[curmudgeonII]

The CIA would have to be animals to do that to a defenseless cat.

[yooper]

Victor Marchetti is a somewhat unstable element. I'd take anything he says with a grain of salt....

[Nick Danger]

Stuff like this could make me start wearing a tin foil hat. We listened to crap like this about the CIA for decades, and took it seriously, and dismantled our intelligence apparatus. So what happens? We lose 6,000 in a terrorist attack that we didn't see coming.

Now that we're starting to wake up to the fact that there really are bad guys out there, and maybe we might have to do a few bad things ourselves, this croaker from the 1960's appears out of nowhere.

Who the Hell is behind this stuff? Why does a CIA-demonization story from the 1960's appear in a newspaper today? Are we going to be treated to a barrage of this stuff? Whoever writes this stuff can kiss my royal Irish ass.

[11th Earl of Mar]

Finally, a cat with a purpose. And the reson they never patented this idea?

[Pokey78]

Ping.

[Dog Gone]

Now we know what happened to SocksC.

So sad.

[samtheman]

Although this attempt was surely stupid and misquided, today's technology (or perhaps tomorrow's) offers us a chance to actually use critters in spy work. It won't be long before cameras and wireless networking devices will be small enough to implant in the lowly bumble bee, hovering over the ground near cave-entrances, perhaps, sending billions of GPS-stamped pic-packets up to satellite collection devices, giving us thousands of little eyes just-above-the-ground. Far fetched? Perhaps. For now.

[Hemlock]

Project Acoustic Pussy: it's coming over for dinner tonight.

[Hacksaw]

I have noticed my cats (the boys) have been staring oddly at be lately when I am on FreeRepublic... Hmmmmm....

[CWRWinger]

"...and a taxi comes and runs him over."

I wonder if an Arab was driving the taxi?

[JohnBovenmyer]

Wire up some donkeys and slip them into Afghanistan. They'll soon be put to use by the Taliban and we may overhear something significant. It might even work with the four footed variety...

[Gorzaloon]

Are ALL the UK papers utterly so devoid of news that they have to make this supermarket tabloid bullsh7t up?

They have less and less credibility and relevance by the day.

Oh yes, and the Guardian site locks up my browser, too, so I already put it into my HOSTS file..in case I accidently follow a link to it!

Let's stop posting anything from the UK trash press, huh?

[rolling_stone]

Wouldn't you know the government went out and spent tons of money on a cat and got one that didn't have 9 lives...

[zx2dragon]

This particular piece of info was declassified 15 years ago and has been in several books on the history of the CIA.

[DAnconia55]

Just imagine what they can do 40 years later.

And the Stateworshipers cry 'tinfoil'.......

[Timesink]

I can almost buy into this, up to this point:

They found he would walk off the job when he got hungry, so they put another wire in to override that."

I call Barbra Streisand. Just what sort of "wire" would stop a cat from being hungry, especially given mid-60s technology? This guy's a loon.

[RichInOC]

[RIIIIING! RIIIIING!]
"Don't get that, Frank!"
[RIIIIING! RIIIIING!]
[click]
"Meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow meow..."
"Baxter!"

[StoneColdGOP]

"They slit the cat open, put batteries in him, wired him up. The tail was used as an antenna. They made a monstrosity. They tested him and tested him. They found he would walk off the job when he got hungry, so they put another wire in to override that."

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice...