Seymour Hersh

2023 - 2 - 9

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Don't be too harsh on Seymour Hersh and his Nord Stream bombing ... (South China Morning Post)

Acclaimed investigative reporter believes the US blew up Baltic gas pipelines, but unlike some of his past revelations there is no smoking gun.

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Veteran journalist claims US bombed Nord Stream gas pipelines ... (The Indian Express)

A Pulitzer Prize-winner journalist, Hersh has reported on the Vietnam War and the treatment of detainees by US military police at Abu Ghraib prison near ...

[Barack Obama](https://indianexpress.com/about/barack-obama/) and the US officials had lied about the details of the 2011 raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in which Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda, was killed. His investigations were later compiled in a book called Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, which was released in 2004. In 1993, Hersh became a regular contributor to New Yorker and wrote a series of articles for the magazine after the US invaded Iraq in 2003. The report was published by 33 newspapers and helped Hersh win the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1970. On November 12, 1969, his investigation on the My Lai Massacre was published, in which he revealed that the US Army had murdered hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians earlier in 1969. Born in 1937, Hersh graduated from the University of Chicago with a history degree.

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Kremlin says those behind Nord Stream blasts must be punished (Reuters)

The Kremlin said on Thursday the world should know the truth about who sabotaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines and that those responsible should be punished ...

"The investigation is being carried out in such a way that... "This is a very dangerous precedent: if someone did it once, they can do it again anywhere in the world." Norway's foreign ministry said the allegations were "nonsense". 26 and seismologists detected explosions, triggering a wave of speculation about sabotage to one of Russia's most important energy corridors. divers blew them up at the behest of the White House. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story

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Russia calls for international probe after Seymour Hersh report on ... (Press TV)

Russia has called for an international investigation after a new report by famous American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh alleged that the United ...

Since then, Moscow has blamed the West for the damage to the infrastructure. Separately on Thursday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also reacted to Hersh's report, warning that there would be "consequences" for the US over the sabotage. Later in the day, the White House rejected the report as "utterly false and complete fiction."

Kremlin Endorses Report on U.S. Involvement in Nord Stream ... (The Moscow Times)

The Kremlin on Thursday endorsed a blog post by the U.S. investigative journalist Seymour Hersh that alleges the United States was behind the sabotage of ...

"Unfortunately, the article was not widely disseminated in the Western media, which cannot but cause our surprise." Navy helped Norway plant explosives on the pipelines running under the Baltic Sea between Russia and Germany. investigative journalist Seymour Hersh that alleges the United States was behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, saying it should be taken seriously.

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Russia Blames US for Nord Stream Blasts, Threatens Consequences (Bloomberg)

Russia blamed the US for explosions that damaged the Nord Stream pipelines and warned of a response from Moscow, after an American investigative journalist ...

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White House Denies Seymour Hersh Report That U.S. Sabotaged ... (Democracy Now!)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has accused the United States of sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines, which were built to ...

In December, The New York Times reported Russia had begun expensive repairs on the pipelines — a move which has raised questions about Western claims that Russia had bombed its own pipelines. In a self-published piece on his new Substack page, Hersh alleges the sabotage was carried out by the U.S. The pipelines were severely damaged last September in a series of underwater explosions in the Baltic Sea.

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Biden ordered destruction of Nord Stream pipelines, claims ... (Peoples Dispatch)

Earlier investigations carried out by Denmark and Sweden had already confirmed sabotage as the reason for the leaks in the Nord Stream gas pipeline.

It had [called the act](https://tass.com/world/1515813) an “unprecedented act of state terrorism,” and had demanded serious international investigations. It was done now with the objective of ending European resistance to supplying money and weapons to Ukraine, and to sway Europe towards taking a more actively anti-Russia stance . Bottom line: when Seymour Hersh reports on security state malfeasance by Republicans, like Nixon or Bush, his sourcing/methods are vigorously defended by respectable mainstream opinion. The first formal meeting, Hersh says, was held in December 2021. Two pipelines of Nord Stream 1 had been operational for over a decade, supplying billions of dollars of gas to Germany and other Western European countries. Of the four Nord Stream pipelines, the blasts destroyed three.

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US dismisses Seymour Hersh's account of it destroying the Nord ... (Morning Star Online)

THE United States has dismissed an account by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh blaming it for blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines as “complete ...

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Russia gleefully endorses Hersh claim that US blew up Nord Stream (Business Insider)

Russian propagandists appear delighted at the much-criticized claim by Seymour Hersh that Biden blew up the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022.

