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The Creepy, Long-Standing Practice of Undersea Cable Tapping


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In the early 1970s, the U.S. government learned that an undersea cable ran parallel to the Kuril Islands off the eastern coast of Russia, providing a vital communications link between two major Soviet naval bases.

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