Tag: Intelligence Failures
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The CIA Spent Millions on a Failed Cat Spy Program
In the midst of the Cold War, the CIA embarked on an ambitious and unconventional espionage project known as Operation Acoustic Kitty. The goal was to use cats as covert listening devices to gather intelligence from the Kremlin and Soviet embassies. The CIA’s plan involved surgically implanting a microphone in the cat’s ear canal, a…