American investigative journalist and political writer Seymour Hersh claimed that the September 2022 bombing of the undersea Nord Stream gas pipelines was carried out by the US in a covert operation, according to the findings of his investigation published in Substack.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hersh noted that the decision to damage the pipelines occurred after more than nine months of top-secret debates inside the Washington intelligence community. Throughout most of this time, the question was not whether to carry out the operation but how to do so without tipping off the US government. US Blew Up Undersea Nord Stream Pipeline in Covert Operation in September 2022, Says Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Journalist Hersh.