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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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[–] crystalmathadept@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Pretty sure the cat was immediately run over by a car and no intel was gained.

[–] TwodogsFighting 4 points 1 day ago

That's OK, the mission to steal 14.99 million dollars was a rousing success.

[–] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The cat immediately ran into traffic to stop the misery of its CIA induced horror life.