Seymour Hersh

2023 - 2 - 9

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Don't be too harsh on Seymour Hersh and his Nord Stream bombing ... (South China Morning Post)

Acclaimed investigative reporter believes the US blew up Baltic gas pipelines, but unlike some of his past revelations there is no smoking gun.

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Veteran journalist claims US bombed Nord Stream gas pipelines ... (The Indian Express)

A Pulitzer Prize-winner journalist, Hersh has reported on the Vietnam War and the treatment of detainees by US military police at Abu Ghraib prison near ...

[Barack Obama](https://indianexpress.com/about/barack-obama/) and the US officials had lied about the details of the 2011 raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in which Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda, was killed. His investigations were later compiled in a book called Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, which was released in 2004. In 1993, Hersh became a regular contributor to New Yorker and wrote a series of articles for the magazine after the US invaded Iraq in 2003. The report was published by 33 newspapers and helped Hersh win the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1970. On November 12, 1969, his investigation on the My Lai Massacre was published, in which he revealed that the US Army had murdered hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians earlier in 1969. Born in 1937, Hersh graduated from the University of Chicago with a history degree.

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Kremlin says those behind Nord Stream blasts must be punished (Reuters)

The Kremlin said on Thursday the world should know the truth about who sabotaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines and that those responsible should be punished ...

"The investigation is being carried out in such a way that... "This is a very dangerous precedent: if someone did it once, they can do it again anywhere in the world." Norway's foreign ministry said the allegations were "nonsense". 26 and seismologists detected explosions, triggering a wave of speculation about sabotage to one of Russia's most important energy corridors. divers blew them up at the behest of the White House. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story

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White House Denies Seymour Hersh Report That U.S. Sabotaged ... (Democracy Now!)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has accused the United States of sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines, which were built to ...

In December, The New York Times reported Russia had begun expensive repairs on the pipelines — a move which has raised questions about Western claims that Russia had bombed its own pipelines. In a self-published piece on his new Substack page, Hersh alleges the sabotage was carried out by the U.S. The pipelines were severely damaged last September in a series of underwater explosions in the Baltic Sea.

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Biden ordered destruction of Nord Stream pipelines, claims ... (Peoples Dispatch)

Earlier investigations carried out by Denmark and Sweden had already confirmed sabotage as the reason for the leaks in the Nord Stream gas pipeline.

It had [called the act](https://tass.com/world/1515813) an “unprecedented act of state terrorism,” and had demanded serious international investigations. It was done now with the objective of ending European resistance to supplying money and weapons to Ukraine, and to sway Europe towards taking a more actively anti-Russia stance . Bottom line: when Seymour Hersh reports on security state malfeasance by Republicans, like Nixon or Bush, his sourcing/methods are vigorously defended by respectable mainstream opinion. The first formal meeting, Hersh says, was held in December 2021. Two pipelines of Nord Stream 1 had been operational for over a decade, supplying billions of dollars of gas to Germany and other Western European countries. Of the four Nord Stream pipelines, the blasts destroyed three.

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US dismisses Seymour Hersh's account of it destroying the Nord ... (Morning Star Online)

THE United States has dismissed an account by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh blaming it for blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines as “complete ...

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Factbox: Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh no stranger to ... (Reuters)

Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. reporter Seymour Hersh said this week that U.S. Navy divers, in a CIA operation ordered by President Joe Biden, ...

and Pakistani governments lied about details of the 2011 U.S. - He ignited a storm of controversy with a 2013 article in the London Review of Books blaming a sarin nerve agent attack that killed hundreds of Syrian civilians in a rebel-held Damascus suburb on rebels acting under Turkey's direction. - Hersh in 1969 exposed the massacre of South Vietnamese villagers by U.S. occupation of Iraq. troops in the hamlet of My Lai. Feb 9 (Reuters) - Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S.

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Seymour Hersh – Sri Lanka Guardian (Sri Lanka Guardian)

Two of the pipelines, which were known collectively as Nord Stream 1, had been providing Germany and much of Western Europe with cheap Russian natural gas for ...

