Hersh writes:
The C4 attached to the pipelines would be triggered by a sonar buoy dropped by a plane on short notice
Baxter wrote:
One of the P-8’s sonar operators, however, gave JAG investigators an entirely different story. He wrote in a sworn deposition that the P-8 dropped the first buoy directly over where the explosion had taken place.
It seems the sonar man was not in on it, and the pilots were sworn to secrecy by some admiral loyal to Biden. The sonarman is unaware that his buoy triggered the explosion. The aircraft's flight recording data is missing, because it would reveal the buoy was dropped before the explosion, not after.
I suspect that they would have limited knowledge of the operation as much as possible.
Buoy man wouldn’t have needed to know. Safer for him not to know, in fact.
Any type of clandestine operation that will negatively affect civillians is going to operate like that. As few people as as possible are in the loop.
Yes, it is a good example of compartmentalization. The pilots also probably don't have the real story.
For further evidence, Monkey Werx analyzed the flight of the P-8 in his podcast:
SITREP 10.3.22 - The HAAWC Missile System - If it looks like a duck! (YT 36:36)
Don't be thrown off by the "HAAWC Missile" reference. He makes clear that element is only speculation