Project Acoustic Kitty

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Project Acoustic Kitty was a Cold War-era espionage project launched by the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1960s. The initiative aimed to surgically implant microphones, batteries, and antennae into domestic cats to use them as mobile, covert listening devices to spy on Soviet embassies. The project was ultimately cancelled in 1967 due to the extreme difficulty of training cats to follow instructions and the high cost of the operations.