Seymour Hersh: How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline
The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now The U.S. Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center can be found in a location as obscure as its name—down what was once a country lane in rural Panama City, a now-booming resort city in the southwestern panhandle of Florida, 70 miles south of the Alabama border. The center’s complex is as nondescript as its location—a drab concrete post-World War II structure that has the look of a vocational high school on the west side of Chicago. A coin-operated laundromat and a dance school are across what is now a four-lane road.
The center has been training highly skilled deep-water divers for decades who, once assigned to American military units worldwide, are capable of technical diving to do the good—using C4 explosives to clear harbors and beaches of debris and unexploded ordinance—as well as the bad, like blowing up foreign oil rigs, fouling intake valves for undersea power plants, destroying locks on crucial shipping canals. The Panama City center, which boasts the second largest indoor pool in America, was the perfect place to recruit the best, and most taciturn, graduates of the diving school who successfully did last summer what they had been authorized to do 260 feet under the surface of the Baltic Sea.
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Update #1: US Bombed Russia's Nord Stream Gas Pipeline After Months-Long Planning by White House - Seymour Hersh -- IBTimes
Update #2: Nord Stream Sabotage Was CIA, US Navy Covert Op: Seymour Hersh Bombshell Prompts White House Response -- Zero Hedge
WNU Editor: The White House is denying these reports .... White House says blog post on Nord Stream explosion 'utterly false' (Reuters).
Russia is demanding answers .... Russia: U.S. has questions to answer over Nord Stream explosions (Reuters).
As to what is my take.
When Undersecretary of State Nuland was giving testimony to the US Senate two weeks ago, you can tell that she wanted to take credit for Nord Stream's destruction .... US Under-Secretary Of State Victoria Nuland: We Are Gratified That Nord Stream 2 Is A Hunk Of Metal At The Bottom Of The Sea (January 27, 2023).
Needless to say. If the US admits that this attack was done because US President Biden ordered it, this act will be seen by Russia as a declaration of war.