Acoustic Kitty was a CIA project launched in the 1960s attempting to use cats in spy missions. A battery and a microphone were implanted into a cat and an antenna into its tail. Due to problems with distraction, the cat's sense of hunger had to be removed in another operation. Surgical and training expenses are thought to have amounted to over 10 million British pounds.
The first cat mission was eavesdropping on two men in a park outside the Soviet compound on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington, D.C.. The cat was released nearby, but was hit and killed by a taxi almost immediately. Shortly thereafter the project was considered a failure and declared to be a total loss.
(taken verbatim from Wikipedia)
2 comments:
This is for real?? I guess, since it's from Wikipedia....
Reminds me of the US copy machine technician for the Russians or something like that. As part of the maintenance, he went in regularly to change the toner and rollers and what not. Along the way, he installed a camera that took a picture of everything the Russians copied. During maintenance, he replaced the film and took the secrets back to the Americans. Maybe I should look this up sometime to verify.
thursday, 31 may, 2007 16:30 MAT
you believe everything that is on wikipedia ?? wikipedia is great, i must admit. i tend to use it as a starting point for things i'm curious about, but i'm not allowed to cite wikipedia as a reference for anything i research.
poor kittie cat !! =(
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