Denmark had also been one of the original NATO signatories and was known in the intelligence community for its special ties to the United Kingdom. Testifying at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in late January she told Senator Ted Cruz, “Like you, I am, and I think the Administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea.” Nord Stream 1 and 2, each with two sets of pipelines, were separated much of the way by little more than a mile as they made their run to the port of Greifswald in the far northeast of Germany. Norway was one of the original signatories of the NATO Treaty in 1949, in the early days of the Cold War. America also has vastly [expanded a Norwegian air base](https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2021/04/us-navy-build-airport-infrastructure-northern-norway-meet-increased-russian) in the north and delivered to the Norwegian air force a fleet of [Boeing-built P8 Poseidon patrol planes](https://www.arctictoday.com/norway-takes-delivery-of-boeing-p-8-submarine-hunter-aircraft/) to bolster its long-range spying on all things Russia. The plan to blow up Nord Stream 1 and 2 was suddenly downgraded from a covert operation requiring that Congress be informed to one that was deemed as a highly classified intelligence operation with U.S. Under the law, the source explained, “There was no longer a legal requirement to report the operation to Congress. According to the source, some of the senior officials of the CIA determined that blowing up the pipeline “no longer could be considered a covert option because the President just announced that we knew how to do it.” The recording device and its tape had to be replaced monthly and the project rolled on merrily for a decade until it was compromised by a forty-four-year-old civilian NSA technician There was the usual back and forth chatter that eventually led to a crucial preliminary question: Would the recommendation forwarded by the group to the President be reversible—such as another layer of sanctions and currency restrictions—or irreversible—that is, kinetic actions, which could not be undone? [Nord Stream AG](https://www.nord-stream.com/about-us/), was incorporated in Switzerland in 2005 in partnership with Gazprom, a publicly traded Russian company producing enormous profits for shareholders which is dominated by oligarchs known to be in the thrall of Putin. The Biden Administration was doing everything possible to avoid leaks as the planning took place late in 2021 and into the first months of 2022.

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Who is Seymour Hersh, the Pulitzer-winning journalist who claims ... (Firstpost)

Seymour Hersh is a veteran investigative journalist, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reportage on the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War.

From the fall of 2013 to September 2015, he says, US military leaders effectively conducted a secret alliance with Assad and with Russian president Vladimir Putin, whom they saw as their best allies in fighting ISIS, according to a Vox article. In 1973, Hersh revealed the clandestine bombing of Cambodia. In 2004, he covered the US military’s mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad. Published in 1983, it delves into the influence of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s influence on the country’s foreign policy during Nixon’s time in the White House. Two years later, it led to the resignation of Nixon. This was not reported to the headquarters but instead claimed that 120 Viet Cong, members of an armed Communist organization in South Vietnam, were killed and three weapons captured. A veteran, Hersh has in the past won the Pulitzer Prize, considered the highest honour in journalism. Some of the young women and girls were raped. Hersh later went on to work for The New York Times. He has worked with The New York Times and The New Yorker. During the 1968 presidential election, he served as the press secretary for the campaign of Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy. He quoted an anonymous source “with direct knowledge of the operational planning”.

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Reporter's accusation that US attacked pipelines raises questions (Chinadaily USA)

The pipes were constructed to supply natural gas from Russia to Germany. The explosions occurred in September after the go-ahead was given by US President Joe ...

"Norway was one of the original signatories of the NATO Treaty in 1949, in the early days of the Cold War. The Russians have superlative surveillance of the Baltic Sea," Hersh said the source told him. "'This is not kiddie stuff,'" the source said. 'He is the glove that fits the American hand,'" the source said. The Norwegians may have had other interests as well, Hersh surmised. "I'm troubled that I can't immediately rule out the suggestion that the US blew up Nord Stream," Lee wrote. Hersh wrote that "Biden's decision to sabotage the pipelines came after more than nine months of highly secret back and forth debate inside Washington's national security community about how to best achieve that goal. If it turns out to be true, we've got a huge problem." "The United States destroyed the NordStream 2 pipeline and blamed it on Russia. "I checked with a bunch of Senate colleagues. The pipes were constructed to supply natural gas from Russia to Germany. How is this not the biggest story ever?

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