According to investigative writer Seymour Hersh, the Baltic Sea sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines was orchestrated by the United States.
Based on a single unnamed source, the White House swiftly denied these allegations and called them untrue.
A peculiar incident involving the disruption of the Nord Stream gas pipelines has a new twist.
American investigative writer Seymour Hersh says that US Navy divers put explosives on these pipes linking Russia to Germany across the Baltic Sea in June, and that Norway helped them set off three months later in an essay posted on his own site.
This Wednesday, the White House vehemently denied being responsible for the discovered sabotage. The National Security Council spokesperson for the White House, Adrienne Watson, said that this information is incorrect and pure fabrication.
In response to the allegations against Seymour Hersh, the CIA and Norway both rejected.
The fury directed at Moscow following its invasion of Ukraine increased last autumn when Western nations suspected Russia of being responsible for these stunning gas leaks preceded by undersea explosions.
The Anglo-Saxons, according to Vladimir Putin, were behind this sabotage.
The investigations conducted by the Swedish, Danish, and German authorities have not yet made it feasible to identify those in this occurrence who are accountable.
Seymour Hersh uses only one unnamed source in his essay.
He claims that US Vice President Joe Biden would have personally chosen to detonate these gas pipes in order to deny Moscow the enormous sums of money from its gas sales to Europe.
The writer notes that before the CIA developed the plan, the United States would have proposed this act of sabotage in December 2021.
Seymour Hersh received the Pulitzer Prize in 1970, one of the most prestigious honors for journalists, for his revelation of the Lai massacre in Vietnam in 1970 that implicated the American troops. Major American news outlets including the New York Times and the New Yorker have featured some of his stories.
However, a few of his investigations have already generated significant controversy.
He has received criticism for citing just two key sources in his story of the hunt for and killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011 since it deviates from the official account of American power.
The journalist was also charged of downplaying the violations committed by the Syrian government at the outset of the nation's civil conflict.