The CIA came up with a lot of controversial projects, but this one is by far the cruelest. One super-strange Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operation you may never have heard of is Project Acoustic ...

Misadventure though it was, the agency's Operation Acoustic Kitty was a visionary idea 50 years ahead of its time. By Emily Anthes Published May 8, 2013 6:30 PM EDT Add Popular Science (opens in a new ...

You see, cats are sly and unpredictable. They can slip unnoticed from place to place, watching, listening, wryly judging, surveilling. In an hour-long procedure, a veterinary surgeon transformed the ...

In the 1960s, the CIA’s Directorate of Science & Technology launched a project called ‘Acoustic Kitty’ to spy on Soviet embassies. The idea was to create a feline-machine hybrid, a kind of cyborg cat.

My favorite story about American spying is one I've never been able to verify with the Central Intelligence Agency, and not for lack of trying. At the height of the Cold War, the story goes, officials ...