French former mine-clearing diver says this is how Biden carried out his shameless act of war against Russia, Germany and Europe, the destruction of Nord Stream

I SAY IT ALL ON THE GO AND IN THIS ARTICLE:

JOURNALIST  SEYMOUR HERSH  LET HIMSELF MANIPULATED BY HIS SOURCE CONCERNING THE CONDUCT OF THE SABOTAGE OPERATION OF THE NORD STREAM BY DIVERS.

My comment at the end of the article.

Dominique PRACHERSTORFER

What does Seymour Hersh say on his site?
February 8, 2023

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream

Below is the full translated version:

“ Lhe US Navy Dive and Rescue Center sits in a location as obscure as its name, on what was once a country road in rural Panama City, a booming resort town in southwestern Florida, 70 miles south of the Alabama border. The center’s complex is as indescribable as its location — a drab, post-World War II concrete structure that looks like a vocational high school on Chicago’s west side. A laundromat and a dance school are across what is now a four-lane road. The center has been training highly skilled deep-sea divers for decades who, once assigned to US military units around the world, are able to technically dive for good – using C4 explosives to clear harbors and beaches of debris and unexploded ordnance – as well as evil, such as blowing up foreign oil rigs, smearing the valves of admission for underwater power plants. destroy locks on crucial shipping channels.

D owntown Panama City, which has the second largest indoor swimming pool in America, was the perfect place to recruit the best and most taciturn graduates of the diving school who achieved last summer what they had been cleared to do 260 feet below the surface of the Baltic Sea.

Last June, Navy divers, operating under the guise of a widely publicized mid-summer NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22, planted the remotely-triggered explosives which, three months later later destroyed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines, according to a source with direct knowledge of operational planning.

Two pipelines, known collectively as Nord Stream 1, had supplied Germany and much of Western Europe with cheap Russian natural gas for more than a decade. A second pair of pipelines, called Nord Stream 2, had been built but was not yet operational.

Now , with Russian troops massed on the Ukrainian border and the bloodiest war in Europe since 1945, President Joseph  Biden  has seen pipelines as a way for Vladimir Putin to weaponize natural gas for his political and territorial ambitions. Asked to comment,  White House spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said in an email: “This is complete and false fiction. Tammy  Thorp,  spokeswoman for the Central Intelligence Agency, also wrote: “  This claim is completely and utterly false. »

Biden ‘s decision  to  sabotage the pipelines came  after more than nine months of top-secret debates within Washington’s national security community about how best to achieve that goal.  For much of this time, the question was not whether to do the mission, but how to do it without any obvious idea of ​​who was in charge. There was a vital bureaucratic reason to rely on graduates from the center’s hardcore diving school in Panama City.

The divers were only Navy, not members of the United States Special Operations Command, whose covert operations must be reported to Congress and briefed in advance to the leaders of the Senate and House – the so- saying Gang of Eight. The  Biden administration  was doing everything possible to avoid leaks, as planning took place in late 2021 and into the early months of 2022.

President Biden  and his foreign policy team – National Security Advisor  Jake Sullivan , Secretary of State  Tony Blinken 

 

and  Victoria Nuland , the Under Secretary of State for Policy

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This Jewess born Nudelman….

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– had expressed their hostility to the two pipelines, which stretch side by side for 750 miles under the Baltic Sea from two different ports in northeastern Russia, near the Estonian border. passing near the Danish island of Bornholm before ending in northern Germany.

T he direct route, which bypassed any need to transit through Ukraine, had been a boon to the German economy, which benefited from an abundance of cheap Russian natural gas – enough to run its factories and heat its homes while by allowing German distributors to sell excess gas, at a profit, throughout Western Europe. An action that could be attributed to the administration would violate US promises to minimize direct conflict with Russia. Secrecy is essential.

From its inception, Nord Stream 1 was viewed by Washington and its anti-Russian NATO partners as a threat to Western dominance. The holding company behind it, Nord Stream AG, was incorporated in Switzerland in 2005 in partnership with Gazprom, a Russian listed company producing huge profits for shareholders and dominated by oligarchs known to be under Putin’s thumb  . . Gazprom controlled 51% of the company, with four European energy companies – one in France, one in the Netherlands and two in Germany – sharing the remaining 49% of the shares and having the right to control downstream sales of cheap natural gas. to local distributors in Germany and Western Europe. Gazprom’s profits have been shared with the Russian government, and state oil and gas revenues have been estimated in some years at 45% of Russia’s annual budget.

