NEW YORK, February 14. /TASS/. US journalist Seymour Hersh, who last week published a report implicating the US in the explosions at Russian pipelines, on Monday said CIA Director William Burns could take advantage of his role in the blasts at the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines to get the job of the US secretary of state.
"I know he wants to be secretary of state, maybe in the new administration. Maybe, that’s going to help him, to open the doors, I don’t know," he said, referring to the explosions.
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on February 8 published an article where he said, citing a source, that explosives under the Russian Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines were planted by US Navy divers, helped by Norwegian specialists, under the guise of the Baltops exercise in June. The story stated that the CIA and Burns took part in the preparation of the operation, and US president Joe Biden personally authorized the operation after nine months of deliberations with the administration’s national security staff. Adrienne Watson, a spokesperson for the National Security Council at the White House, responded to a request for comment from TASS that the story laid out by Hersh was totally false and complete fiction.