Intelligence agencies have long recruited animals. Here, MailOnline takes a look at the mammals, birds, and even reptiles and insects which have served as spies and been accused of espionage.
History has shown that government agencies, over the decades, have undertaken some undeniably bizarre experiments. There was the U.S. government’s plot to project images of Jesus over Cuba during the Cold War; the U.K. military’s WWII-era robotic demon designed to freak out the Italian enemy; and military experiments, in the 1950s, to see if dogs could psychically find landmines. And, the list goes on and on. All of that brings me to a very weird story of the CIA: the sad saga of what became known by a very strange name, as you will soon see. It was an experiment that took place back in the 1960s. The results in this affair, however, were not as positive as they could have been, to say the very least. In fact, they were downright disastrous. The operation was titled “Views on Trained Cats.” Within the agency, however, it was unofficially known as “Acoustic Kitty.” No, I’m not joking. There’s no doubt that during the height of the Cold War, agencies all around the worl