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To: goldsnow who wrote (16943)	8/25/2000 5:16:18 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Hi Goldsnow, The Dagestanis were not crewmembers: Dagestanis probed Prosecutor-general Vladimir Ustinov said the appropriate statute of the criminal code would be determined once the cause of the accident was established. At the same time, Russia's secret services have launched a probe into two Dagestanis who were on board the Kursk when it sank. The chief of the Federal Security Service, Nikolai Patrushev, was quoted by Russian media as saying that the two men, Mamed Gadzhiyev and Arnold Borisov, worked for a torpedo-manufacturing firm and were not members of the crew. [...] __________________ Anyway, this intelligence breach raises another interesting issue: the reliability and loyalty of the Russian navy's command. After all, if Russian army officers are on the dodge with barrack surplus, if former USSR garrison officers in East-Germany made money from their dismissal in the 1990s, if nuclear PhDs are ready to take off for a coupla more tenners, if sacked KGB spooks keep working fiddle after fiddle, then tell me why nuclear submarine officers would remain the last squeaky-clean-handful? Dunno much about nuclear subs' technology (acoustic signature and the like) but I think it possible that one of the Kursk's officers was actually a spy.... Such a scenario might explain why the Russians have completely snafued the rescue operation --better to leave no survivor who could later blow the whistle on the real cause of the wrecking. A treason scandal in the navy is the last snag Putin wants to hit --after all, we're dealing with Russia's nuclear deterrent here!