Ep95: Acoustic Kitty
Ep95: Acoustic Kitty
What happens when the CIA looks at a cat and thinks, “That could be a spy”?
This week on Oldmate & Josh, we dig into Acoustic Kitty — one of the strangest Cold War intelligence projects ever attempted. The idea was simple, if you ignore every obvious problem: surgically turn a cat into a listening device, send it near targets, and let espionage happen.
Because apparently microphones, wires, batteries, animal behaviour, roads, hunger, fear, and the basic personality of cats were all details to sort out later.
We get into the real story, the myths around it, the wider Cold War atmosphere that made ridiculous plans feel reasonable, and why powerful people with huge budgets can somehow make decisions that sound like they were invented by a bored child with a glue gun.
It’s CIA chaos, animal espionage, government logic, Cold War paranoia, and one very unfortunate cat-shaped lesson in “just because you can try something doesn’t mean you should.”
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