Ingen overraskelse i det hele tatt. I boka Blind Man`s Bluff - The untold
story of American
Submarine Espionage, kan du lese om hvordan
amerikanerne tappet sovjetiske kabler. Boka
kan du kjøpe på Amazon.
(Red.)
Russian agents plunge
to new ocean depths in
Ireland to crack transatlantic cables
John Mooney
The Sunday Times
precise location of the fibre-optic, ocean-bed cables
that
connect Europe to America, gardai suspect. This has
raised concerns that Russian agents are checking the
cables for weak points, with a view to tapping or even
damaging them in the future.
Ireland is the landing point for undersea cables which
carry
internet traffic between America, Britain and Europe.
The
cables enable millions of people to communicate and
allow
financial transactions to take place seamlessly.
Garda and military sources believe the agents were
sent by
the GRU, the military intelligence branch of the
Russian
armed forces which was blamed for the nerve agent
attack
in Britain on Sergei Skripal, a former Russian
intelligence
officer.
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