Larry Johnson, former CIA and US State Department expert, testified before the UN Security Council that all the evidence points in the direction of one country.
If the international community really wanted to investigate the explosion of Nord Stream 2, they would have the means to do so, he added. Nineteen months have passed since Nord Stream 2 was blown up, but it has still not been officially revealed who exactly was behind the attack. In recent days, several diplomats have demanded an investigation into the case.
Political commentator Larry C. Johnson, an expert in the fight against terrorism, dissected the circumstances of the gas pipeline sabotage before the UN Security Council this week and stated:
a comprehensive and transparent investigation led by the Security Council is needed.
The CIA and State Department veteran said in his speech that he did not want to examine in detail the evidence that the United States had committed the sabotage. "There was no compelling national security interest that would have justified the destruction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, which caused a significant economic loss to the German population," he said, implying that, in his opinion, Washington could still be behind the incident.
“During my time at the CIA, I understood how covert operations were planned and executed in places like Afghanistan and Central America. Such operations are not carried out in the heat of the moment. They are financed, planned and rehearsed before they are implemented.
Seymour Hersh's account of the US covert operation against the Nord Stream gas pipeline is consistent with the knowledge I gained during my time at the agency in the late 1980s."
he declared.
According to the expert, NATO countries follow the "rule of the three wise monkeys": don't look, don't hear and don't say the wrong thing.
Johnson said:
he has some insight into the logistics and execution of the pipeline attack thanks to his 22 years of work for the US military's special operations forces.
He added that his experience shows that if the UN wants to, it could carry out an investigation that could clearly establish with the help of documents, informants and witnesses who carried out the explosion, which the expert clearly called an "act of war".
An image provided by the Danish Armed Forces shows bubbles breaking on the surface of the sea in a circle roughly one kilometer in diameter due to a leak in the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipelines transporting natural gas from Russia to Germany off the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea on September 27, 2022 (Photo: MTI/AP/Danish Armed Forces)
"They carried out (the bombing) with the financial and material support of at least one nation-state. There are written records that are almost certainly top secret and stored with very limited access. But there may be evidence available outside of such secret records that may shed light on the case, if not solve the mystery.
My message today is simple. Follow the money! Also ask who benefits from this?”
Johnson concluded.
Germany is currently conducting a comprehensive investigation into the explosion of the gas pipeline. Ukraine's Western allies in the UN Security Council expressed their hope that Berlin's investigation will provide a clear answer to who was responsible for the sabotage.
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