Some context from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Nord_Stream_pipeline_sabotage#Involvement_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/202

Some context from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Nord_Stream_pipeline_sabotage#Involvement_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Nord_Stream_pipeline_sabo...): > On 8 February 2023, American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published an article on his Substack page in which he alleged that the attack was ordered by the White House and carried out utilizing American and Norwegian assets by mining the pipelines in June during BALTOPS 2022 with a subsequent remote controlled detonation. The post relied on a single anonymous source, whom Hersh described as having "direct knowledge of the operational planning." The White House responded to the story by calling it "utterly false and complete fiction". Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that those allegations are "nonsense". Norwegian commentator Harald S. Klungtveit challenged the accuracy of Hersh's claims, such as the notion that Alta-class minesweepers had participated in BALTOPS 2022, or that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg had been cooperating with US intelligence since the Vietnam War, when he was a teenager and fervently opposed to NATO. Subsequently, Hersh stated that the trail the German investigators were following on the "pro-Ukrainian group" that used a rented yacht was a false flag fabrication created by the CIA and fed to US and German outlets.