The White House on Wednesday denied a message on the blog of an 85-year-old American journalist Seymour Hersh that the United States stands behind explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipeline, reports Reuters.
“This is absolute lies and complete fiction,” said the press secretary of the National Security Council Edrien Watson.
The same representative of the State Department said.
According to the Hersh, who was referring to the “source directly familiar with operational planning”, in June 2022, the divers of the US Navy, acting under the guise of NATO Baltops 22, laid an explosive mechanism with remote control, which three months later was put into effect and destroyed three of the four branches of pipelines.
According to the journalist, at the beginning of 2022, the CIA working group reported the interdepartmental group of Sullivan that she “has a way to blow up pipelines.” Hersh recalled that Biden met in the White House with Chancellor of Germany Olaf Sholts on February 7, 2022, less than three weeks before the start of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. At the followed press briefing for the press, the American leader said: “If Russia invades …“ Northern Stream-2 ”will no longer. We will put an end to this.”
according to the journalist, the status of the operation in the planning process was changed from the special operation requiring the informing of the US Congress on the “particularly secret reconnaissance with the military support of” the United States, which legally did not imply notification of legislators.
According to Hersh, the American side collaborated with representatives of the Norwegian special services and the Norway Navy. At the same time, representatives of the United States and Norway, in general terms, informed senior officials in Denmark and Sweden about possible underwater activity in the area of Baltops.
A timer connected to devices with an explosive C-4, was installed at the end of the exercises and programmed so that it can be put into effect after 48 hours, the publication of the Hersch is approved. According to his version, later the White House changed this decision, transferring it to a later date.
Investigation of the causes of damage is carried out in Germany, Denmark and Sweden. The post of Foreign Minister of Sweden Ann Linde emphasized that “the gas leak on the” northern stream “and” northern stream-2 “in the exceptional economic zones of Denmark and Sweden was the result of explosions caused by sabotage.” The versions of sabotage adhere to NATO and the EU. Sweden and Denmark, in the waters of which the explosions occurred, came to the conclusion that the pipelines were exploded intentionally, but did not say who could be responsible for what happened. Moscow accused the West in explosions.