America’s political fears were real:  Putin would  now have an additional and much-needed major source of income, and Germany and the rest of Western Europe would become dependent on cheap natural gas supplied by Russia – while decreasing Europe’s dependence on America. In fact, that is exactly what happened. Many Germans saw Nord Stream 1 as part of the deliverance of former Chancellor  Willy Brandt’s famous Ostpolitik theory, that would allow post-war Germany to rehabilitate itself and other European nations destroyed in World War II by using, among other initiatives, cheap Russian gas to fuel a thriving market and trading economy in Western Europe .

Nord Stream 1 was dangerous enough, in the opinion of NATO and Washington, but Nord Stream 2, whose construction was completed in September 2021, would, if approved by German regulators, double the amount of cheap gas available for Germany and Western Europe. The second pipeline would also provide enough gas for more than 50% of Germany’s annual consumption. Tensions steadily escalated between Russia and NATO, bolstered by the Biden administration’s aggressive foreign policy.

Opposition to Nord Stream 2 erupted on the eve of Biden’s inauguration in January 2021, when Senate Republicans, led by Ted  Cruz  of Texas  (It’s the US oil-producing state – Oil Reserves of Texas represent about a quarter of the known reserves in the United States – Texas ranks first nationally for natural gas – Editor’s note), repeatedly raised the political threat of cheap Russian natural gas during Blinken’s confirmation hearing as secretary of state. By then, a unified Senate had successfully passed legislation that, as Cruz told Blinken, “stopped [the pipeline] in its tracks.” There would be enormous political and economic pressure from the German government, then led by Angela Merkel, to put the second gas pipeline into operation.

Would he stand up to the Germans? Blinken said yes, but added that he had not discussed the specifics of the new president’s views. ”  I know his strong belief that it’s a bad idea, Nord Stream 2  ,” he said. “  I know he would want us to use all the tools of persuasion at our disposal to convince our friends and partners, including Germany, not to go ahead.  A few months later, as construction on the second pipeline neared completion, Biden blinked. In May of that year, in a stunning U-turn, the administration dropped sanctions against Nord Stream AG, with a State Department official conceding that trying to stop the pipeline through sanctions and diplomacy had “ always been a long shot  ”.

Behind the scenes, administration officials reportedly urged Ukrainian President  Volodymyr Zelensky , then facing the threat of a Russian invasion, not to criticize the move. There were immediate consequences. Senate Republicans, led by  Cruz , announced an immediate blockade of all  Biden  foreign policy nominees and delayed passage of the annual defense bill for months, until the fall. Politico later described  Biden  ‘s U-turn on the second Russian pipeline as “the only decision, arguably more than the chaotic military withdrawal from Afghanistan, that has jeopardized Biden’s agenda.”

The administration was floundering, despite a reprieve from the crisis in mid-November, when German energy regulators suspended approval for the second Nord Stream gas pipeline. Natural gas prices jumped 8% in days as fears grew in Germany and Europe that the pipeline suspension and the growing possibility of war between Russia and Ukraine could lead to a very undesirable cold winter. Washington did not know exactly where Olaf Scholz, the new German chancellor, was.

A few months earlier, after the fall of Afghanistan,  Scholtz had publicly endorsed French President Emmanuel Macron  ‘s call   for a more autonomous European foreign policy in a speech in Prague, clearly suggesting less dependence on Europe. regard to Washington and its mercurial actions. All the while, Russian troops had been steadily and ominously building up on Ukraine’s borders, and by the end of December more than 100,000 troops were in position to strike from Belarus and Crimea.

Concern was growing in Washington, including an assessment by  Blinken  that those numbers could be ”  doubled in a short time  .” The administration’s attention was once again focused on Nord Stream. As long as Europe remained dependent on pipelines for cheap natural gas, Washington feared that countries like Germany would be reluctant to supply Ukraine with the money and weapons it needed to defeat Russia.

It was at this troubled moment that  Biden  authorized  Jake Sullivan  to assemble an interagency group to come up with a plan. All options had to be on the table. But only one would emerge.

