The US has the most sophisticated undersea capability of any nation state. Tapping transatlantic cables is something at which its intelligence organs are experienced.
It is but one of a long string of sea bottom operations which include Project Azorian, the Thresher and Scorpion investigations, Palomares and probably much that remains classified.
The US has the most sophisticated undersea capability of any nation state. Tapping transatlantic cables is something at which its intelligence organs are experienced.
http://www.zdnet.com/news/spy-agency-taps-into-undersea-cabl...
It is but one of a long string of sea bottom operations which include Project Azorian, the Thresher and Scorpion investigations, Palomares and probably much that remains classified.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Thresher_(SSN-593)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_(SSN-589)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash