The Hungarian public got to know the name of the veteran American investigative journalist when he named the United States as responsible for the Nord Stream bombing a few weeks ago. And now he claims that his government is using the CIA cover story to distract attention.

The Biden administration still does not admit that he blew up the Nord Stream, writes Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in his latest article.

Back in mid-February, Hersh outlined his theory of

he claims, citing intelligence but anonymous sources, that the USA blew up the Nord Stream gas pipeline,

which connects Russia and Germany under the Baltic Sea. In the article, he explains how he believes the US government, in conjunction with the CIA, planned to detonate the lines, how they were detonated, and how they tried to deal with the aftermath of the detonation. Hersh states:

US divers, under the guise of the international military exercise Baltops 2022, placed C4 charges around the gas pipelines, which were later detonated. According to the journalist's sources, the order was issued by Joe Biden himself.  

The White House called Hersh's article "totally false and a complete fabrication."

In his current shorter article, The Cover-up, Hersh summarizes what has happened - or rather, what hasn't happened - since then. As he writes:

the Western European – especially the German – press covered his reports, but the American ones kept it quiet.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met with Joe Biden in early March, but in the only CNN interview with Scholz, he was not asked about the matter.

He adds: the two governments have not publicly addressed the matter, but according to his own anonymous diplomatic source, "the CIA was asked to produce a cover story in cooperation with the German secret service, which could be sold to the American and German media, like Nord Stream 2. alternative history of its destruction."

Hersh reminds us that

in recent weeks, another theory about the bombing has appeared in the American and German public.

The author does not elaborate on this, but otherwise, according to the newly published theory, the traces of the bombing clearly lead in the direction of Ukraine, but there is no evidence of who ordered the action.

In response, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi denied that Ukraine had anything to do with the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea last fall. According to him, this information is being disseminated in order to slow down the delivery of aid to Ukraine.

American investigative journalist and political writer Seymour Hersh first gained recognition in 1969 for uncovering the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 1970. In the 1970s, Hersh covered the Watergate scandal for The New York Times and exposed the secret bombing of Cambodia. In 2004, he reported on the US military's mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. He has also won two National Magazine Awards and five George Polk Awards. In 2004, he received the George Orwell Prize.

Hersh accused the Obama administration of lying about the events surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden,

and disputed claims that the Assad regime used chemical weapons against civilians in the Syrian civil war.

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