Acoustic Kitty: full transcription
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The environmental and security factors in using this technique in a real foreign situation force us to conclude that, for our purposes, it would not be practical.
A lot of money was spent. They slit the cat open, put batteries in him, wired him up. The tail was used as an antenna. They made a monstrosity. They tested him and tested him. They found he would walk off the job when he got hungry, so they put another wire in to override that.
They took it out to a park and put him out of the van, and a taxi comes and runs him over.
This transcription covers the memo's core technical assessment alongside the most commonly cited firsthand account of the field test from Victor Marchetti. A former CIA technical officer has publicly disputed the taxicab account; both versions are represented in the historical record and neither has been definitively confirmed over the other.
Document: "Views on Trained Cats," CIA Office of Research and Development, March 1967. Declassified 2001.
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