Nord Stream, Pulitzer Prize winner Hersh accuses Biden of sabotaging the pipeline

WASHINGTON-US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh publishes a long article to reconstruct what he defines as a sabotage operation by the CIA. Long before the attack on Nord Stream, the United States had a reputation for blowing things up, spying, and staging coups in foreign countries, all the while trying to paint itself with the "nice guy" stereotype.

Hersh, Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour, dropped a media "bombshell" this week when he blamed the United States for destroying three of the four Nord Stream pipelines supplying Russian natural gas to Germany. As the United States feigned amazement in the wake of the pipeline's destruction in September last year, Hersh said it was US Navy divers who planted explosive charges on Nord Stream during a NATO exercise in the Baltic Sea last year. summer.

The explosives were triggered weeks after being planted, the reporter wrote, citing a source familiar with the planning of this operation. Although the White House has officially denied involvement, the US government and intelligence services have a long history of furthering Washington's interests through espionage and sabotage.

Hersh himself points out that it would not be the first time that the United States has conducted a covert operation deep under the surface of the sea. In 1970, US specialists managed to install a cable for intercepting underwater communications of the Soviet Navy in the Sea of Okhotsk.

Unlike the attack on Nord Stream, however, this action was aimed at a military infrastructure, not a civilian one: this time the fact helped the United States obtain valuable intelligence and did not deal a blow to the economy of an allied country. while the Nord Stream explosion essentially deprived US ally Germany of its primary source of cheap natural gas.

In addition to wiretapping and blowing things up, the US has conducted many covert actions around the world, trying to keep quiet and denying responsibility unless caught in the act. In 1950, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) orchestrated the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, with false flag terrorist attacks that were blamed on local communists who supported the government.

The US government's efforts to overthrow Cuban communist leader Fidel Castro have involved dozens of assassination attempts and even a full-blown invasion by a group of US-funded and directed Cuban exiles. The US government has even contemplated carrying out acts of terrorism against targets in the US, both civilian and military, in order to blame them on Cuba and thus obtain a pretext to declare war on the island nation. These proposals, known as Operation Northwoods, were never implemented thanks to then US President John F. Kennedy, who torpedoed them.

And in 1980, the United States secretly sold arms to Iran, Washington's hated enemy since the 1979 Iranian revolution, in order to use the money from these sales to covertly finance Contra rebel groups in Nicaragua, who were fighting the government. Sandinista Marxist. The details of such clandestine US-side shenanigans usually became publicly available through secret CIA documents declassified decades after such actions took place, or were discovered through investigations by the US Congress or others. 

The clandestine activities of the US government have not been limited to foreign territories, with US intelligence showing its willingness to commit rather questionable acts against the people of the United States. Under the so-called Project MKUltra, the CIA conducted illegal human experiments aimed at developing new methods of brainwashing and torture for use in interrogation, essentially using US citizens as guinea pigs. The project involved, among other things, studying the effects of psychoactive drugs such as LSD on people.