Sometimes, a cat is not just a pet, it is a powerful animal that can play a specific role in a specific period. role, such as espionage. The United States once trained cats to be spies for intelligence gathering. However, we know that spies must have smart minds, flexibility, strong willpower and other abilities beyond the reach of ordinary people. Let's take a look at the cute cat at home. Does it really have the qualities of being a spy?

Why can cats be spies?

1. The cat is smart and agile, and has the conditions to be a spy

Everyone knows that cats are very smart, and some cats are spiritual. And most cats are agile and athletic. To this end, the CIA once trained a cat to be a spy and installed an eavesdropping device on its body to try to eavesdrop. Unfortunately, it was the first time to perform a mission. Taxi killed.

2. The specific implementation of cat spy

According to foreign media reports: According to the Freedom of Information Act The released CIA documents revealed that the CIA had experimented with cats as spies and installed eavesdropping devices on them.

Relevant documents confirm the mission of a former CIA spy, pointing out that the CIA used a cat experiment to eavesdrop on the work, and the CIA organized relevant researchers to cut open the cat's abdomen, A bug and a battery are implanted inside, and an antenna is installed in the cat's tail, and relevant training is carried out.

There are also some smart cats in history who are suspected of being spies. The mother cat Freya of the British Chancellor of the Exchequer Osborne's family disappeared in 2009 and was suddenly arrested two years later. Find and send back. For the next few months, Freya wandered between the various agencies of the British government unwittingly. Recently, a British government official said that the cat that disappeared without a trace may have a monitor implanted by another country. Osborne's staff joked that the chancellor's cat could go anywhere. A naval exercise, it's in the Situation Room, and it's more often a tavern frequented by senior British officials. It also went to 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the Prime Minister. Privately, Conservative officials said they suspected other countries were using Freya to spy on British secrets. Because, Freya not only often went to government offices, but also went to the bar where 007 most often digs information.

So cats seem like the perfect spies: they're small, they're secretive, and they're very good at seducing people. Humans will (silly) pet the cats while chatting about secrets. This is why the CIA decided to implant eavesdropping devices in cats and train them to spy on designated locations. Are domestic cats really suitable for spies?

In the CIA experiment, they implanted the instrument into the cat, and it was done with ease. But training cats is no easy task. It's easy enough to lock the cat in one place, but once you've released it, you can despair of the task given to it: the cat will do whatever the trainer wants it to do, unless it's bored. Or it's distracting. Or it's hungry. Also, one needs to understand that for a cat, most of the time it is in these states.  

In the CIA's first assignment to the cat, after a CIA employee released the cat, the cat took a few steps towards the target. , and then decisively eloped with a taxi.  

After spending $20 million and five years, the cat was finally fired. The CIA's final assessment of the failed program was: it was impractical. But the project wasn't completely useless: The CIA discovered through it that cats, creatures, can be trained to travel short distances. But if you really want to be a spy, you have to be those cats who are born with special skills and extraordinary aptitudes.