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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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[–] EisFrei@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

What did the dollar man cost ten years later? Just six million, despite inflation!