{"id":64970,"date":"2023-02-08T18:40:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T23:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64970"},"modified":"2023-02-08T18:40:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T23:40:55","slug":"how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64970","title":{"rendered":"How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline<\/a><\/h3>\n

The New York Times called it a \u201cmystery,\u201d but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret\u2014until now<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The U.S. Navy\u2019s Diving and Salvage Center can be found in a location as obscure as its name\u2014down what was once a country lane in rural Panama City, a now-booming resort city in the southwestern panhandle of Florida, 70 miles south of the Alabama border. The center\u2019s complex is as nondescript as its location\u2014a drab concrete post-World War II structure that has the look of a vocational high school on the west side of Chicago. A coin-operated laundromat and a dance school are across what is now a four-lane road.<\/p>\n

The center has been training highly skilled deep-water divers for decades who, once assigned to American military units worldwide, are capable of technical diving to do the good\u2014using C4 explosives to clear harbors and beaches of debris and unexploded ordinance\u2014as well as the bad, like blowing up foreign oil rigs, fouling intake valves for undersea power plants, destroying locks on crucial shipping canals. The Panama City center, which boasts the second largest indoor pool in America, was the perfect place to recruit the best, and most taciturn, graduates of the diving school who successfully did last summer what they had been authorized to do 260 feet under the surface of the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n

Last June, the Navy divers, operating under the cover of a widely publicized mid-summer NATO exercise known as\u00a0BALTOPS 22<\/a>, planted the remotely triggered explosives that, three months later, destroyed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines, according to a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning.<\/p>\n

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How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline The New York Times called it a \u201cmystery,\u201d but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret\u2014until now The U.S. Navy\u2019s Diving and Salvage Center can be found in a location as obscure as its name\u2014down what was once a country lane in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[359,1921,33673,694,5340,827,834],"class_list":["post-64970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-germany","tag-new-york-times","tag-nord-stream-pipeline","tag-russia","tag-seymour-hersh","tag-united-states","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64971,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64970\/revisions\/64971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}