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Operation Acoustic Kitty: The CIA spent about $15 million surgically implanting a microphone in a cat's ear, a transmitter under its skin, and an antenna through its tail to spy on Soviet conversatio… (lemmy.world)

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Full title: Operation Acoustic Kitty: The CIA spent about $15 million surgically implanting a microphone in a cat's ear, a transmitter under its skin, and an antenna through its tail to spy on Soviet conversations

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, the money went to Katianna the cleaning lady at the embassy and the story about the $15m spy cat was to cover up how they got the information.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'd be okay with that if true

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

The cleaning lady was actually a soviet honeypot named Nickloi who only slept with his targets with the lights off.

[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Where the cat? Oh, um, it got run over by a car.