More than 6 decades ago, specifically in 1964, 5 dolphins were caught and trained to become 3 consecutive champions in an American TV program called “Flipper”. The program achieved great popularity, and dolphins became the love of American children. Almost at the same time, the dolphin, this maritime creature, which was bound in a pleasant and entertaining manner during the Fleber program, became the hero of another more exciting adventure in the CIA laboratories.
The CIA has made its best to the dolphins as part of its regime in the Cold War. This was revealed by a document that was partially removed from the 1976 documents on the training of marine dolphins for military and intelligence targets for the purposes of collecting information from coastal areas, and perhaps more than that.
It is not only the dolphins that international intelligence services tried to exploit and implicate in their conflicts, so many non -human creatures, whether they live in land, sea, or air, have not escaped attempts to exploit armies and international intelligence services.
During the First World War, the British army tried to train Nawras birds to defecate the perspectives of German submarine, to impeding the vision of submarine crews. This attempt was not completely successful, unlike the employment of the trained pigeons to carry encrypted messages through the fighting lines, as the British army had about 20,000 birds in service by 1918.
During World War II, the world has known the organized and wide -ranging use of dogs in detecting mines, explosives and other sensory tasks, a practice that still exists today. During the Vietnam War, the US Navy began its marine mammal training program, which remained enveloped with a framework of secrecy until the early nineties. The US Navy still runs a special program for “animal service” based in the naval base in San Diego, California, where marine animals trained in banned waters are patrolling and searching for suspicious objects.
To strange, insects were not handed over from attempts to recruit intelligence services. A report issued in 1972 refers to the efforts of the US military laboratories to exploit the “sensory capabilities of insects” such as bed bugs, mosquitoes and ticks to detect people. Many intelligence services around the world are still investing in animal training programs and employing their sensory capabilities for military and intelligence purposes.
“Cats” customers for “CIA”
In fact, the CIA was famous for its desperate attempts to be creative in spying in the 1960s. The brutality and cruelty of these attempts were evident during an operation known as the “ACOUSTIC KITY”. As “Tom Vanderbilt”, the American writer, wrote to Smithsonianmag “at the time:” With the aim of spying on the opponents of the Cold War, the American government has published non -human agents, such as the crows, the bathroom and even cats. “
The magazine indicates that this project was never the subject of a hearing in Congress, but some documents and sources from within the intelligence corridors indicate that the project was real. The US Intelligence Agency believed that, under appropriate training, cats could turn some effort into “spies”. The agency also wanted to take advantage of the “curiosity” feature in cats, which will not make anyone doubt the presence of a cat somewhere.
The plan was built on the assumption that a cat with wires to record the sound will easily be able to come and go without noticing or doubting anyone, and using audio signals, can be controlled to move and reach the place where she can record the required sounds, such as conversations between Soviet leaders.
The creation of a high -tech cat was not a simple or easy task in the era of primitive audio recording and computers that have reached a room size, and it is more difficult here that cats should continue to look natural cats without strange bumps or scars that raise doubts.
To achieve this, the Central Intelligence Agency created a 3/4 -inch transmitter to place it at the base of the cat skull surgically, and when the cats infiltrate the devices planted in the cat’s body, the cats will be able to eavesdrop on the activities to be monitored.
The same project was referred to by “Jeffrey T -Richson”, the American author and academic researcher who specializes in studying how to collect intelligence information, in his book “The Wizards of Langley”, the first book that chronicles the efforts of the CIA intense to exploit science and technology for espionage purposes.
It is estimated that the US agency pumped about 10 million dollars in the design, operation and training of the first cats within the project, but the major problem that officials faced here is that there was no way to control the movement of cats or restrict them in the desired way, as the cats were wandering when they were bored, dispersed or hungry.
The cat’s hunger problems were treated with other surgeries. Estimates indicate that the expenditures of surgery and additional training led to the raising of the total cost to $ 20 million.
All of these costs, training and efforts made officials think that the cat is finally ready to start carrying out its mission in the real world, and when it was time to start the mission, CIA agents released their agent from the back of a truck and saw him impatiently as he set out on his mission. The cat rushed towards the embassy, but what happened would not have occurred to the intelligence men. Before the cat arrived at the embassy, it collided with a passing taxi and died before it started carrying out its desired mission.
The CIA ultimately canceled the project, and according to partially revised documents at the archives of George Washington University, the agency concluded that despite the effort and imagination of those with the idea of using cats in spying, it will not be practical to continue to try to train cats for spying purposes due to its difficulty and high cost, as well as its ultimately unprecedented returns.
Correcting dolphins
It does not stop at cats. In August 2015, press reports reported that the Palestinian Hamas movement discovered that the Israelis used dolphins to spy. According to the Palestinian reports, the Israeli occupation has recruited a pet, which is the dolphin, and established photography equipment and spy devices on its back.
As we indicated, this was not the first time that dolphins were used to spy. For the surprise, dolphins’ missions were not limited to spying only, as the American navy used it formerly in mine removal.
