Acoustic Kitty--CIA version

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:39:18 GMT

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Acoustic Kitty was a CIA project launched by the Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1960s attempting to use cats in spy missions. A battery and a microphone were implanted into a cat and an antenna into its tail. Due to problems with distraction, the cat's sense of hunger had to be removed in another operation. Surgical and training expenses are thought to have amounted to over $20 million.

The first cat mission was eavesdropping on two men in a park outside the Soviet compound on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington, D.C.. The cat was released nearby, but was hit and killed by a taxi almost immediately. Shortly thereafter the project was considered a failure and declared to be a total loss.

CIA recruited cat to bug Russians, Charlotte Edwardes, April 11, 2001, telegraph.co.uk.

Florida MILITARY FAMILIES SPEAK OUT

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:25:16 GMT

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Clip Source: deesings.livejournal.com

I saw an article in one of our local papers this week abou the suicide rate of soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. Coincidentally, a Utah member of Military Families Speak Out sent me this account of a family affected by soldier suicide:

http://eiswert.family.tripod.com
Florida MILITARY FAMILIES SPEAK OUT

http://mfsoflorida.tripod.com

"When someone says my son died fighting for his country, I say,

"No, the suicide bomber who killed my son died fighting for his country."

Father of American Soldier Lance Cpl. Chase J. Comley, USMC, KIA in Iraq

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Acoustic Kitty--CIA version

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Florida MILITARY FAMILIES SPEAK OUT