FUR YOUR EYES ONLY CIA ‘implanted microphones into CATS’ in a bizarre attempt to spy on RussiaSpooks were praised for their 'pioneering work' creating robo-cats in declassified docsBy Neal Baker
28th April 2017, 3:05 am Updated: 28th April 2017, 2:37 pm
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3433398/cia-wikileaks-cats-soviet-russia-spy-programme/CIA spooks tried to spy on Soviet Russia using CATS implanted with microphones under their skin.
Declassified docs show how spy chiefs praised “pioneering” scientists for slitting open moggies and stitching in electronic hardware to uncover their enemies’ secrets.
Dubbed “Project Acoustic Kitty”, the grim £10 million programme was developed over five years in the 1960s as a novel but gruesome new eavesdropping method.
A cat’s tail was used as an antenna and a wire travelled all the way up its spine connecting to a microphone in its ear, while a battery was housed in its chest.
But on its first test, its CIA handlers watched on in horror as their robo-kitty was run over and killed just seconds into the mission.
CIA insider Victor Maarcheti told
The Atlantic: “There they were, sitting in the van and the cat was dead.”
The robo-cat scheme — which was never deployed to the field — resurfaced after Wikileaks this week tweeted a link to the archive CIA memos, which were first unveiled in 2001.
Marchetti, a former CIA officer, told The Telegraph that year of the gruesome creation.
He said: “They slit the cat open, put batteries in him, wired him up.”
...
This is an excerpt. More at
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3433398/cia-wikileaks-cats-soviet-russia-spy-programme/ , including the connection to Wikileaks.
@Freya @Hopalong Ginsberg
