In the midst of the Cold War, in 1960, the CIA decided to put one of the strangest ideas in the history of intelligence into action.
🥸The idea was simple—and at the same time insane: to turn an ordinary cat into a device for eavesdropping on Soviet diplomats.
The project was named “Acoustic Kitty.”
🎤The cat was implanted with a listening device and then trained by the best trainers.
💸The entire training process took several years and cost $10 million—which is roughly $95 million today.
☠️The result: during its very first mission, the cat was hit by a taxi.
🥸The idea was simple—and at the same time insane: to turn an ordinary cat into a device for eavesdropping on Soviet diplomats.
The project was named “Acoustic Kitty.”
🎤The cat was implanted with a listening device and then trained by the best trainers.
💸The entire training process took several years and cost $10 million—which is roughly $95 million today.
☠️The result: during its very first mission, the cat was hit by a taxi.