The involvement of NATO and the US government in the sabotage of the Nord Stream was emphasized. The picture shows a section of the gas pipeline in the German district of Lubmin. Author: Courier International

WASHINGTON, March 23rd. — Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published an article in Substack in which he said that the CIA was instructed to fabricate a cover story to cover up the reality of the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosion, and that it was published in The New York Times and the German Die Zeit.

The cover-up story was meant to absolve the US of blame after Hersh’s explosive February 8 report that President Joe Biden had ordered the attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines connecting Russia to Germany, antiwar.com reports. about it.

“This was a complete fabrication of American intelligence that was given to the Germans and was intended to discredit their history,” a source in the American intelligence community told Hersh.

Hersh said the CIA was ordered to come up with the cover story after President Biden met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington on March 3. Scholz’s visit was very brief and did not include the routine joint press conference that usually follows a president’s meeting with another world leader. Hersh was told that Biden and Scholtz discussed his report, which detailed how the United States had taken down Nord Stream.

Hersh said the information obtained by The New York Times “comes from a CIA team of deception and propaganda experts whose mission was to feed a cover story to the newspaper and protect a president who made a reckless decision and is now lying about it.” .

The CIA article offered a radically different narrative than the report published by Hersh on February 8, 2023, which reported through anonymous sources that the Nord Stream pipelines were destroyed by explosives planted by US Navy divers in June 2022 under the cover of a NATO exercise. in the Baltic Sea.

Scholz last visited Washington on February 7, 2022, and at a press conference that day, President Biden threatened that if Russia invaded Ukraine, he would “put an end” to the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. the destruction of the pipelines was already in full swing at the time, and the conspirators took Biden’s comment as a blatant threat.

Of Scholz’s possible complicity in the provocative sabotage operation, Hersh stated in his new article: “For now, it should be noted that the question of whether Chancellor Scholz was warned about the destruction of the pipeline in advance or not is still open, since last autumn was clearly involved in supporting the Biden administration’s cover-up of its operation in the Baltic Sea.”

Source: Juventud Rebelde