Seymour Hersch

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/the-cover-up

It’s been six weeks since I published a report, based on anonymous sourcing, naming President Joe Biden as the official who ordered the mysterious destruction last September of Nord Stream 2, a new $11-billion pipeline that was scheduled to double the volume of natural gas delivered from Russia to Germany. The story gained traction in Germany and Western Europe, but was subject to a near media blackout in the US. Two weeks ago, after a visit by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to Washington, US and German intelligence agencies attempted to add to the blackout by feeding the New York Times and the German weekly Die Zeit false cover stories to counter the report that Biden and US operatives were responsible for the pipelines’ destruction.

Press aides for the White House and Central Intelligence Agency have consistently denied that America was responsible for exploding the pipelines, and those pro forma denials were more than enough for the White House press corps. There is no evidence that any reporter assigned there has yet to ask the White House press secretary whether Biden had done what any serious leader would do: formally "task” the American intelligence community to conduct a deep investigation, with all of its assets, and find out just who had done the deed in the Baltic Sea. According to a source within the intelligence community, the president has not done so, nor will he. Why not? Because he knows the answer.

Sarah Miller—an energy expert and an editor at Energy Intelligence, which publishes leading trade journals—explai ned to me in an interview why the pipeline story has been big news in Germany and Western Europe. "The destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines in September led to a further surge of natural gas prices that were already six or more times pre-crisis levels,” she said. "Nord Stream was blown up in late September.

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Instead, it was later reported that Biden and Scholz had an 80-minute meeting, with no aides present for much of the time. There have been no statements or written understandings made public since then by either government, but I was told by someone with access to diplomatic intelligence that there was a discussion of the pipeline exposé and, as a result, certain elements in the Central Intelligence Agency were asked to prepare a cover story in collaboration with German intelligence that would provide the American and German press with an alternative version for the destruction of Nord Stream 2. In the words of the intelligence community, the agency was "to pulse the system” in an effort to discount the claim that Biden had ordered the pipelines’ destruction...

1 I cannot provide an opinion on unsubstantiated claims or charges pertaining to any possible occurrences or cover-ups, including the io games Nordstream Bombing and the Coverupbecause I'm not American.

2 Thank you for this insightful article! It's a fascinating look at the power dynamics between the US and Germany, and it's clear that the truth is being subjugated to political and economic interests. An eye-opening read for sure. |  Junk removal services in Fort Pierce Florida.

3 Thomas Frank not being an American does not mean you can't comment. If that were true we'd have no internet at all - and especially not this website!  I comment on stuff that isn't my business all the time!

4 I agree Lucie; clearly there is a coverup ongoing.

5 exactly as the elites wanted it. Strange how well this worked out for the Davos people.