Moreover, US officials have tried to use the rhinooroscopy dolphins to launch underwater attacks against enemy ships. There were also tests about whether dolphins could carry sensors to monitor Soviet nuclear submarines or search for radioactive or biological weapons from nearby facilities.
It came during a document published on the “CIA” website on the second of November 1964 under the title “Project Oxygas” saying: “The agency and the Navy spent a great deal of time and money in the development of the project, but the results achieved were” marginal “at best.
For example, the cost of delivering swimmers and specialized equipment alone may exceed about $ 5 million, and the result is not satisfactory enough. Despite this, the document confirmed that “progress in the process encourages more attention to this project. Although it is not possible to expect the dolphin to replace the man in the water completely, perhaps the dolphin could have provided a large part of our human efforts.”
By 1967, the CIA was spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on 3 intelligence programs, including training and use of dolphins, birds, cats and dogs to become clients. In the same context, a report of the British Guardian newspaper states that the American navy trained the dolphins and the lions of the sea since the Vietnam War, as part of the marine mammal use program, where nearly 70 dolphin was trained and 30 lions at the San Diego base.
Dolphins and the lions of the sea are characterized by intelligence and the ability to learn and keep up with exercises, and its natural senses outperformed the capabilities of any machine or computer established by humans. The dolphin, in addition to its ability to dive in a large depth, has the possibility of “locating echo”, which allows them to discover the places of mines buried under the water.
As for the lions, it has an excellent sight, and it has helped the American army find some lost equipment. The Guardian report shows, for example, that the dolphins were already used to help remove mines in the Arabian Gulf during the Gulf wars and the United States invaded Iraq in 2003.
The use of dolphins in wars and human conflicts still exists. In April 2019, Norwegian fishermen reported an abnormal whale and continues to chase their boats unusual. Soon it was found that there is a strange saddle wrapped around the whale body, on which “St. Petersburg’s equipment” was written, which sparked new speculation about a special operations program for marine mammals under the administration of the Russian navy.
Later in 2022, Radio “NBR” published a report on the use of the Russian army, especially trained, to defend an important naval base off the Crimea. The report added that there are pictures of satellite satellites showing the presence of dolphins at the entrance to the port of Sevastopol, which hosts the “most important” naval base for the Russian navy in the Black Sea.
This was not a precedent, it is known that the Soviet Navy has managed many programs to use marine mammals during the Cold War, including training of dolphins near Sevastopol. The “NBR” report adds that this particular unit moved to the Ukrainian army when the Soviet Union collapsed, but the unit remained ineffective until Russia regained it after it included the Crimea in 2014, and it revived the program again.
Even the bathroom was not delivered!
There were many stories and accounts that explain the reason for choosing a bathroom as a symbol of peace, but perhaps these stories and novels were not convincing enough for military officials and intelligence men, who decided to insert the peaceful bird in wars, conflicts and spying. The use of the bathroom in communications is due to thousands of years, even before the appearance of the telegraph lines, as the bathroom was reaching messages from one place to another, no matter how long the distance between them was.
After connecting his message, the bathroom has a special ability that enables him to find his way back to the first point from which he started, carrying the other side. But the mission of the bathroom in helping people to communicate was not limited to “peaceful” communication. In the First World War, the bathroom began to collect intelligence information.
By World War II, there was a secret branch of British intelligence that runs “secret bathroom service”, the mission of this branch was to drop birds in a canopy container over Europe. The bathroom was already able to successfully carry out the required task, as more than a thousand pigeons returned with messages that include details of German rocket launch sites and radar stations. After the war, the British Intelligence Sub -Bath Committee stopped, while the CIA continued to exploit the strength of the bathroom.
The documents reveal how the CIA trained to carry out secret tasks to photograph sensitive sites within the Soviet Union. According to the BBC, the process of using the bathroom in spying during the seventies was called “Tacana”, “during which the bathroom was provided with small cameras to take pictures automatically. The CIA here tried to take advantage of the decisive feature in the bathroom, which is that it has an amazing ability to find a way back to the homeland no matter how far away.
The documents revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency also trained a crowd to deliver and restore small things weighing 40 grams of the windows of the buildings that cannot be reached, and the agency also tried to train Canadian falcons and parrots, but among all these factions, the bathroom was proven alone, unfortunately, that it is the most effective.
By the mid -seventies, the agency began carrying out a series of experimental missions, one of which was above a prison and the other over the naval headquarters in Washington, DC. The bathroom is provided with cameras, one of which is two thousand dollars and weighed only 35 grams. The pictures taken by the bathroom already showed significantly clear details of people walking and parked cars in the courtyard of the sea headquarters in Washington, DC.
Experts found that the quality of the images was higher than those produced by the industrial spy satellites operating at that time. The intended task was to use a pigeon against “priority” intelligence targets within the Soviet Union. The documents indicated that birds were to be secretly shipped to Moscow, but no more details were known about this task.
