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Year most of them caused by natural occurrences. but could vladimir putin, the russian president who's been so antagonistic to his rivals recently, could he and his navy be posing an increased threat to those cables? the "new york times" reports that more than a dozen unnamed pentagon officials have raised concern that russian submarines and spy ships like this one are aggressively patrolling near important fiberoptic cables which carry the bulk of the world's internet communications. those cables are a couple of miles down on the ocean floor. there's about 373,000 miles of cable down there ru...

Think of it as something in the sky. well, the cloud is really under the ocean. >> reporter: jonathan works with a company which monitors telecom infrastructures. he says there are hundreds of these cables stretching across the ocean floors, enough he says to span the global at the equator 15 times. he says if multiple under sea cables were cut at once, it could harm american business and government interests and could have even more catastrophic effects on europe. tonight, the pentagon won't confirm the concerns raised in the new york times. one u.s. official says while the russians could tam...

Facts." another official told me this looks like the pentagon devising random threats to make the russians look bad. on the record, the pentagon spokesman, captain jeff davis, said they're not going to comment on sensitive intelligence matters, that it would be a concern to hear that any country was tampering with communications. we have to say, wolf, there's no evidence yet of any cable cutting or anything like that. it is a concern raised in "the new york times" report about these russian naval operations becoming maybe a little more aggressive. >> no evidence of cutting and certainly no evi...