The White House on Wednesday denied a new report from noted investigative reporter Seymour Hersh that the United States was behind the attacks on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines linking Russia to Germany.
Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and a former staff writer for the New Yorker and the New York Times whose reporting in recent years has been controversial, wrote in a Substack post that the Nord Stream blasts were a long-planned, covert operation carried out by Navy divers operating under the cover of NATO military exercises.
White House National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson told the Washington Examiner the report was"false and complete fiction.”CIA spokeswoman Tammy Thorp told Hersch that “this claim is completely and utterly false.” The article prompted Russia's foreign ministry to weigh in on Wednesday, demanding that the U.S. respond to the report.
Swedish and Danish security authorities immediately launched separate investigations into the blasts, which occurred in their respective economic zones. Germany is also conducting its own investigation.
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