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CIA • 2000

RUSSIA'S KURSK DISASTER: REACTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS

Approved for Release: 2015/03/19 006288246 Secret (b)(3) Intelligence Report Office of Russian and European Analysis Office of Transnational Issues Russia's Kursk Disaster: Reactions and Implications 7 December 2000 An internal weapons malfunction is most likely to have been the trigger for the sinking of the Russian Oscar-H nuclear submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea on 12 August. Russian officials almost certainly do not yet know what sank the Kursk. Continued claims that the triggering event w...
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Created
Mar 16, 2022
Released
Jun 28, 2016
Publication
Dec 7, 2000
Case number
F-2015-00122

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Metadata

Document #

06288246

Case #

F-2015-00122

Document Type

SPECIALCOLLECTION

Collection

FOIA Collection

Release Decision

RIPPUB

Original Classification

U

Sequence

Pages

13 pages

File Size

574.74 KB