CIA Operation Acoustic Kitty
The only one (of 15) to survive the procedure escaped the lab and was promptly hit by a car.
this post was submitted on 20 May 2024
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That's what they want you to think.
The CIA has in the past said both this, and also that cat wasn't hit by a car and lived a normal life afterwards. The latter was more recent, so maybe they published misinformation earlier to make it seem like they stopped using cats, or maybe they're just trying to cover up animal crewelty?
Also I don't believe there was 15, maybe you've confused it with the 14 french space cats?
They’re spies, so lying is like 90% of what they do ;-)
I tend to believe the whole project was an ill conceived failure and someone within CIA made up hit-by-a-car story to avoid a lengthy explanation.
Radio transmitter in a cat sounds plausible in 2011 but it would have been a much trickier proposition in 1960. Certainly not impossible but the part I always come back to is the power supply. You either need lots of batteries or a way to activate it externally without a lot of drain before you do.
Covering up animal cruelty. I wouldn’t be surprised if they incinerated the poor things just to make sure there was no chance of the research getting out :-(
I absolutely made that number up 😅 I’ve got a book at home that’s more coffee table curiosity than serious reference material that had some details of the project. I recall that there were numerous failures but couldn’t remember how many, but 14 failures plus one viable was what my brain offered… so I bet you’re right about french space cats!
Honestly that's probably the best possible outcome for it after all it went through
we can rebuild her
Nvmd, a car killed it.
Why not make the surgery a little less invasive and incorporate the power supply, antenna and transmitter into one?
It's the Cold war, technology hasn't been there yet.
If you have a wire going to the transmitter/power supply, just run the antenna wire along with it. No new tech needed.
Did that cat just meow, or say Moscow
I mean cool if you want 18 hours of snoring and butthole licking
if you want 18 hours of .. butthole licking
yeah, who would want that...