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The CIA’s $20 million attempt to make a spy cat

In 1964, the Central Intelligence Agency reportedly launched Operation Acoustic Kitty, a plan to use a cat to listen in on conversations between foreign agents and their Soviet handlers in public places. Reports put its cost at twenty million dollars.
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