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Operation Acoustic Kitty: The CIA spent about $15 million surgically implanting a microphone in a cat's ear, a transmitter under its skin, and an antenna through its tail to spy on Soviet conversatio… (lemmy.nz)

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Full title: Operation Acoustic Kitty: The CIA spent about $15 million surgically implanting a microphone in a cat's ear, a transmitter under its skin, and an antenna through its tail to spy on Soviet conversations

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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

A cat? Gaurenteed they are going to fuck up whatever plan you have in mind. They can sense what you want them to do and the fuck you part of their brain is instantly activated. Whomever thought this up knew jack about cats.

[-] mobyduck648@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah like not supporting this equipping animals with cybernetic enhancements nonsense, but did it not occur to any of them that dogs exist?

[-] summercatcouncil@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

They did. Project got canceled because of problems with the training and that cats was killed by environmental stuff like cars.

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