{"id":285,"date":"2007-05-28T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=285"},"modified":"2007-05-28T11:00:51","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T11:00:51","slug":"acoustickitty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/acoustickitty\/","title":{"rendered":"Acoustic Kitty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/alex\/CeilingCat.png!\nI heard about this a long time ago but it's a story that bears repeating.  At the height of the Cold War in the mid-60's, both the KGB and the CIA tried a lot of different spying schemes, but there's no record of pet-hacking by the Russians.  Yep, CIA engineers and vets (?) retrofitted a common housecat to be a mobile bug in the KGB headquarters.  They put in advanced listening equipment, replaced its tail with an antenna, and subverted its hunger impulse.  After an estimated $20 million invested in the project, dubbed Acoustic Kitty, and extensive tests they went to release the cat on the streets of Moscow near the KGB headquarters only to see it run over by a taxi.\n\"This article\":<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2001\/11\/04\/wcia04.xml\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2001\/11\/04\/wcia04.xml<\/a> in The Telegraph reminded me of the story, although I'd always heard that the cat was run over by a bus.  A bus would've been funnier.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[78,86],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-comedy","tag-conspiracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}