Seymour Hersh: The White House will not admit responsibility for bombing of “Northern Stream”

WORLD, Feb. 18 (YPA) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh said the White House will not admit responsibility for the North Stream bombing and will force people to remain silent, but representatives of pipeline-related companies know what happened.

The journalist said no to a question about whether he hoped the US Congress would want to consider his articles.

Speaking to Consortiumnews.com, he said: “This is the last thing the White House will do. Look, they will never say, “We give up.” They will never do that, because they can’t. It means that they will continue with this story and will pressure people not to talk. But this is not important. There is a whole community in the pipeline business. They know what happened but they won’t talk about it because they want to continue to get contracts.”

He indicated that he may write more about the “mechanism” of Washington’s preparation for sabotage, adding that this preparation was carried out in complete secrecy.

“The president knew nothing except that ‘we can do it,'” he said. Maybe I’ll write more about the (preparation) mechanism.”

Norway, Sweden and Denmark played a role in the incident, he said, stressing that these countries “will have to clarify” the position they took when they apparently assumed that preparations for sabotage were underway, but preferred to remain silent.

He announced that US divers planted bombs under the “Northern Stream” and Northern Stream-2 gas pipelines during the NATO “Baltops” exercise last summer, and 3 months later the Norwegians detonated these bombs.

The journalist also confirmed that the US president made a decision about carrying out this sabotage after more than 9 months of secret consultations with the national security team. Washington categorically rejected the accusations.

E.M