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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kwon Soo-hyun = An investigative reporter reported that the North Stream gas pipe explosion in the Baltic Sea in September last year was a secret operation of the US government, but the US media are consistent with a response close to ‘silence’.
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Seymour Hirsch (85), an American investigative journalist, published an article on an online publishing site on the 8th (local time) titled, “How the US removed the North Stream gas pipeline.” According to government instructions, a remotely operated explosive was planted in the Nordstream gas pipeline, and the CIA reported that it was detonated in cooperation with Norway three months later.
Citing “a source with direct knowledge of the operation plan,” Hirsch said the operation was in accordance with the instructions of President Joe Biden.
Hirsch claimed that the US government blew up the North Stream gas pipeline in a top-secret operation to reduce Russian influence in Europe.
The North Stream gas pipeline is a major route for direct export of gas from Russia to Germany and other European countries. Nordstream is headquartered in Switzerland, but its largest shareholder is Russian state gas company Gazprom.
At that time, the explosion damaged three of the four Nord Stream-1 and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines installed on the seabed in Denmark and Sweden’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), leaking a huge amount of gas.
Investigators from both countries tentatively concluded that the gas pipe was damaged by a powerful explosion, but did not say who caused the explosion.
Western media such as the New York Times (NYT) also reported that the cause of the explosion remained a ‘mystery’ and reported that Russia was the prime suspect, but Hirsch revealed that the US government was behind it.
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The revelation that the U.S., which claims to be leading the war against terrorism, destroyed foreign facilities through a top-secret operation is not easily convincing, but the reporter who reported this is also a formidable scoop reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize.
Hirsch is an investigative journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for reporting the truth about the My Lai Incident, in which US soldiers massacred more than 500 villagers, including children and women, during the Vietnam War. It is evaluated that this report actually led to the withdrawal of US troops.
In 2004, he received several journalism awards for revealing the systematic brutality of inmates at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, run by the US military.
In that it is a report by a journalist specializing in exploration of the country, which has built a reputation for scooping several times, the report on the North Stream gas pipeline will also attract attention, but famous Western media are ignoring it.
While the White House strongly denied Hershey’s report, saying that it was “totally false and completely fiction,” leading newspapers such as the NYT and the Washington Post (WP) hardly mentioned Hershey’s revelations.
Among the media in Western countries, only The Times of England officially covered Hershey’s North Stream coverage.
Reuters reported briefly the contents of Hershey’s report, but evaluated that the source was only one anonymous reporter and could not confirm the contents.
Reuters also added that Hirsch’s recent investigative reporting on the operation to kill Osama bin Laden and the use of chemical weapons against Syrian civilians has sparked controversy due to its reliance on anonymous sources and lack of clear evidence.
On the other hand, the Russian and Chinese state media are intensively reporting on the content of Hershey’s report and the reaction of the two governments calling for an international investigation on it.
The suspicion that Western countries, including the United States, were behind the North Stream explosion is also something Russia has been insisting on all along.
In this regard, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported on the 11th that as a result of radar data analysis, US and German naval reconnaissance planes circulated at low altitudes over the future explosion site during NATO exercises in June of last year, three months before the Nordstream gas pipe exploded.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Young-eun = Reuters reported on the 29th (local time) that an additional gas leak was found in an undersea natural gas pipeline connecting Russia and Germany. [email protected] Twitter @yonhap_graphics Facebook tuney.kr/LeYN1
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