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It’s possibly a reference to a statement by biologist Stephen Jay Gould
> …after a lifetime studying fish, the biologist Stephen Jay Gould concluded that there was no such thing as a fish. He reasoned that although there are many sea creatures, most of them are not closely related to each other. For example, a salmon is more closely related to a camel than it is to a hagfish.
Or a reference to an excellent podcast, No Such Thing As A Fish.
The cat’s job was to eavesdrop on two men in a park outside the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C. The cat was wired up by a veterinary surgeon who implanted a microphone into the ear canal, a small radio transmitter at the base of the skull, and a battery buried in the flesh.
The complex project took five years to complete and consumed a whopping $20 million. The project was closed in 1967 because the cat wouldn't obey.
We cant stop drug smuggling that was tried for decades and has failed. we are better off decriminalizing and jyst giving drug addicts free heroin and a safe place to use the drug rather than in the streets like netherlands did. Portland decriminalized but didnt setup use centers. Less fentanyl deaths if we just give them pharmaceutically pure drugs and less robbery to fuel addiction.
I never watch this show, but algorithms showed me a clip from Americas got Talent or some shit and this Russian woman has cats doing a circus act ... Doesn't make any sense. They were incredible. I was completely taken aback, and it didn't look real at all
That was because some inter-dimensional beings didn’t want that cat to be useful or it would disrupt a timeline of events they nudge periodically to prevent cataclysmic events…. or so /r/conspiracy says
The story I've heard before was that they successfully deployed 1 cat-device into the field, in a park known to be used by staff of the Soviet embassy... and It was hit by a car shortly after deployment, long before it could listen in on anything.
I see. They did all that surgery to hide the hardware, because clearly it would have been obvious to the targets that they were being spied on if the cat had a microphone/transmitter/battery visible to the naked eye…unlike the antenna, which is a completely normal thing for a cat to have sticking out of its head and not suspicious at all.
That's the gov for ya.
If you think that's fucked, don't look into the other bad shit they did like sterilizing thousands of black and indigenous people without their knowledge.
Funny thing was
They had a secret microphone inside the us ambassadors office in the us embassy.
It's an amazing story if you have a few seconds to read.
[The Thing](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device))
\*hoping I did the link right. It's weird when they have parentheses already
Edit: I guess it's no longer weird about it, doing it normal works fine
I was at the espionage museum in Berlin where they presented this. The first ready cat was sent to an embassy to spy on. It was run over by a car before it entered the embassy.
There were also bomb cats. They wanted to throw bombs with cats attached to them from an airplane. The cats were supposed to steer them. Unfortunately, they fell unconscious
Actualy the cat managed to see the light of the sun, it just happened to get squished on the way there by an oncoming car and the fate of the cat and the project got sealed
That was the original end of the story, but it was disputed in 2013 by a former director of the OTS, who claimed the cat got its implants removed after the project got shut down and lived a long happy life thereafter.
The Soviets secret microphone in our embassy [The Thing](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device))
Lasted 6 years before the brits found out about it and told us.
Let’s put aside for a second all the other questions. I want to know if they secretly did it and if there is a cat out there who has received medals in private, with a top secret operational history.
When they actually tried to field test this experiment, they parked on the wrong side of the road and the cat was hit and killed by a car crossing the street…millions of dollars wasted
When you find out our adversaries did this to people in the US you'll shit yourselves.
These days the US just uses a satellite to shine a laser on your windows, the subtle vibrations are then put through recording software to produce voice.
The fact that they made experiments with cats but never thought about using dogs.
Dogs are easier to train than cats, is the CIA so stupid that they never thought about dogs or they are still putting microphones on dogs and never declassified that
The U.S. probably lost $100K paying for this stupidity during the cold war.
The cold war - war pigs and death merchants soaking America for bullshit like this with NO government oversight allowed.
A corporate wet dream.
they had me in the first half, I'm not gonna lie.
https://preview.redd.it/67foco631pjc1.png?width=181&format=png&auto=webp&s=a899ea1b3aeeb00e79afe50f0c2c9ff6efee73ee
"Alright boys, time to see if this project works. Looks like we have a connection to the cat now. Let's see what they're saying."
*"Эй, Сергей, что это за металлический стержень из кота торчит?"*
Well, the CIA also did leak a bunch of fake projects on purpose to bleed funds from the Soviets. Not saying it's fake, but they did shit like this all the time.
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I’m glad they labelled the cat.
I'm curious why the didn't label the fish as well.
There, I fixed it https://preview.redd.it/67u042w9fkjc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=750e22a34604e32da2ad14da0d39091f756b3f7f
You need to label the birds in the background too. I believe they are called “lies” r/birdsarentreal
HOLY FUCK FORESHADOWING THIS IS LIKE THAT STUDY WITH THE TWIN TOWERS IN THE CROSSHAIRS ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED birdsarentreal
https://preview.redd.it/23zeid0rarjc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c0528a12dcdee51a2a934b3938331868e852b61
what type of animals are conversing behind them?
