It was America who took out the Nord Stream Pipeline, said Seymour Myron Hersh, an American investigative journalist and political writer, who prior to recently being defamed, because of the explosive exposure of the US Administration's direct participation in State level Sabotage and Terrorism of the Russian pipeline which brought cheap enegy to Germany and the rest of Europe; he was renowned for having '... gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting ...'.