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Was Larry the Cat spying on Trump? Is Larry Acoustic Kitty?

 
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Was Larry the Cat spying on Trump? Is Larry Acoustic Kitty?
President Donald Trump has just encountered the first real complication of his important London visit: a sleepy cat.

But it wasn’t some ordinary cat — it was Larry, the “chief mouser” of Downing Street, who has lasted longer in the building than some British leaders.

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Operation Acoustic Kitty: The CIA's Would-Be Cat Spy

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This was Operation Acoustic Kitty, a top-secret plan to turn a cat into a living, walking surveillance machine. The leaders of the project hoped that by training the feline to go sit near foreign officials, they could eavesdrop on private conversations.

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The project made even hardened operatives squeamish. In 2001, a former CIA agent gave The Telegraph newspaper some more details about the animal. "They slit the cat open, put batteries in him, wired him up. The tail was used as an antenna. They made a monstrosity," he said.

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06/05/2019 01:23 AM

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Re: Was Larry the Cat spying on Trump? Is Larry Acoustic Kitty?
Haha.

When I saw the picture of Larry under the chassis, I immediately wondered if he might be trained to plant some kind of device.

For a moment there, I really wondered if SS would find it necessary to check it out. In this political climate, I'd definitely be suspicious of clandestine felines...

...especially ones that just so happened to make the news cycle only a few days before, in a very cute, innocent sort of way.

damned

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Re: Was Larry the Cat spying on Trump? Is Larry Acoustic Kitty?
"For Anthes, though, Acoustic Kitty is only one in a long-line of military cyborg creations, one that's been unrestrained by moral considerations. "We can make tiny flying cyborgs--and a whole lot more," she writes. "Engineers, geneticists, and neuroscientists are controlling animal minds in different ways and for different reasons, and their tools and techniques are becoming cheaper and easier for even us nonexperts to use. Before long, we may all be able to hijack animal bodies. The only question is whether we'll want to."

Uhhh...
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"For Anthes, though, Acoustic Kitty is only one in a long-line of military cyborg creations, one that's been unrestrained by moral considerations. "We can make tiny flying cyborgs--and a whole lot more," she writes. "Engineers, geneticists, and neuroscientists are controlling animal minds in different ways and for different reasons, and their tools and techniques are becoming cheaper and easier for even us nonexperts to use. Before long, we may all be able to hijack animal bodies. The only question is whether we'll want to."

Uhhh...
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'Uhhh' is right!


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