Around the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis in the early 1960s, there were reports that the Soviet Union was spending millions of rubles in extreme projects involving psychic warfare, mind-control, teleportation, and even animal soldiers.
The CIA was determined to keep up and get an edge over the Communists, so they came up with their own unusual research and development projects, and a new program for non-human operative spies was eventually born.
Launched by the Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Science & Technology, the operation involved using cats as espionage agents.
Intelligence agents figured the Soviets would never suspect the graceful creatures, which would then get close enough to marked operatives to record or transmit private conversations.
However, it turns out there is a good reason why cats couldn’t possibly make decent undercover elements…