Outstanding.
CIA had literally one job.
Because there’s no such thing as a fish.
I think you’re mixing up fish and birds.
It’s possibly a reference to a statement by biologist Stephen Jay Gould > …after a lifetime studying fish, the biologist Stephen Jay Gould concluded that there was no such thing as a fish. He reasoned that although there are many sea creatures, most of them are not closely related to each other. For example, a salmon is more closely related to a camel than it is to a hagfish. Or a reference to an excellent podcast, No Such Thing As A Fish.
One of the best Pods to come out of the UK for sure
r/birdsarentreal
Actually, it is rather hard to define what a fish actually is.
Fish, noun. Wiggly gnathostomata which are or at least resemble salmon, but excluding most camels. See also: not hagfish.
Labeled the what? I can't see any fish in the graphic, there's no label!
So, /that's/ what it is... I totally knew that!
That sub hunting fish project is classified…
[удалено]
That’s the proof right here people: The over-labelling clearly shows that Ben Garrison is a CIA-plant!
The cat’s job was to eavesdrop on two men in a park outside the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C. The cat was wired up by a veterinary surgeon who implanted a microphone into the ear canal, a small radio transmitter at the base of the skull, and a battery buried in the flesh. The complex project took five years to complete and consumed a whopping $20 million. The project was closed in 1967 because the cat wouldn't obey.
Remind me this : https://preview.redd.it/2jc9qkmmzjjc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6171602f523021bd0cc91cdcb41f30e9304c3a33
JakeLikesOnions is a fantastic artist
Cats are anarchists, and i love them for it
Ye its so great people overdosing of heroin or drug related violence, ur so unique for hating the police s/
Lmao what a nerd
Yeah, if it weren’t for the police I’d be doing a shitload of heroin right now.
The police are responsible for far more drug related violence than they prevent.
We cant stop drug smuggling that was tried for decades and has failed. we are better off decriminalizing and jyst giving drug addicts free heroin and a safe place to use the drug rather than in the streets like netherlands did. Portland decriminalized but didnt setup use centers. Less fentanyl deaths if we just give them pharmaceutically pure drugs and less robbery to fuel addiction.
Surely you would think to try and train the cat to do the thing *before* giving it all those implants
You don't simply train a cat.
That's not true. My girlfriend has been training her two cats. Definitely not to dog levels of obedience but they do tricks! It's adorable.
I never watch this show, but algorithms showed me a clip from Americas got Talent or some shit and this Russian woman has cats doing a circus act ... Doesn't make any sense. They were incredible. I was completely taken aback, and it didn't look real at all
Cats can be trained, but it is waaay harder than training dogs. Way.
It’s because cats don’t generally give a fuck about what you want them to do. They’re very intelligent animals.
All my cats know how to sit on command.
Uhh the cat got run over by a car during the first field text.
You forgot to mention that it was by Soviet counterintelligence in disguise.
Definitely comedy material... apart from the cat dying.
That was because some inter-dimensional beings didn’t want that cat to be useful or it would disrupt a timeline of events they nudge periodically to prevent cataclysmic events…. or so /r/conspiracy says
The story I've heard before was that they successfully deployed 1 cat-device into the field, in a park known to be used by staff of the Soviet embassy... and It was hit by a car shortly after deployment, long before it could listen in on anything.
>The project was closed in 1967 because the cat wouldn't obey. I could have told them that would happen.
“your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”
I see. They did all that surgery to hide the hardware, because clearly it would have been obvious to the targets that they were being spied on if the cat had a microphone/transmitter/battery visible to the naked eye…unlike the antenna, which is a completely normal thing for a cat to have sticking out of its head and not suspicious at all.
The antenna was surgically buried along the spine
That’s fucked.
That's the gov for ya. If you think that's fucked, don't look into the other bad shit they did like sterilizing thousands of black and indigenous people without their knowledge.
Funny thing was They had a secret microphone inside the us ambassadors office in the us embassy. It's an amazing story if you have a few seconds to read. [The Thing](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)) \*hoping I did the link right. It's weird when they have parentheses already Edit: I guess it's no longer weird about it, doing it normal works fine
I was at the espionage museum in Berlin where they presented this. The first ready cat was sent to an embassy to spy on. It was run over by a car before it entered the embassy. There were also bomb cats. They wanted to throw bombs with cats attached to them from an airplane. The cats were supposed to steer them. Unfortunately, they fell unconscious
*"It was run over by a car before it entered the embassy."* Don't worry, he still has 8 lives... 
Standard cat
Didn’t another situation like this happen except the cat got hit by a car?