More recently, [German officials agreed](https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/german-top-official-says-no-evidence-of-russian-sabotage-of-nord-stream-pipeline). [to his 1.3 million Telegram followers](https://t.me/SolovievLive/156973). Sweden, which has spent months investigating the pipeline destruction, [last year declared the event a sabotage](https://www.businessinsider.com/nord-stream-pipeline-leaks-were-sabotage-explosives-traces-found-sweden-2022-11) but did not say by whom. Nord Stream 1 kept pumping until the explosion. Hersh declined to comment when contacted by Insider. [damage to the pipelines](https://www.businessinsider.com/video-nord-stream-pipeline-leak-natural-gas-geysers-baltic-sea-2022-9), discovered in September last year, was quickly assessed as [the result of sabotage](https://www.businessinsider.com/nord-stream-pipeline-leaks-were-sabotage-explosives-traces-found-sweden-2022-11) and likely caused by [remotely-triggered explosives](https://www.businessinsider.com/nord-stream-pipelines-attacked-remote-explosives-uk-intelligence-2022-9). [told The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/21/russia-nord-stream-explosions/) that there was no strong evidence that Russia was behind the attack. [wrote on Telegram](https://t.me/Kosachev62/582) that the saying the reporting is "impossible to dismiss." [seized on the article](https://t.me/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/4745), citing the multiple times that Russia suggested the US was behind the attack, also without evidence. [helped expose ](https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/ten-years-of-abu-ghraib) [the US abuses at Abu Ghraib in 2004](https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/ten-years-of-abu-ghraib). [greeted with skepticism by close watchers of the attack](https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1623356378176794625?t=kGIJ4j7zejNTHmgNC2zwnQ&s=19), which many observers [blamed on Russia](https://www.businessinsider.com/sabotage-of-pipelines-were-a-warning-shot-from-putin-experts-2022-10). [a further denial](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-says-blog-post-nord-stream-explosion-is-utterly-false-2023-02-08/) after the article was published.

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Factbox: Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh no stranger to ... (Reuters)

Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. reporter Seymour Hersh said this week that U.S. Navy divers, in a CIA operation ordered by President Joe Biden, ...

and Pakistani governments lied about details of the 2011 U.S. - He ignited a storm of controversy with a 2013 article in the London Review of Books blaming a sarin nerve agent attack that killed hundreds of Syrian civilians in a rebel-held Damascus suburb on rebels acting under Turkey's direction. - Hersh in 1969 exposed the massacre of South Vietnamese villagers by U.S. occupation of Iraq. troops in the hamlet of My Lai. Feb 9 (Reuters) - Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S.

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Seymour Hersh – Sri Lanka Guardian (Sri Lanka Guardian)

Two of the pipelines, which were known collectively as Nord Stream 1, had been providing Germany and much of Western Europe with cheap Russian natural gas for ...

Denmark had also been one of the original NATO signatories and was known in the intelligence community for its special ties to the United Kingdom. Testifying at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in late January she told Senator Ted Cruz, “Like you, I am, and I think the Administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea.” Nord Stream 1 and 2, each with two sets of pipelines, were separated much of the way by little more than a mile as they made their run to the port of Greifswald in the far northeast of Germany. Norway was one of the original signatories of the NATO Treaty in 1949, in the early days of the Cold War. America also has vastly [expanded a Norwegian air base](https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2021/04/us-navy-build-airport-infrastructure-northern-norway-meet-increased-russian) in the north and delivered to the Norwegian air force a fleet of [Boeing-built P8 Poseidon patrol planes](https://www.arctictoday.com/norway-takes-delivery-of-boeing-p-8-submarine-hunter-aircraft/) to bolster its long-range spying on all things Russia. The plan to blow up Nord Stream 1 and 2 was suddenly downgraded from a covert operation requiring that Congress be informed to one that was deemed as a highly classified intelligence operation with U.S. Under the law, the source explained, “There was no longer a legal requirement to report the operation to Congress. 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.” The recording device and its tape had to be replaced monthly and the project rolled on merrily for a decade until it was compromised by a forty-four-year-old civilian NSA technician There was the usual back and forth chatter that eventually led to a crucial preliminary question: Would the recommendation forwarded by the group to the President be reversible—such as another layer of sanctions and currency restrictions—or irreversible—that is, kinetic actions, which could not be undone? [Nord Stream AG](https://www.nord-stream.com/about-us/), was incorporated in Switzerland in 2005 in partnership with Gazprom, a publicly traded Russian company producing enormous profits for shareholders which is dominated by oligarchs known to be in the thrall of Putin. The Biden Administration was doing everything possible to avoid leaks as the planning took place late in 2021 and into the first months of 2022.

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