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Submarine cables have actually been tapped in the past, so cutting them should not be much of a challenge. Blind Man's Bluff [1] is a book about this kind of thing (and all sorts of weird things that involve intelligence operations performed with submarines). It is one of those books that would not work if it were fiction: too unrealistic.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42343.Blind_Man_s_Bluff

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I have a buddy who is working on a sub. He couldn't really say what he was doing with much detail, but recommended this book. He says it contains a lot of secret info which was acquired by the author basically becoming friends with lots of submariners and them over time mentioning things.

I haven't read it yet, but it's on my list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter

it's been modified to do something interesting, though whether that involves messing with the russian version of the SOSUS network, or tapping undersea fiber cables, is certainly classified at a very high level.

Kind of ironic considering Carter has a Nobel Peace Prize.

Not really - he was a submarine nuke engineer before going into politics.

I've got a friend in the sub force. He recommended 'Blind Man's Bluff'.

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