Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh no stranger to controversy

U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin, arrive to meet at the 'Villa la Grange' in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 16, 2021. (Patrick Semansky / AP)

Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. reporter Seymour Hersh said this week that U.S. Navy divers, in a CIA operation ordered by U.S. President Joe Biden, planted explosives that destroyed three Russian gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea last September.

The White House dismissed Hersh's report, which relied on a single source to support its claim about the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, as "utterly false and complete fiction."

Reuters was unable to corroborate Hersh's self-published article, which said Biden authorized the operation to blunt Moscow's ability to use gas sales to Europe to fund its invasion of Ukraine.

Here are some key events in Hersh's career:

Reporting by Jonathan Landay; Editing by Don Durfee and Daniel Wallis