Acoustic Kitty was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) project launched by their Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1960s, which intended to use cats to spy on the Kremlin and Soviet embassies.

2018年8月8日 · “Operation Acoustic Kitty” was a secret plan to turn cats into portable spying devices. However, the CIA only ever produced one Acoustic Kitty because it abandoned the...

Civil Air Transport (CAT) (IATA: CT, ICAO: CAT, call sign: Mandarin) was a Nationalist Chinese airline, later owned by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), that supported United States covert operations throughout East and Southeast Asia.

2017年8月8日 · Cats are infamously disobedient, but the CIA believed that with the right training, they could become spies. The organization also wanted to exploit another of the animal’s traits: curiosity.

2022年8月8日 · The CIA had a similar idea back in the 1960s, except they wanted to create a cyborg superspy out of a cat. The CIA's Office of Technical Research and Office of Research and Development spent five years and an estimated $20 million on "Project Acoustic Kitty," according to Mental Floss .

2013年5月8日 · In the 1960s, the Central Intelligence Agency recruited an unusual field agent: a cat. In an hour-long procedure, a veterinary surgeon transformed the furry feline into an elite spy, implanting a...

In August 1950, the CIA secretly purchased the assets of Civil Air Transport (CAT), an airline that had been started in China after World War II by Gen. Claire L. Chennault and Whiting Willauer. CAT would continue to fly commercial routes throughout Asia, acting in every way as a privately owned commercial airline.

2024年7月27日 · Operation Acoustic Kitty was a CIA spy program aimed at using cats to gather intelligence during the Cold War. Cats underwent surgical implantation of listening devices to record and transmit sound. The project cost an estimated $20 million, according to …

2019年5月22日 · Everyone knows cats cannot be trained. They do their own thing, regardless of what their “owners” might want. So it always has been and so it always will be. But the CIA in the 1960s liked to...

2013年5月8日 · For its first official test, CIA staffers drove Acoustic Kitty to the park and tasked it with capturing the conversation of two men sitting on a bench. Instead, the cat wandered into the...