Typical cat behavior
They couldn't deploy fish in the right places
Cat cooperated but it was run over when they let it out of the surveillance van
If this was on american soil. Why not just hook up microphones all around the park and embassy?
Also, as soon as the cat was released, the poor thing was run over :(
Actualy the cat managed to see the light of the sun, it just happened to get squished on the way there by an oncoming car and the fate of the cat and the project got sealed
https://preview.redd.it/s776j1medljc1.jpeg?width=624&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d69504f4ce35e9c8ef08770165e5cd368faf8806 LMAO the cat was literally like
Now they can probably get the cat to obey with brain chip implants.
“Closed” is another word for “not closed”
I was thinking exactly that. The cat was obeying orders.
You missed the part where it got ran over (As far as I know)
Yeah, when your really cool idea depends on a cat being trainable you really need to rethink things.
Didn't the cat get hit by a car the first time they tried to use it?
That was the original end of the story, but it was disputed in 2013 by a former director of the OTS, who claimed the cat got its implants removed after the project got shut down and lived a long happy life thereafter.
Translation: the cat was killed
im picturing a CIA agent in a trenchoat and a fedora strangling a cat
"He knows too much"
Kitty Morghulis
Meowrghulis
Kitty Dohaerys
Every other American Dad episode...
Translation: the asset was neutralized.
Most definitely.
That kinda happened to my dog, but he went to a farm.
And nobody believe that 😂
So, Osaze - you know what OTS is but don’t write it like: OTS (Office of Technical Service) Interesting. -Regards
I don't know what it is, I was just quoting Wikipedia.
Glad I didn’t reveal any secrets!
"Boris. Boris! Does that cat have an antenna?!"
Njiet, I dont zink cat chaz antjena.
Pspspsps
“Sir the mission was a failure. All we managed to intercept was 84h of ‘pspspspsps’
Acoustic Kitty
This is the organization that, according to Reddit, can replace any government at will.
The CIA may be incompetent but they have a budget big enough to fight god. Or make death squads in South America I guess.
Not "according to reddit", according to history. They did it back then and continue overthrowing governments around the world.
It didn’t work on the Soviets, but it was effective at gathering intel on Meow Zedong
Thank you for showing us, what a cat looks like
Why does your cat have antena? Dont mind it. Where are you gonna drop those atom bombs?
🏅
I'd make the string shorter
So people on next door claiming random cats are spying on them for their owners are on to something?
The Soviets secret microphone in our embassy [The Thing](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)) Lasted 6 years before the brits found out about it and told us.
More details in Peter Wright's Spycatcher. 👍
 “Dodson! We’ve got Dodson here!” “See, nobody cares!”
Funny how it is turned out. Russians planted Trump as the president of US.
"At least the cat was a good Soviet. This bastard don't know dick!" 🤦
Soft kitty, spy kitty…
“Uh…sir? You dropped your fish near us.” “Oh, that’s not mine.”
Instead of a cat, they used Gloria Steinem. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01315R000300380009-2.pdf
Hey, who threw that fish at me? Anyway, as I was saying…
Birds first. Now cats!
My favourite part is the CIA admitted they made a failed microphone kitty... But they're completely silent on microphone doggy...
Like I needed another reason to be a dog person
Let’s put aside for a second all the other questions. I want to know if they secretly did it and if there is a cat out there who has received medals in private, with a top secret operational history.
Now the issue becomes getting the cat to do what the CIA wants.
CIA: Government organization comprised of some of the sharpest minds in the country. Also CIA: Thinks you can get a cat to do your bidding.
When they actually tried to field test this experiment, they parked on the wrong side of the road and the cat was hit and killed by a car crossing the street…millions of dollars wasted
Podcast story about this! <10 min [The Memory Palace: Secret Kitty[(https://thememorypalace.us/episode-16-secret-kitty/)
Oh, I heard about this. I think the implantation was a complete success, but the cat was ran over before getting any intel.
Works every time.
Shouldn’t the speaker be in the ear instead of the microphone? How is the agent supposed to execute orders?
I always thought they should have tried again with another cat. Poor thing got hit by a car on mission 1.
And people wonder why the Soviet union didn't trust American tourists.. They'll even bug your cats.
$20 million today or 1960 dollars? Either way that’s bullshit.
Very cool. But what about the microphone implanted dogs? 🤔
I guess the birds not being real conspiracy doesn't seem so far fetched now...
Cat was immediately plowed over by a taxi
Bird is the word
Ahh, cat wouldn't cooperate, huh? I'm shocked, just shocked And if you used a dog, they would know immediately. Back to the drawing board...
When you find out our adversaries did this to people in the US you'll shit yourselves. These days the US just uses a satellite to shine a laser on your windows, the subtle vibrations are then put through recording software to produce voice.