I n December 2021, two months before the first Russian tanks arrived in Ukraine,  Jake Sullivan  called a meeting of a newly formed task force – men and women of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA and from the State and Treasury Departments — and asked for recommendations on how to respond to  Putin ‘s impending invasion .

It would be the first in a series of top-secret meetings, in a secure room on the top floor of the Old Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House, which also housed the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB). ). There was the usual chatter  which eventually led to a crucial preliminary question  :-

– would the recommendation passed by the group to the president be  reversible  – like another layer of sanctions and monetary restrictions –

– or  irreversible  – that is to say kinetic actions, which could not be undone? What became clear to participants, according to the source with direct knowledge of the process, was that Sullivan intended the group to come up with a plan for the destruction of the two Nord Stream pipelines – and that he was fulfilling the wishes Of the president.

In subsequent meetings, participants discussed options for an attack.

The Navy offered to use a newly commissioned submarine to attack the pipeline directly.

The Air Force discussed dropping bombs with delayed fuses that could be triggered remotely.

The CIA argued that whatever it was, it would have to be secret. Everyone involved understood the issues. ”  It’s not a kid thing  ,” the source said.

If the attack was attributable to the United States, “it is an act of war”.

At  the time, the CIA was headed by  William Burns , a mild-mannered former ambassador to Russia who had served as Assistant Secretary of State in the  Obama administration . Burns  quickly authorized an Agency task force whose ad hoc members included, coincidentally,  someone familiar with the capabilities of Navy deep-sea divers in Panama City .

Over the next few weeks, members of the CIA task force began developing a plan for a covert operation that would use deep-sea divers to set off an explosion along the pipeline. Something like this had been done before.

En 1971, the American intelligence community learned from still unknown sources that two important units of the Russian Navy were communicating via an underwater cable buried in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, on the far eastern coast of Russia. The cable connected a regional naval command to the mainland headquarters in Vladivostok. The hand-picked team of Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency operatives were assembled somewhere in the DC area, undercover, and hatched a plan, using Navy divers, sub -modified marines and a deep underwater rescue vehicle, which succeeded, after much trial and error, in locating the Russian cable. The divers placed a sophisticated listening device on the cable which successfully intercepted the Russian traffic and recorded it on a recording system. The NSA has learned that senior Russian Navy officers, convinced of the security of their communication link, were chatting with their peers without encryption. The recording device and its tape had to be replaced every month and the project continued happily for a decade until it was compromised by a forty-four-year-old civilian NSA technician named Ronald Pelton. who was fluent in Russian. Pelton was betrayed by a Russian defector in 1985 and sentenced to prison. He was only paid $5,000 by the Russians for his revelations about the operation, as well as $35,000 for other Russian operational data he provided that was never made public. This submarine success, codenamed Ivy Bells, was innovative and risky, and yielded invaluable intelligence about the intentions and planning of the Russian Navy.

Back to Nord Stream (Editor’s note)

The interagency group was initially skeptical of the CIA’s enthusiasm for a covert attack on the high seas. There were too many unanswered questions. The waters of the Baltic Sea were heavily patrolled by the Russian Navy, and there were no oil rigs that could be used as cover for a diving operation. Will divers have to travel to Estonia, just across the border from Russia’s natural gas loading docks, to train for the mission? “  It would be a goat fuck  ,” the Agency was told. Throughout “  all this storyline  ,” the source said, “some CIA and State Department workers were saying: ‘Do not do that. It’s stupid and it will be a political nightmare if it comes out.  »

Nevertheless , in early 2022, the CIA task force reported to  Sullivan ‘s inter-agency group  : ”  We have a way to blow up the pipelines . What came next was magnificent. On February 7, less than three weeks before the seemingly inevitable Russian invasion of Ukraine,  Biden  met in his White House office with German Chancellor  Olaf Scholz , who, after some hesitation, was now firmly on the team. American. In the press conference that followed,  Biden  defiantly declared, ”  If Russia invades…there will be no more Nord Stream 2. We will end it.”

Twenty days earlier, Undersecretary  Nuland  had delivered essentially the same message at a State Department briefing, with little media coverage. ”  I want to be very clear to you today,” she said in response to a question. “If Russia invades Ukraine, Nord Stream 2 will not go forward one way or another. »

M any of those involved in planning the pipeline mission were appalled by what they saw as indirect references to the attack . “It was like putting an atomic bomb on the ground in Tokyo and telling the Japanese we were going to detonate it,” the source said.

