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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
Pretty sure the cat was immediately run over by a car and no intel was gained.
Well... That's the most evil thing I've ever heard of
That's a normal workday for the CIA at the peak of the Cold War. Apparently getting dosed with acid was something of an occupational hazard in the '50s if you worked for the CIA which might explain some of their more unusual operations.
You must not have heard about much of the CIA's adventures huh?
Worse things are happening today with Neuralink.
How is this wose than putting a hole into a cow to release methane?
Isn't that done to help the cow? Their stomachs can rupture otherwise
A cat? Gaurenteed they are going to fuck up whatever plan you have in mind. They can sense what you want them to do and the fuck you part of their brain is instantly activated. Whomever thought this up knew jack about cats.
Yeah like not supporting this equipping animals with cybernetic enhancements nonsense, but did it not occur to any of them that dogs exist?
They did. Project got canceled because of problems with the training and that cats was killed by environmental stuff like cars.
Wasn't the cat immediately hit by a car or something?
That's the story. Which has to be at least partially bullshit.
Yes.
Honestly though, this smells like embezzlement or moving funds to some clandestine project.
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.
I'd be okay with that if true
The cleaning lady was actually a soviet honeypot named Nickloi who only slept with his targets with the lights off.
Where the cat? Oh, um, it got run over by a car.
In view of recent events, I find it difficult to believe ANYTHING our government says.
I don't even think this was the government lying to the public. I think it was a CIA department lying to their superiors. Same with those CIA remote viewing experiments. Come up with a cover story that's so embarrassing, the higher ups will bury it.
Guys, let's spend 15 million on LSD and a trip to the woods. Just put cat microphone on the paperwork or something, no one checks.
Yea, I think we're on the same page.
The CIA has been hiding what they do for a long time now. Your guess is as good as mine.
Do you really believe that the CIA "superiors" didn't know about the cover up stories and their necessity to chaff the signals up and dilute all of the coups, human trafficking, narcotics empire building, and more realistic ineptitude based fuck ups with wacky zany stories about staring at goats?
If so, their use of silly is working.
No, because I think every layer of the CIA thinks they know what's best and that they shouldn't have to answer to anyone, including their own boss.
No, because I think secrets can stay safer the fewer people who know about them. The boss may have a general idea of what's going on, but the less they know, the less chance there could be a leak from a Man In The Middle attack. The bosses probably have a Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. They probably knew the cat story and remote viewing story were nonsense, but knew it was dangerous to know what's actually going on and left it be.
One was. What they don't know is that the taxi was being driven by a cat who had been assigned the mission to preserve the secrecy of their own clandestine meetings.
Poor cat :c
and I thought my vet bills were expensive.
poor Kitty
What did the dollar man cost ten years later? Just six million, despite inflation!