one source” with direct knowledge of operational planning “reported that the explosions on gas pipelines were a secret operation of the United States. This information was called the White House with a lie and a complete fiction. Russia urged the United States to prove non -involvement in the incident.
John Dugan is known for the fact that in 2009 he founded the Pbsotalk.org website in which it was possible to post information about corruption and exceeding the powers of the police. In 2015, he posted on his website an audio recording of the conversation of the Palm Beach District Detective, which, allegedly, proved the persecution of the political opponents of the sheriff of the district. The FBI suspected John Dugan of illegal interception of the audio recording of the conversation, as well as in the publication of 12 thousand names of the department’s employees. In 2016, he arrived in Russia and became the fourth American who received political asylum in Russia. After moving, he repeatedly traveled to Donbass, where he covered the course of hostilities.