“  The plan was for the options to be executed after the invasion and not announced publicly. Biden simply didn’t get it or ignored it . “(Normal BIDEN is senile – Editor’s note).

Biden  and  Nuland ‘s indiscretion  , if that was what it was, might have frustrated some of the planners. But it also created an opportunity. According to the source, some senior CIA officials determined that blowing up the pipeline ”  could no longer be considered a secret option because the president just announced that we knew how to do it  .”

The plan to blow up Nord Stream 1 and 2 was suddenly downgraded from a covert operation  requiring Congress to be informed  to an operation considered highly classified intelligence with US military support.

Under the law, the source explained:

“  There was no longer a legal requirement to report the operation to Congress. All they had to do now  was do it , but  it still had to be secret . The Russians have exceptional surveillance of the Baltic Sea.  »

The members of the Agency task force had no direct contact with the White House and were eager to know if the President meant what he said, that is, if the mission was now launched.

The source recalled: ”  Bill Burns comes back and says, ‘Do it .’ »

 

Dominic’s comment:

It’s really simpletons, these ricans. The most serious thing is that

–  On the one hand , these American hawks considered themselves the policemen of the world and destroyers of democracy! ASSOUNDS.

– On the other hand,  to strengthen their battered economy, the Americans are ready to launch all imaginable wars on the planet. RE-ASSOUNDS

Fortunately,  Vladimir Putin,  accompanied by his Chinese colleague  XI Jinping,  is on the move to defeat this deep Rican hegemonist state.

Although some Russophobic imbeciles (including our “expert” generals of TV shows who shame France) persist in wanting to send  Vladimir  to the International Criminal Court, in a short time history will restore the truth and it is these traitors who will be brought them before the ICC.

On my opinion regarding the analysis of Seymour Hersh.

Seymour  brings indisputable confidences in this affair. It’s a real work of investigative journalism. CHEER.

But the “poor guy” is not a diving specialist and there he had no analysis and he got rolled in the flour by “his source” who leaked information that had to be retained by Seymour for the posterity and concerning a sabotage operation carried out by divers.

But coming from the CIA I say that the intox was well mounted. Knowing that, moreover, the CIA gave us as a bonus the preposterous story of the Ukrainian divers with their rental yacht (sic)

Indeed, there was no other way to hijack the confession of the senile President  BIDEN  who had confessed “ that the USA had the means to destroy Nord Stream ”. Admission confirmed by  Nuland.

But by slipping completely false information on an intervention by diver, at the same time the CIA sent the  Biden version back  as fake news and the affair of  Biden ‘s words  was strewn with doubts and therefore buried. Classic brainwashing technique!

Seymour  wonderfully explains the exchanges of opinion within the  Biden administration  and this fake news to fix  Biden ‘s “bullshit”  is an operation worthy of the brains of the CIA of which Seymour was only a vehicle to transmit the fake news.

In addition,  Seymour  underlines the Pentagon’s intention to use the divers, because  this operation would not require the authorization of the US Parliament.  OK

Similarly  Seymour  informs us that: “ The Navy has offered to use a newly commissioned submarine to attack the pipeline directly ”.

Obviously it is the ORCA underwater drone!

 

 

Baptism and launch of the ORCA – May 2022

 

The rear part of the docked ORCA drone

I suppose that in the discussions of the “officials” concerned with this secret operation, there must be an “intelligent” who made it known that the thickness of the gas pipelines required a very large explosive charge that could not be manipulated by autonomous divers.

Which would have put this option by autonomous diver definitively in the trash!

Except to allow each diver to move himself on a powered device capable of supporting an additional load of 150 kg. But these devices with the diver sitting on it are from the last war!

And  why make it complicated

how easy can it be?

The US NAVY has had an operational ORCA drone for a few months, capable of carrying out this secret mission with 100% efficiency (sic) without any intervention from the surface.

Why look elsewhere?

It is obvious that the strategy that was decided by the involvement of this ORCA drone was the guarantee of the success of the secret operation.

This is a device that only the USA has at this time.

At the same time, the plan to sabotage Nord Stream 1 and 2 was suddenly downgraded to an operation considered highly classified with American military support and therefore without the need to inform Congress.

