The Covert Operation That Took Down The Nord Stream Pipeline
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hirsch, relying on unnamed national security sources, recently published an article on his substack about the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines.
Two pipelines, known as Nord Stream 1, provided Western Europe with cheap Russian gas for more than a decade.
These pipelines were seen by NATO as a threat to Western dominance.
Profits were shared with the Russian government and provided up to 45% of their annual budget.
A second pair, called Nord Stream 2, had been built but were not yet operational.
NATO was concerned that as long as Europe remained dependent upon these pipelines, Germany would be reluctant to supply Ukraine with money and weapons to fight Russia.
And so the Biden administration authorized Jake Sullivan to assemble a task force with members of the Biden White House, the CIA, and the Pentagon to come up with a plan for the destruction of the pipelines.
The operation was run by Victoria Newland, Anthony Blinken, and Jake Sullivan.
The Navy proposed using a submarine to assault the pipeline directly.
The Air Force proposed dropping bombs with delayed fuses.
And the CIA argued that whatever was done, it would have to be covert, because if the attack was traced to the U.S., then it would be an act of war.
In early 2022, right after the CIA reported to Sullivan that they had a plan, both Victoria Newland and President Biden publicly threatened to bring an end to Nord Stream 2.
If Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward.
If Russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine again, then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2.
According to the source, this public announcement meant that blowing up the pipeline no longer could be considered a covert option and that there was no longer a legal requirement to report their plans to Congress.
The Americans partnered with Norway, who had their own motivations for the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, which would allow them to sell more of their own natural gas to Europe.
In March of 2022, members of the team flew to Norway to meet with the Norwegian Secret Service.
The Norwegian Navy decided on a spot in the shallow waters of the Baltic Sea, a few miles off Denmark's Bornholm Island, where the divers, operating from a Norwegian Alta-class mine hunter, would plant C-4 charges with concrete protective covers on the four pipelines.
Divers were chosen from the U.S. Navy's Diving and Salvage Center in Panama City, which specializes in training deepwater divers to use C4 explosives because they were Navy only and not members of America's Special Operations Command, whose covert operations would need to be reported to Congress.
The mission was secretly embedded into an annual training exercise already scheduled for June of 2022, known as Baltic Operations 22, or Baltops 22, wherein the Panama City divers would place C4 explosives with a 48-hour timer attached.
But the White House then worried that triggering the explosion within two days of the well-publicized training exercise would make it obvious that America was responsible.
And so it was decided that the C-4 would be triggered by a sonar buoy, later dropped by plane.
The buoy would emit a sequence of unique low-frequency tonal sounds to trigger the explosives.
On September 26, 2022, A Norwegian Navy P-8 surveillance plane dropped the sonar buoy.
The signal spread underwater, and a few hours later, the high-powered explosives were triggered and three of the four pipelines were put out of commission.
According to Hirsch's national security sources, it was a beautiful cover story.
It was a covert operation that placed experts in the field and equipment that operated on a covert signal.
The only flaw was the decision to do it.
Reporting for InfoWars, this is Greg Reese.
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