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...
U
Declassified
Timeline
- 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
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Pages
13 pages
File Size
574.74 KB