The CIA came up with a lot of controversial projects, but this one is by far the cruelest. One super-strange Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operation you may never have heard of is Project Acoustic ...

Misadventure though it was, the agency's Operation Acoustic Kitty was a visionary idea 50 years ahead of its time. By Emily Anthes Published May 8, 2013 6:30 PM EDT Add Popular Science (opens in a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The CIA tried to train cat spies. It didn't go well. Here’s the scene: A man wearing a trench coat and a fedora sits on a park ...

You see, cats are sly and unpredictable. They can slip unnoticed from place to place, watching, listening, wryly judging, surveilling. In an hour-long procedure, a veterinary surgeon transformed the ...

My favorite story about American spying is one I've never been able to verify with the Central Intelligence Agency, and not for lack of trying. At the height of the Cold War, the story goes, officials ...

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THE CIA tried to uncover the Kremlin's deepest secrets during the 1960s by turning cats into walking bugging devices, recently declassified documents show. In one experiment during the Cold War a cat, ...

The popular image of the CIA is one of technological mastery - spies with degrees in nuclear physics wielding state-of-the-art equipment, permitting them to look into the furthest and darkest corners ...

In the 1960s, the CIA’s Directorate of Science & Technology launched a project called ‘Acoustic Kitty’ to spy on Soviet embassies. The idea was to create a feline-machine hybrid, a kind of cyborg cat.

Thomas Mulligan investigates the bizarre Cold War initiative known as Operation Acoustic Kitty, where feline subjects were ...