$10 million Atomic kitten
AY THE height of the cold war, the CIA wired up cats so that they could listen in to the Kremlin's secrets.
According to the
Telegraph, a moggy was surgically altered to accommodate transmitting and control devices so spooks could listen to secret conversations from window sills, park benches or dustbins.
Victor Marchetti, a former CIA officer said that in Project "Acoustic Kitty" slit the cat open, put batteries in him, wired him up. The tail was used as an antenna.
The problem was that the cat would just bogg off if it got hungry so they stuck a wire in him to override that.
However the first trial turned out to be a disaster when the cat was run over by a taxi. The $10million project was scrapped.
The project has been revealed following the declassification of some of the CIA's Science and Technology Directorate documents.
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