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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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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'd be okay with that if true

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

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