投稿者 佐藤雅彦 日時 2001 年 11 月 04 日 15:35:59:
●1960年代、CIAはソ連政府の秘密を盗むために、ネコに盗聴器を
組み込んでクレムリン界隈を歩かせるという情報傍受を本気で
試みていたそうな……。イルカ魚雷というのは聞いたことがある
けど、盗聴器ネコとは……。おそらくドラエモンの最も原始的な
プロトタイプなんでしょうな。（藁
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CIA recruited cat to bug Russians
By Charlotte Edwardes
(Filed: 04/11/2001)
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/04/wcia04.xml&sS
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THE CIA tried to uncover the Kremlin's deepest secrets during the 1960s by
turning cats into walking bugging devices, recently declassified documents
show.
In one experiment during the Cold War a cat, dubbed Acoustic Kitty, was wired
up for use as an eavesdropping platform. It was hoped that the animal - which
was surgically altered to accommodate transmitting and control devices -
could listen to secret conversations from window sills, park benches or
dustbins.
Victor Marchetti, a former CIA officer, told The Telegraph that Project
Acoustic Kitty was a gruesome creation. He said: "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."
Mr Marchetti said that the first live trial was an expensive disaster. The
technology is thought to have cost more than £10 million. He said: "They took
it out to a park and put him out of the van, and a taxi comes and runs him
over. There they were, sitting in the van with all those dials, and the cat
was dead."
The document, which was one of 40 to be declassified from the CIA's closely
guarded Science and Technology Directorate - where spying techniques are
refined - is still partly censored. This implies that the CIA was embarrassed
about disclosing all the details of Acoustic Kitty, which took five years to
design.
Dr Richelson, who is the a senior fellow at the National Security Archive in
Washington, said of the document: "I'm not sure for how long after the
operation the cat would have survived even if it hadn't been run over."
The memo ends by congratulating the team who worked on the Acoustic Kitty
project for its hard work. It says: "The work done on this problem over the
years reflects great credit on the personnel who guided it . . . whose energy
and imagination could be models for scientific pioneers."
By coincidence, in 1966, a British film called Spy With a Cold Nose featured
a dog wired up to eavesdrop on the Russians. It was the same year as the
Acoustic Kitty was tested.
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