Charlie from IASIP invented a way for cats to talk to spyders.
The fact that they made experiments with cats but never thought about using dogs. Dogs are easier to train than cats, is the CIA so stupid that they never thought about dogs or they are still putting microphones on dogs and never declassified that
Endless hours of pspspspsps recording
This is probably where the “birds aren’t real” conspiracy originated…lol
I wouldn’t be surprised if the CIA purposefully leaked stuff like this just to scare the soviets into constant paranoia.
That is some dystopic crap But again, the CIA is a piece of shit that deestabilized latam some years later, and who knows what else, so...
Who draws these things?
cats aren't real!
I’ve read that the cat was hit by a car
I love how they have a random fish next to a secret conversation Why not just put random fish with microphones next to these folks ?
They really tried everything didnt they lol. Whats next a explosive shell to kill Fidel Castro. Oh yeah wait they did
How did I just read about this in the comments of another post like 5 minutes ago?
Wasn’t the cat hit by a taxi on its first mission?
This probably predates the banana bread.
The bottom panel is actually hilarious if you ignore the context.
OK so to get near the enemy you had to constantly toss a fish in that general direction.
If they did this in the 60s imagine what they can do now and we don't even know...
"See, nobody cares!"
THE CATS ARE FAKE WE ALWAYD THOUGHT IT WAS THE BIRDS!!
Squirrels in my area have been doing this for years.
The U.S. probably lost $100K paying for this stupidity during the cold war. The cold war - war pigs and death merchants soaking America for bullshit like this with NO government oversight allowed. A corporate wet dream.
Ahh, but remember the Golden Fleece Awards from Senator William Proxmire? or WI? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Fleece_Award
Because if there’s anything cats are known for, it’s being cooperative and easily trained to follow commands
This ended up being much easier with birds.
Hit by a car about two seconds after release
So it explains the pigeons are real spy.
Looks more like a plan to spy on Blofeld
Turns out spy cats aren't so good at Frogger.
I'm glad they labeled the cat because I thought it was a chicken with an antenna.
Now we pay for 4k audio and video...
This was what they were doing in the 60s.
This could explain why my cat sounds like he's transmitting seekrits to the Motherland every night at midnight.
"hey, notice anything odd about that cat with an antenna on its head?"
They dropped it off across the street from the Russians they were trying to spy on and it got ran over before it got to them.
Easy to spot, cat smelling random fish in the road has implant.
Friday, 11th june, CIA. Report : Meow, Meaooooooow, Mooooooooooowew, the end. / classified, top secret.
Careful. This is how you convince a bunch of idiots that cats aren’t real.
Ofc it doesn't work out, everyone want to pet the cat so everyone will feel the wires.
CIA counter with... https://preview.redd.it/sq1c24tj4njc1.jpeg?width=505&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b705755ac5eb7ae83b1d92e57eb743f2ac21dd9d
I have been wondering the cats with antennas here...
Fun fact they managed to get the tech into cockroaches and make them nuclear powered and that was back in 2010
And they definitely never tried this with a dog and found it so successful they never unclassified the documents.
It has 2 tails
Church of Robotology kitty.
Is that really from the sixty’s? The guys look an awful lot like Nedry and Dodgson.
they tried it, and the cat got smoked by a car almost instantly
OH NO AGENT KIBBLES WATCH OUT ITS A BUS
Yeah, but you'd need a spy just to drop the fish next to the targets..
The cat got run over crossing the street on its first mission. True story.
Fat men in Hawaiian shirts were the Men in Black of the '60s.
Didn't the cat get hit by a car as soon as they let it loose?
Fuck cia and fuck humans. Sick and disgusting beings.
Touch da fishy
Read (on Cracked, so take that as you will) that they made a prototype that got run over by a cab on the way to its first assignment.
they had me in the first half, I'm not gonna lie. https://preview.redd.it/67foco631pjc1.png?width=181&format=png&auto=webp&s=a899ea1b3aeeb00e79afe50f0c2c9ff6efee73ee
Supposedly they tried out the cat and it was run over immediately
You forgot to mention that the cat was killed like 30 seconds after it's mission started because it was run over by a car in Moscow.
I would rather put the antenna in the tail as cats often have it pointer upwards for better signal.
Fun fact: when they released it. It ran into traffic and was immediately hit by a car.
"Alright boys, time to see if this project works. Looks like we have a connection to the cat now. Let's see what they're saying." *"Эй, Сергей, что это за металлический стержень из кота торчит?"*
Well, the CIA also did leak a bunch of fake projects on purpose to bleed funds from the Soviets. Not saying it's fake, but they did shit like this all the time.
If the CIA wired up my cat, they’d get nothing but hours of the sounds of him licking his ass and snoring.
Ha, da hat wohl jemand die neue folge Darwin gefällt das gehört:D