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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

How Much Does the Cat-Spy? History of Acoustic Kitty

The film "Cats & Dogs" clearly shows that our pets should be checked not only for fleas and ticks, but the content of any spy devices. But it is in the film, but is it possible to turn a lump of purring fur intelligence agent in?

Let's look first at the opposite camp - the dogs. They have long been working in the field of security. Customs Service, Department of Narcotics, rescue - all of them anywhere without the dogs. But in the meantime the cat walk by themselves, even visited by a new batch of feed (or to shat in the tray or sneakers). Is there a cat Yuri Kuklachev representatives engaged in socially meaningful activities. The rest of the cats - the narcissistic lazy, selfish and parasites on society.

But what potential! Where you want to get through where you want, and because brain is - it can not deny. No, not such good fail. Talked about as the CIA in the early '60s, conceiving the project Acoustic kitty (Acoustic Kitty). Already from the name you can guess that the cat will be engaged in guinea wiretap negotiating a potential enemy, that is, the Soviet Union. No, the cat did not attempt to teach human language, and then give the general secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. All turned out to be darker (for the cat).

Equipment and training involved in a cat Department of Science and Technology by the CIA. It was his experts found a way to turn the animal into a living listening device. Recommend to owners and cat lovers to stop reading the article, when you come to describe the manipulation of the cat. Cat survived not the most pleasant transaction. He probably would have rather preferred to daily surgical castration, rather than all this. The transmitter and battery were implanted into the animal, and the antenna passes through the tail. The brain also had a few animal ... change, the cat did not feel hungry. Last had to do because, hungry, animal forgot about the duty to his country and began to look for food. After surgery, the cat was fed by force is not to die of starvation.

Office cat at the CIA was short-lived. After training, he was released on the lawn near the Soviet Embassy in Washington ... And a couple of minutes the cat was brought down to death a passing taxi. The project cost $ 20 million. And it's not today's papers of the State Bank USA, and real money. Experts from the archives of the U.S. National Security concurred that the cat still would not last long after that happened to him.

Former CIA officer Victor Marchetti (Victor Marchetti), told reporters: "They literally cut it in half, shoved into all of these devices and sewn back. They have created a monster. "

The sad story of a spy cat ended quite well for the founders of the project. Their work was rewarded. The CIA said: "Work undertaken reflects the enormous contribution of our employees, whose energy and imagination can be an example to all the pioneers of science."

Coincidentally, a year when the project "Acoustic kitty" ended in failure, the screens out the British film "The Spy with a cold nose", where the main role was played by a dog, "equipped" to spy on the "evil empire" (the Soviet Union again, if who do not know). Still, sometimes not leave fiction behind the screen.

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