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Re:The CIA's Cold War Plan to Use Stray Cats as Spies by lostlogin on Friday March 29, 2024 @01:42AM (#39861046)
The US military seems to enjoy tormenting animals.

Here is the bat bomb.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb

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Re:The CIA's Cold War Plan to Use Stray Cats as Spies by rl3 on Friday March 29, 2024 @04:04AM (#39861653)
Honorable mention to the explosive rat, as well as Project Pigeon:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_rat

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

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Re:The CIA's Cold War Plan to Use Stray Cats as Spies by e40 on Friday March 29, 2024 @06:34AM (#39862476)
A coworker’s father worked on this project, he says. Been telling the story at parties for 4 decades.
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Re:The CIA's Cold War Plan to Use Stray Cats as Spies by Sakos on Friday March 29, 2024 @08:21AM (#39863167)
Why are you singling out the US? The Soviets used dogs as anti-tank bombs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog

I think using animals for warfare is something we've done as a species for a long time. The US isn't unique in this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_animal#As_living_bomb...

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