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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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Well... That's the most evil thing I've ever heard of
You must not have heard about much of the CIA's adventures huh?
well, that's just for spying. I still think ww2 was worse, when they would feed dogs under tanks, so that when deployed in the battlefield, the dogs with explosives strapped would get under enemy tanks and boom
As far as I can remember it was the Soviets that tried this, but because they practiced this with their own tanks, in battle they would run to the Soviet tanks instead (and blow up there). But I can't vouch for how true the story is.
Holy shit :(
That's a normal workday for the CIA at the peak of the Cold War. Apparently getting dosed with acid was something of an occupational hazard in the '50s if you worked for the CIA which might explain some of their more unusual operations.
Like the unibomber
Worse things are happening today with Neuralink.
I would advise not looking into the rest of the mkultra sub-projects then. They only get worse.
Saying that, the one where they built fake brothels with one way mirrors to dose politicians with LSD and then get secrets out of them was objectively kinda funny, in a looneytoons way.
How is this wose than putting a hole into a cow to release methane?
Isn't that done to help the cow? Their stomachs can rupture otherwise