Anyway I explain in a previous article that the use of divers is impossible in this sabotage.

Indeed the opinion of the Swedish experts who made traverse the zone with an underwater drone on the site of the explosions, indicates an enormous crater around a gas pipeline but especially a tear on 50 meters on one of them ”.

This description is enough for me  to denounce the power of the necessary explosive charge which was applied against the gas pipeline to destroy it. Which imposes the use of a charge of several hundred kilos of explosives impossible to implement by autonomous divers, even professional ones (it is my past as a clearance diver that allows me to make this statement) .

BUT THE TECHNIQUE USED BY THE US NAVY TO ENSURE THIS SABOTAGE IS CONFIDENTIAL… not for everyone!

It turns out that the US NAVY had just put into service (June 2022) its first ORCA underwater drone capable of placing an explosive charge of several hundred kilos against a target to be destroyed.

Indeed this drone can carry 12 torpedoes! The deposit of one or even two torpedoes along the gas pipeline will explain this tear over 50 meters long told by this inspection of the Swedish…

Between us, let it be said, a technological marvel capable, thanks to its artificial intelligence, of acting as well as with a crew!

HERE IS THE EXPLORE OF THE “ORCA” DRONE  WHICH WAS USED BY THE US NAVY TO SABOTATE NORD STREAM 1 AND 2 IN SEPTEMBER 2023 according to Dominique Pracherstorfer.

Here is the link that refers to my previous article concerning the ad hoc capabilities of this brand new US drone.

I also indicate the reasons for the Russians to continue their investigations since the Danes have just claimed to have seen an UNEXPLOSED charge on the site (it’s the best way to know who the saboteur is!):

https://arakanui.over-blog.com/2023/03/du-nouveau-sur-les-sabotages-nord-stream.html

 

I want to repeat it HERE, our Russian friends have an unexpected chance to discover who is the author of the sabotage, since according to the Danes one of the explosive devices used to sabotage the gas pipeline would not have exploded? What is possible.

Consequently the Russians would hold the possibility of discovering who is the author of the sabotages by inspecting the “signature” of the machine.

Knowing that without this “signature” the truth will NEVER be revealed.

It will surely be a race against time to get your hands or even an eye on this unexploded device.

The problem is that our Vladimir spilled the beans and the Americans now know that the lake is on fire IF the Russians put their eyes on this device.

I cross my fingers for my Russian friends who could put on the finish line, these hegemonist Rican assholes who are in full decline at all levels, and learn about the “signature” of the machine.

REFLECTION ON THE DISCOVERY OF AN UNEXPLODED DEVICE:  

I admit that the information provided by Vladimir Putin leaves me perplexed. Indeed, it must be understood that IF the signature of this device is revealed the Americans are definitely responsible for a “declaration of war”. It should be taken very seriously.

Diplomatically speaking I do not understand why this info was provided by the Danes? Indeed, these members of NATO and under the orders of Yankeeland (the Danes provided military equipment to Ukraine) would provide PROOF revealing the author of the sabotage! I find it hard to believe it, because it is such a huge consequence.

Except that our Vladimir would have “recovered” the info by his Services always at the forefront.

Anyway, IF the info turns out to be correct, it must be understood that the Danes have photos or film of the machine, so its precise “signature”. Even if the machine was first detected by sonar, it is obvious that a visual inspection was carried out immediately with a small drone.

Which would mean clearly: TO THIS DAY THE DANES KNOW THE IDENTITY OF THE SABOTEUR.

It remains to know how to make them spit the piece?

Given the stakes, the matter is delicate.

Normally if the Danes were well under the orders of the Americans they should have given the info to the CIA which would have done everything possible to remove or even outright destroy the machine on the spot, but in no case disseminate the info.

I repeat this unexploded device is a virtual ATOMIC BOMB.

I cross my fingers that Russia obtains the photos of this device and is able to demand its removal so that it is exposed on the ground (hoping that it does not explode during the ascent… because the reason for not fire is unknown). This is a tricky maneuver that French clearance divers are absolutely capable of performing in depths of 80 meters.

The proof ?

I’ve done it many times already!

NB:

For all intents and purposes IF any of my readers had contact with a Russian diplomat or other influential figure, the above info is not silly and worth passing on. Thank you in advance and long live Russia.