That Time the CIA Bugged a Cat to Spy on the Soviets
Americans have, for centuries, found creative ways to spy on friends, enemies, and everyone in between.
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 in the United States hatched a covert plan to keep tabs on Russians in Washington, D.C. They would, they decided, deploy surveillance cats—yes, actual cats surgically implanted with microphones and radio transmitters—to slip by security
